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Subject: [Leica] OT: world press winners 2006
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Mon Feb 13 18:14:49 2006
References: <001501c62fbd$b80e30e0$0202a8c0@acer81080ea37f> <43F0D134.5060202@planet.nl>

We should be in Barcelona in early June if that's an excuse ;-)

On 14/02/2006, at 5:34, Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> 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
>
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In reply to: Message from lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth) ([Leica] OT: world press winners 2006)
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