The Real Winners of World Press Photo 2014: The Palestinians

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Trent
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The Real Winners of World Press Photo 2014: The Palestinians – Reading The Pictures

If it’s a sad commentary on the state of the Western news media gaze, it’s a pleasure and a relief to see Palestinians as “not one thing” — to see Palestinians who are secular and devout; who do “regular things”; who don’t spend every moment seething; an

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It seems one thing the World Press panel, in its wisdom, appreciated this year is that news consumers have seen their share of dead Palestinian babies, Palestinian funerals and Muslim men clustered before cameras in a blind rage. I’m not saying, by the way, that such scenes aren’t occurring regularly or reflective of a people under siege. What I am saying (and is remarkably controverted by these choices this year) is how the depiction of the Palestinian tends to be so narrow, so one-dimensionally represented as victimized and militant in the Western press.