[chasil]

The article goes on to state that the Sony competition refused to acknowledge the withdrawal.

The author traveled to the ceremony at his own expense, found that he was not allocated time to speak, then went onstage unannounced to explain his refusal, at which point all physical evidence of his work was removed from the facility, again without comment.

I agree that Sony could have saved itself trouble by requiring the raw camera footage with verifiable exif data.

[cobertos]

Almost sounds like the collective decision making process of the awards organization were in denial that the industry at large is changing.

Feels dystopian that they would just, scrub the winning work from the website and physical location without comment, pretending as if it didn't happen.

[freetime2]

I feel like the guy behaved pretty indecently, and to reward him with more attention would encourage others to behave similarly in the future, and detract from the other winners who participated in the contest in good faith.

[ImPostingOnHN]

I feel like he didn't behave indecently at all, and thus everything you said which follows, is not, in fact, the case

the fact that he was able to enter at all with a non-photo is proof that Sony is in the wrong, and despite their coverup, is not, in fact, prepared to deal with "black-hat artists" in this space

when an inadequacy makes itself apparent, the decent thing to do is acknowledge it, thank anyone who helped you see it, and try to make it right – Sony did none of these things, and thus are the "indecent" ones here

[hgsgm]

What is verifiable EXIF data? The submission was simulating a 100 year old photo. There could never be verifiable EXIF data for that. Sony didn't care; they liked the creativity.

Sony problem was in not catching someone who wanted to embarrass them. There's not a good way to detect that in advance.

[chasil]

The image was submitted digitally, so if it was originally antique, there would be a digitization stage, scanner or camera.

Sony makes cameras; signing the image in the exif with a public key would establish authenticity.

This event isn't likely to spur that change, but it may well come.