Guardian: Portrait of Humanity

[FPjohn]

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...rtrait-of-humanity-2020-shortlist-in-pictures

Would Leke in Nazet be on the short short list?

yours
FPJ

 

[Mlehrman]

Thank you for sharing this.

 

[helen.HH]

FPJohn,

Thanks so much for the link
LOVED some of the photographs and stories
Cheers~ H

 

[Richard G]

Beautiful. Thanks.

 

[Out to Lunch]

Stylized pics which have nothing much to do with day-to-day life.

 

[Lids]

To each their own. I'm more interested in seeing things that are far outside the range of my daily experience.

Just in case anyone missed it, they buried the link to the actual short list of 200 photos in the description of the first photo in the article.

https://portraitofhumanity.co/portrait-of-humanity-2020-shortlist/

@FPjohn, thanks for the link.

 

[jsrockit]

Stylized pics which have nothing much to do with day-to-day life.

Every single one of them? I think you didn't look at all of them...

Thank you for posting... it was interesting to me.

 

[SimonPJ]

Stylized pics which have nothing much to do with day-to-day life.

I am also surprised by the predominance of posed, stylised, straight to camera portraits amongst the shortlist - cold, awkward and alienating.

For me, they represent a much less powerful portrait of humanity than many of the more spontaneous images posted here or on similar communities on the internet.

 

[FPjohn]

Vermeer

Vermeer

Stylized pics which have nothing much to do with day-to-day life.

The "Leke" image is very like a Vermeer. So yes as to stylized. FPJ

 

[Joao]

Some outstanding portraits.
Thank you for the link.
Joao

 

[joe bosak]

Guardian: Portrait of Humanity

Thanks, mildly thought-provoking in lots of ways. Several had suffered trauma or deformity. Some pictures rather obviously challenging the definition of what a portrait is (surprised there wasn't actually a picture with absolutely no human in it, but maybe that's been done). A lot were surprisingly cliched. Some needed a good crop 🙂. A few that seemed little more than family snaps.