Oh look - the 'empty Venezuelan shelves' are in New York

Oh look - the 'empty Venezuelan shelves' are in New York

By Lucas Koerner
Friday, Apr 15, 2016


Iconic Photo of Shortage-Ridden Venezuelan Supermarket Taken in New York

A report by the Spanish website FCINCO has revealed that a photo widely circulated by international media as a depiction of chronic shortages in Venezuela was actually taken in New York in 2011.

The now iconic photograph, which shows a woman in a supermarket gazing at empty shelves, was reposted by news outlets hundreds of times over the last three years as evidence of Venezuela’s economic crisis.

However, a closer examination of the photo demonstrates that it was taken by Reuters photographer Allison Joyce in a New York supermarket on the eve of Hurricane Irene with the caption, “A shopper passes by empty shelves while looking for bottled water at a Stop and Shop at Rockaway Beach in New York, August 26, 2011.”


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The original high resolution photo. Original caption: "A shopper passes
empty shelves while looking for bottled water at a Stop and Shop at
Rockaway Beach in New York, August 26, 2011. As North Carolina braced
on Friday for a direct hit from Hurricane Irene, cities along the East Coast
were on alert and millions of beach goers cut short vacations to escape
the powerful storm. With more than 50 million people potentially in Irene's
path, residents stocked up on food and water and worked to secure
homes, vehicles and boats. States, cities, ports, oil refineries and nuclear
plants scrambled to activate emergency plans." (Allison Joyce/Reuters)
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The image was first erroneously associated with Venezuela by several small blogs in 2012 and 2013, but only in 2014 did it begin to circulate massively, including among prominent news media such as El Nacional, Prensa Libre, La Patilla, Entorno Inteligente, El Nuevo Siglo, Mercopress, Elsalvador.com and Ahora Visión.

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