World Press Photo

[canonetc]

Hi everyone,

2005 winners announced. For more images that inspire and create food for thought.....another reason why photography is so important. And can help to motivate change the world......

http://www.worldpressphoto.nl/

Cheers,

Chris
Canonetc

 

[RayPA]

Thanks Chris! I really like the images from the Olympics by David Burnett. I think he used a Holga.

 

[Terence T]

I always look forward to the results of each year. This year's crop contain a lot of prolific entries, I'm now waiting for the book to come out. It's certainly inspiring to see such excellent work. Just look at this one of a deportee on a hunger strike...

Copyright Paul Vreeker, The Netherlands, Reuters.

 

[RayPA]

Terence, that one caught my interest too. It pulls you right into the story.

 

[canonetc]

hey RayPA! Actually he used a Speed Graphic 4x5 or a Super Speed Graphic 4x5. Cool huh? And yes folks, it does have a rangefinder! 🙂 You can tell it's a SG by the forward tilt of the lens board which creates a distortion in focus top and bottom....

chris
canonetc

 

[ray_g]

Interesting photo. I get the hunger strike bit, but why the sutures on the eyelids?

 

[Beniliam]

Always they grant to the human misery an award. We cannot return the head to another place, but THIS awards makes of the human barbarism a justification of art. It is necessary to also condemn the wars behind the cameras and let take advantage of the hardness of the war without reason.



David

 

[RayPA]

hey RayPA! Actually he used a Speed Graphic 4x5 or a Super Speed Graphic 4x5. Cool huh? And yes folks, it does have a rangefinder! 🙂 You can tell it's a SG by the forward tilt of the lens board which creates a distortion in focus top and bottom....

chris
canonetc

Aaaah. OK. That's even cooler! He is a pretty interesting fellow. I knew nothing about him until I saw the Washington Post links that were posted on CVUG. I forwarded them in a post here last week. I know that he has used a Holga as well as the SG and other cameras, but wasn't aware the SG had a tilt on the lens board. I was looking at one last week that was fixed (different models maybe?). Ya learn something new everyday. Thanks, Chris!

 

[RayPA]

Always they grant to the human misery an award. We cannot return the head to another place, but THIS awards makes of the human barbarism a justification of art. It is necessary to also condemn the wars behind the cameras and let take advantage of the hardness of the war without reason.

David

I too have an issue with awards for photographs depicting human misery and suffering. It doesn't seem right. In fact after last week's discussion around the Pulitzer Prize Winning Photos (see thread), I found it refreshing that not ALL the images here followed that same pattern. 🙂

 

[kiev4a]

Just for the sake of argument. I would say that a lot of the winning pictures aren't that exceptional from a composition standpoint. Powerful photographs aren't that hard to get if you have the resources to get to the scenes of death, or destruction. From a photographic standpoint, I'm more impressed by pictures of relatively normal events that reach out and grab the viewer because photographers had the skill to get an out-of-the-ordinary perspective.

 

[Beniliam]

I too have an issue with awards for photographs depicting human misery and suffering. It doesn't seem right. In fact after last week's discussion around the Pulitzer Prize Winning Photos (see thread), I found it refreshing that not ALL the images here followed that same pattern

Yes Ray, the mediocrity of the modern art is a fact. The awards and the galleries doesnt show the best criterion, in this world, like I believe one century ago, the influences are the best key to open the door of the fame.

I recognize the value and the risk of these photograph. But ... its sad that some photograph only uses the the most dramatic photos for win awards and exhibitions and not for remove consciences, and teach and praise the value of the human life.

🙂 Ray

Just for the sake of argument. I would say that a lot of the winning pictures aren't that exceptional from a composition standpoint. Powerful photographs aren't that hard to get if you have the resources to get to the scenes of death, or destruction. From a photographic standpoint, I'm more impressed by pictures of relatively normal events that reach out and grab the viewer because photographers had the skill to get an out-of-the-ordinary perspective.

Kiev4a, one old photography teacher won the World Press Photo of the 2002 in one category with this photo. (The first that appear in the gallerie)

http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Exhibitions/World_Press/WPP.htm

 

[RML]

Just for the sake of argument. I would say that a lot of the winning pictures aren't that exceptional from a composition standpoint. Powerful photographs aren't that hard to get if you have the resources to get to the scenes of death, or destruction. From a photographic standpoint, I'm more impressed by pictures of relatively normal events that reach out and grab the viewer because photographers had the skill to get an out-of-the-ordinary perspective.

As the WPP is always exhibited in Amsterdam I've seen the exhibitions of the past 2 or 3 years. And though there are some "compositionally" good photos and some "emotionally" gripping photos, I find that most are little more than dross. After visiting the exhibition I'm usually rather disappointed about the quality of the works presented.

This sunday I'll go to see the WPP exhibition but I'm more looking forward to seeing (on sunday and monday, it's going to be a photo weekend for me) the exhibition of Red Army photographer Yevgeny Khaldey in the Jewish Historical Museum (a favourite photog of mine), the latest exhibition in FOAM photography museum, or the exhibition of David Lachapelle (sp?) in Reflex Gallery (all here in Amsterdam).