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Photographers Angry with Nat Geo for Posting Train Track Photo


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National Geographic is being heavily criticized by photographers across the globe for posting a train track portrait on their 74.9 million follower Instagram account. This, less than a month after the last widely-reported train track photoshoot death took over the headlines.

The photo was posted to the main @natgeo account yesterday, and since then photographers have been reaching out to PetaPixel to point it out, and venting their ire in the photo’s comments.

Train track photography is incredibly dangerous—as this TODAY Show segment clearly demonstrated—and photographers are upset that a photographic institution like National Geographic would offer a tacit approval of this type of photography by leaving out any sort of warnings, or even confirming that the photograph was taken legally on train tracks that were not active.

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