'[Photographer] Jill Greenberg is quite obviously an indecent person who should not be working in magazine journalism,' writes Jeffrey Goldberg, a staff writer at The Atlantic Monthly.

Goldberg's strong words came after a photo shoot of Republican Presidential nominee John McCain. Greenberg was commissioned by the US magazine to illustrate Goldberg's cover article. However, the photographer, who has a reputation for being a 'manipulator' of images, as she, herself, writes on her website, doctored the extra images not used by the magazine.

Image © Jill Greenberg

The result is a series of images such as the following with McCain's mouth with bloody shark teeth. Speaking to the New York Post, Greenberg says that for the final shot she pretended to use a standard modeling light, but instead lit him from below.

'He had no idea he was being lit from below,' Greenberg said, adding that none of his entourage picked up on the light switch either. 'I guess they're not very sophisticated,' she added.

The Atlantic editor James Bennet lambasted the photographer. 'We feel totally blind-sided,' he said. 'Her behavior is outrageous. Incredibly unprofessional.'

Goldberg added: 'Suffice it to say that her "art" is juvenile, and on occasion repulsive. This is not the issue, of course; the issue is that she betrayed this magazine, and disgraced her profession'.

The doctored images can be seen on Greenberg's website.