The library of fake travel photos in Asia
Candlelit monks in Bagan. Fishermen throwing nets over their heads outside Hoi An. Flying chickens in Indonesia. If you've scrolled travel photography online, you've seen these images a hundred times — and for good reason: most of them are staged. Here's the first library cataloguing the most-faked travel photos across Asia (and a bit of Africa), country by country, with the common-sense tells that give them away.
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