This week’s preparatory reading comes courtesy of Martijn Kleppe (@MartijnKleppe) of the University of Rotterdam . It’s a departure from the scheduled subject matter but one that we can legitimately drawn into our class forum. Martijn has put together a bundle feed you can reach by clicking the image:
World Press Photo Award Bundle
https://bitly.com/bundles/martijnkleppe/b
Please spend an hour reading as many of the various arguments as you can and come to the class session with two of the posts that you would use to give a broad accounting of the issues to a non-photographer.
In the blue corner, the following people will argue that the winning image is a good choice:
Sean Carroll
Jessica Dash
Jennifer Hearn
Safeera Hickson
Helen Kuchta
Afsheen Malik
Mariya Mileva
Amber Nicholls
Alex Nisbet
In the red corner, the following will argue that the winning image is a bad choice:
Alison Prentice
Adele Reed
Dicken Richards
Mathew Ridgley
Jack Somerset
Hazel Steel
Josie Sutton
Kye Tidman
Alex Wierzbicki
(more at bagnewsnotes.com)
Shamelessly edited from Joerg Colberg’s Conscientious blog
While saying that a photo is a western photo is because we look at it with western eyes. If we try to avoid that, we just see what unfortunately has been a very much repeated situation accross north african countries over the last year. It just captures pain, defeat, fight both for the man and the woman. Pain, defeat, and fight accross time and places, and victory at the end too, sometimes. Commonalities that makes us feels closer to a reality, in this case that of the arab and muslim world, sometimes difficult to connect from the abstract, the conceptual, or the lack of understanding. Acceptance or not, is just a personal matter. The photo breaks that distance.
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