Feb 05
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The one about the world in photos
Just visited the World Press Photo website and saw the winner and entries for the World Press Photo of the Year. Brilliant photos there.
But, those photos made me thinking about the world itself. As you can see it for yourself, most of the photos (not all, remind you) are photos of people in distress, in pain, in sorrow or to be exact most of the photos are disturbing photos about human and human condition.
Is this what the world had become? A place of pain and sorrow? No happiness around? The only smiles on most of those photos are the smiles of the oppressor.
Or is it simply that ‘happiness’ is not quite make news-worthy photos anymore? Why documenting happiness when you can documented misery and pain? Happiness is not important, it is not news-worthy and it is definitely won’t make you win an award.
I want to believe I am wrong…
3 Comments
iya..foto fotonya meist bernuansa sedih vi…kenapa ya?
gila man, bagus-bagus fotonya..:D, tapi ada nuansa kepedihan, mungkin tema nya STOP WAR !!..:)
amal @ February 17, 2005 12:00 AM
Last year I visited World Press Photo exhibition in Groningen and I saw a broad faces, from sadness to hapiness, war to feast, childage to grandparents, and so on. Some photos told about ordinary life, but indeed our world is full of terrible in the eyes of news photographers.
Tragedy itself, in some points, becomes a kind of news commodity that many people love to know (but not to be with). It is “a news” in term of something happens on the picture, and it sells emotions more than celebration events.
So, that is what I call about World Press Photo: a mourn black-white-gray photos. No rainbow, less sunshine… :(