The new crop of world press winners is out and as in every year many reflections come to mind.
Reminiscent of Eugene Smith’s Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath , the winning image, from Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda lacks all the required W’s that makes a great news photograph. By looking at it, you have no idea who,where, when, or why this picture was taken. It’s only after a required reading that you finally find out. Then you can return to the image. But even after, it is hard to connect. Mostly because there is a total lack of visible faces, making it hard to understand the feelings.
Category: Contests
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Emotionless
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Samuel Aranda’s Photo From Yemen Wins the Photo of the Year
A Painterly World Press Photo Winner
Samuel Aranda had to slip into Yemen carefully as he covered last year’s unrest. His patience was rewarded today when one of his images was chosen Photo of the Year by World Press Photo.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/a-painterly-world-press-photo-winner/?pagewanted=all
“I got back to my place and I saw the photo in the screen and I was like, ‘Wow,’” Mr. Aranda said. “The woman is not just crying. It was something more. You can feel that the woman is really strong.”
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Ladies and gentlemen, here are this year’s Pulitzer winners
Jim Romenesko
via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2012/04/16/ladies-and-gentlemen-here-are-this-years-pulitzer-winners/
– Breaking News Photography: Massoud Hossaini, Agence France-Presse
– Feature Photography: Craig F. Walker, Denver Post | Story -
The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner: Massoud Hossaini
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via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/
Columbia University has announced the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners—and they include Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini, whose picture of a girl reacting to a suicide bombing took the title in the category of breaking news photography.
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Photographers from Central Eurasia to Document Human Rights Issues in Their Home Region
Photographers from Central Eurasia to Document Human Rights Issues in Their Home Region
The Open Society Documentary Photography Project announces winners of the 2012 Production Grant to Individual Photographers from Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Afghanistan, Mongolia, and Pakistan.
The 2012 grantees are: Fraidoon Poya (Afghanistan); Fardin Waezi (Afghanistan); Arthur Lumen Gevorgyan (Armenia); Inna Mkhitaryan (Armenia); Sitara Ibrahimova (Azerbaijan); Dina Oganova (Georgia); Daro Sulakauri (Georgia); Darya Komleva (Kazakhstan); and Elyor Nematov (Kyrgyzstan). Their projects are described below.
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All photographs are flukes: the problem with photography competitions
In rewarding one picture, we are congratulating a photographer on merely one ‘fluke’ they have experienced, on one single effort they may have exerted to produce one image, that is questionable as to how much input was given from other people, and that in itself gives no indication as to whether the person really should be congratulated, esteemed, and rewarded as a ‘photographer’.