Vice ran a piece yesterday about a guy who’s colorizing photos of people murdered by the Khmer Rouge - somehow they ignored the fact that he’s *photoshopping smiles* on them https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dmpm/mugshots-people-arrested-by-khmer-rouge-cambodian-genocide
https://twitter.com/theycallmelyd/status/1381005057936785413
Another one.

( @AHUNGRYMOUTH managed to find the original in the genocide museum’s archive: http://archives.tuolsleng.gov.kh/Documents/Deta …)
It looks like this author wrote about this retoucher last month and again: a whole bunch of editorialized mugshots without ever mentioning it https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdnny/colorized-mugshots-women-1920s-australia
He saw this one and thought “turn that frown upside down”
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