"Now, you might be thinking "why are there two conversions on two dates"? This is what you typically see when a picture is spliced from two sources."
"The January 4th date is interesting because the deadline for submissions to the World Photo Awards was 17 January 2013. So although the base photo was taken in November 2012, it wasn't edited until about two weeks before the contest deadline."
This whole theory pretty much fails as it was published in "Dagens Nyheter" in November 2012. The lower image is what it looked like:
The photo that won the award (was physically available to the judges) may have been significantly different from the photo that was originally published.
Indeed, I can see several differences. The colors, obviously, but also the child in the foreground is dirtier, the men at the edges are darker, the men at the center are lighter, and all faces are clearer, and the sky is darker.
"The January 4th date is interesting because the deadline for submissions to the World Photo Awards was 17 January 2013. So although the base photo was taken in November 2012, it wasn't edited until about two weeks before the contest deadline."
This whole theory pretty much fails as it was published in "Dagens Nyheter" in November 2012. The lower image is what it looked like:
http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/gunthert/8485283411/sizes/o/