Its been seven days since the deadly attack by the Alshabab at the Dusit D2 Hotel and the storm that fell on The New York Times for publishing gruesome pictures of the raid, some of the pictures have now found their way to the auctioneer’s hammer.
A Kenyan photo journalist Mr Kabir Dhanji, who has worked for some of the biggest international media houses, has decided to sell the pictures for as much as Sh50,000 per photo through Getty Images.
Mr Dhanji has worked across Africa, covering and documenting the continent.The international journalist has put a price on the lifeless bodies of innocent people that Kenyans online were campaigning to be pulled down.
The photos were found being auctioned and credit given to AFP.
This comes after Kenyans angrily campaigned for the removal of the photos by the NewYork times.
The paper has largely been unapologetic despite a demand by the Media Council of Kenya and ordinary Kenyans to pull down the gory images.
Mr Marc Lacey, NYT national editor,the decision to publish the picture had split the newsroom: “To give you a sense of how difficult these decisions are, there are people in the newsroom who felt in retrospect that we shouldn’t have run the Nairobi photo.”
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