Emmanuel Macron, for instance, received flack for the extensive retouching of his official presidential portrait in 2007, then UK culture secretary James Purnell was pasted into pictures of the opening of a new development at a hospital, having turned up late to the actual event.īut none of these gaffes quite eclipses the efforts of Vauxhall MP Kate Hoey, who in the run up to the 2017 General Election had her Liberal Democrat challenger George Turner erased from a photograph of the candidates together at an event. Morrison joins an illustrious list of politicians who have sacrificed their dignity at the altar of Photoshop.

Here they are in all their glory – my footwear of choice whenever I can get out of a suit. Message to my Department (PM&C): I didn’t ask for the shoeshine, but if you must Photoshop, please focus on the hair (lack thereof), not the feet! 😀 Morrison’s gleaming white shoes were not only improbably clean, but appeared to have been carelessly jammed on to his legs with the aid of digital retouching – giving the impression that the prime minister had two left feet. To his credit, Morrison was quick to respond, tweeting a photo of his actual, less than sparkling sneakers. Innocent enough, you might think – until you looked at his feet.

The image, taken from Morrison’s official website, depicted the politician posing alongside his wife, children and dog, beaming into the camera against a backdrop of sunlit greenery. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum storiesĪustralian PM Scott Morrison is no stranger to controversy, but this time it would be wrong to accuse him of putting his foot in it: in a bizarre instance of image manipulation, someone else appears to have done that for him. This week, a heartwarming photograph of Morrison and his family went viral for all the wrong reasons. Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world.

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