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WAR PHOTOGRAPHER WHO SURVIVED LEUKAEMIA EXPOSED AS A FAKE
Eduardo Martins passed off photos of British surfer as himself and some of his war zone pictures were stolen.
[1] The compelling photos that Eduardo Martins took from some of the world’s worst war zones earned
him a growing reputation, glowing interviews, space in some of the world’s biggest media outlets and more
than 120,000 followers on Instagram.
People loved the story of the handsome blond 32-year-old Brazilian surfer, who survived leukaemia
[5] then found new meaning in photographing conflict. His dramatic images of war zones were published by the
Wall Street Journal, Vice and the BBC.
But there was just one problem: it was a lie. An investigation by BBC Brasil has revealed Martins
stole photos of a British surfer called Max Hepworth-Povey and passed them off as himself.
The BBC’s Brazilian site first published an interview along with photos and videos supposedly shot
[10] by Martins in July, then revealed his scam after an investigation by a Lebanon-based reporter, Natasha
Ribeiro. The scale of the deception, which emerged in recent days, has sent shockwaves through Brazilian
photographic circles.
As his story began to unravel, reporters made contact with the Brazilian photographer Fernando
Costa Netto, who had been talking to Martins on the internet for over a year and had published an interview
[15] with him on the Brazilian surfing site Waves.
According to the BBC, Costa Netto inadvertently told Martins that suspicions were circulating that
he was fake – he told the Guardian he had not warned Martins. He then received a final message, which he
shared with Waves. “I am in Australia. I took the decision to pass a year in a van. I am going to cut
everything, including internet. I want to be in peace, we will see each other when I return,” he wrote. “A big
[20] hug.”
Costa Netto, who had been in touch with Martins over plans to stage an exhibition of his work, told
the Guardian in an email that he was deeply disappointed. “I have more pity than anger,” he said. “There is
a certain deception with human beings, to trick people is ugly.”
Getty Images said in a statement they had removed all the work purporting to be by Martins.
[25] “Eduardo Martins… was identified as a collaborator and content supplier for one of our partners
who has already been notified about this infraction. While we work together with all our internal
departments to urgently clarify this issue, we are removing all the material involved from the air,” a
spokesman said in an email.
In his interview with Costa Netto for Waves, published in July, Martins said he had leukaemia at 18
[30] and had spent seven years in treatment. He told Costa Netto he was currently in Mosul, Iraq, had
accompanied the Free Syrian Army in 2015 and had even been grazed by a shot in Aleppo.
“I became a conflict zone photographer,” Martins said in the interview. “I found what I really
wanted as a photographer.” [...]
Disponível em: <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/05/war-photographer-eduardo martins-survived-leukaemiaexposed- fake>. Acesso em: 14 set. 2017. Adaptado.
No trecho “Costa Netto, who had been in touch with Martins over plans to stage an exhibition of his work, told the Guardian in an email that he was deeply disappointed.” (Linhas 21-22), o pronome “he” em destaque refere-se a:
