World Press Photo: As Much About News as About the Human Condition? — BagNews

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World Press Photo: As Much About News as About the Human Condition? – Reading The Pictures

The picture of “Jon and Alex” seems to also be part of an emerging trend among the winning photographs of recent years: a cinematic aesthetics that combines artistic compositions with invitation to storytelling.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/02/world-press-photo-as-much-about-news-as-about-the-human-condition/

One can’t help speculate whether this apparent tendency to a move from spot news photos to more feature-like images might be connected to the fact that cell phones and modern photo equipment makes everyone a news photographer these days