Ryan Duffin Lights Up Our LGBTQ Lives May 10, 2021|
Ryan Duffin is the emcee of enlightenment. His photography bends photons until they blanket his models with a rapturous shimmer. Duffin’s mission is as ambitious as it is direct: to “make them look like pop stars, even if they aren’t already.”
In an interview with
It’s Nice That, Duffin brings his process out of the closet and into the glorious ultraviolet. “There’s this magic spot where the sunlight bounces off of the surrounding glass building and hits people from all sides, making them appear to have an ethereal glow.”
Three friends of the alleged University of Virginia rape victim are growing more skeptical about her account, saying they have doubts about information she gave them and why she belatedly tried to get herself deleted from the Rolling Stone article that engulfed their campus in controversy.
The friends say among their concerns is the fact that the woman, named only as “Jackie” in the article, gave them a cellphone number so they could text a man she said she was seeing around the time she alleged she was gang-raped at a fraternity house.
Eventually, the friends ended up with three numbers for the man. All are registered to Internet services that enable people to text without cellphone numbers but also can be used to redirect calls to different numbers or engage in spoofing, according to multiple research databases checked by The Washington Times.
the reporter nor the magazine ever even spoke with the accused. now comes a scathing and lengthy review from the columbia school of journalism suggesting this story should never have been published. concluding in part it is, quote, a story of journalistic failure that was avoidable. the failure encompassed reporting editing, editorial, supervision and fact checking. among the failures, the reporter did not confirm basic elements of the accuser s story. like whether or not the fraternity even held a party on the night the purported rape occurred as the accuser suggested. the report neglected to interview any of the alleged victim s friends who were reportedly with her moments after this incident. nonetheless the reporter quoted said friends in her piece. and the reporter and the magazine s editors and the fact checker never even confirmed that the man who was said to have orchestrated this entire horrific crime existed. and now we know he doesn t. we have a powerful lineup ton
Young woman over several hours. an alleged gang rape during a fraternity party. along with the outrage, there was suspicion. details began to emerge about the night the woman, named jackie, says she was raped. i think that that was pretty clear in the rolling stone piece. it was almost too perfect of a story. reporter: jackie s friends, alex stock and ryan duffin, say they were with her the night of the alleged attack in september, 2012. what they remember is very different from what jackie told rolling stone. the article says that she was beaten, hits in the face. that she was bare foot. that she was bloodied, and that her face was obviously beaten. is that true? no. i didn t notice any sort of physical injuries. i didn t notice a lack of shoes. i didn t really notice anything. reporter: there were other sdrech cease. about where she met her rapist, where they went on their date, and in the most strange twist, jackie had asked her friends to text with her date, and the pic
Purportedly sent later appeared to be fake. there s a good chance whoever was texting was jackie. there s a definite possibility. reporter: as the story began to fall apart, rolling stone admitted they never contacted the men jackie had accused. they also admitted that alex and ryan were never interviewed by the writer of the story even though they were quoted in the article. rolling stone said it had taken jackie s word and failed to fact check much of her story. that s left towering questions about what s real and what s not. last month, charlottesville police said their investigation found no evidence that jackie was raped in the way that the story portrays. they were clear not to accuse jackie of lying, leaving open the possibility that something bad might have happened to her. perhaps somewhere else. her lips were quivering reporter: her friends tell us they believe it s possible they ll never know exactly what happened to jackie. i still think it s difficult to be