Escape from the Taliban and the World Press Photo

Escape from the Taliban and the World Press Photo

Colin Pantall’s blog about photography, writing, art and politics

Link: http://colinpantall.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/escape-from-taliban-and-world-press.html

But then you need to ask whether news or the press should be the main focal point for photography. I certainly don’t buy newspapers for looking at photography (though I used to). I do buy books and magazines though and that’s where people like Amc kick in; they are part of a shift away from a didactic, informational photography towards a broader photography that examines how images are made and consumed in broader culture; it’s part of a move to question how we see images and the effect they have on us. And that question is becoming broader than ever before.