Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Steve, I hope to invent an excuse to go, yes. Last year we were on a family holiday in Barcelona, so it was easy. Perhaps we will do something similar this year, we certainly enjoyed it. As is usual in these case, it all comes down to what SWMBO wants to do... Nathan Steve Unsworth wrote: > Nathan, speaking of photo-journalism, are you going to Perpignan this > summer? > > And speaking of Perpignan, congratulations to the rugby league team who > beat > Wigan on their first ever match last night. As one Wigan fan said before > the > game 'it's just like going to Salford'. Believe me, Perpignan is _nothing_ > like Salford :-) > > Steve > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+lug=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+lug=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Nathan Wajsman > Sent: 12 February 2006 10:08 > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: world press winners 2006 > > Ric, > > Yes, I did look at the pictures, and I go to the exhibition every year. > I am not saying that the winning image is bad, but I AM saying that it > is not the best of the images on show and that the winners of this > competition are selected based on the committee's desire to highlight > certain issues as much as on the photography. > > Let me put it in another way: if a Martian looked at the winning entries > of World Press Photo over the years, he would invariably conclude that > life on earth is an unending misery of wars, famines and natural > disasters. Of course I understand how the media work and that these > tragedies generate lots of news and lots of coverage, but surely that is > not all that life is about? > > I remember a few years ago the award was won by a Danish photographer > with a headshot of a wounded man in Kosovo (or Bosnia, I don't remember > exactly). While I was happy to see a Dane win, I must honestly say that > I found the image to be quite ordinary compared to many other images in > that year's exhibition. There was no doubt in my mind that it had won > because the committee wished to focus on that war. In other years it has > been equally clear that a political agenda rather than photographic > merit is often the determining factor. > > When I go to the exhibition, I invariably find images that are superior > to the winners but did not win because they did not fit that agenda. > > Nathan > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS! General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog