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New York Magazine put Mayor Mamdani’s team on its cover. One aide was erased.
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Most news organisations have guidelines that forbid digitally altering photography to remove people from pictures.
PHOTO: SARA NAOMI LEWKOWICZ/NYTIMES
Katherine Rosman
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NEW YORK – The creative team at New York Magazine was excitedly working on a splashy cover photograph of Mr Zohran Mamdani, the city’s incoming mayor, with the members of his inner circle fanned around him.
The image was shot by celebrity portrait photographer Mark Seliger on Dec 17. But the next day, the magazine faced a crisis.
