photographylot: The World Press Photo Awards, Julie Jacobson and Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard

The World Press Photo Awards, Julie Jacobson and Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard

This years winners of the World Press Photo competition have recently been announced. You can see the winners gallery here . Once again, …

Link: http://photographylot.blogspot.com/2010/02/world-press-photo-awards-julie-jacobson.html

To those who think this picture is disrespectful, I say that perhaps you prefer it if we remembered him only as a statistic. I’m sorry but again I have to respectfully disagree. I have said it before and I’ll say it again, if I was a soldier killed in action, you can be damn sure I would want a photograph of my death plastered across the front page of every publication in the world.