In 2011, Terje Hellesø was an award-winning nature photographer who taught, gave lectures and exhibited his photographic art.

But everything changed when he was caught cheating with an anonymous group on the online forum Flashback.

They could show that he had cut lynx in his nature photographs.

In connection with the revelation, Terje Hellesø lost many of his assignments.

The award for nature photographer of the year, which he received from the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation the year before, was withdrawn and the exhibition he was to do at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm as a result of the award was canceled.

In the documentary, several of Hellesø's photography students tell how they felt a great disappointment after the incident.

The cheating is believed to apply to around 100 images.

"Will not come home"

The day when the revelation was a fact, Terje Hellesø called his wife Malin Ellisdotter Hellesø and acknowledged the image manipulation.

In the documentary, she talks about the conversation. 

- "Sorry Malin" he said, "but I will not come home".

After the admission, he was admitted to psychiatry in Jönköping.

Be hard pressed

Terje Hellesø believes that an underlying reason why he cut lynx in his nature pictures may be that he was hard pressed at the time of the incident due to all his commitments.

In the documentary, he tells about how he constantly sought confirmation from the outside world for his work.

- Today I do not care in case no one believes in me.

Then it was vital.

That was why I did what I did, he says.

Do you want to know more about the photographer Terje Hellesø and the image manipulation?

Watch the documentary "Terje - the photographer, the lie and the truth" on SVT1 on Tuesday 1 December at 20.00 or now on SVT Play.