Take a look at the photograph. What is your first reaction to it? Are you trying to place it's location? Are you trying to determine the type of violent confrontation this may be? What kind of destruction has befallen this home?
It is startling to discover it is the photograph, by Anthony Suau for Time, is of an eviction in Cleveland.
The World Press Photo of 2008 depicts what the jury thought to be the most important global issue - the slow collapse of the economy world-wide.
Problem with the photo is, I don't find it to contain enough conflict in the image itself. Without the explanation, it is flat and doesn't elicit a multitude of emotions - just the one of violence. I will have to explore the other winners - perhaps there is one that should have won instead?
It is startling to discover it is the photograph, by Anthony Suau for Time, is of an eviction in Cleveland.
The World Press Photo of 2008 depicts what the jury thought to be the most important global issue - the slow collapse of the economy world-wide.
Problem with the photo is, I don't find it to contain enough conflict in the image itself. Without the explanation, it is flat and doesn't elicit a multitude of emotions - just the one of violence. I will have to explore the other winners - perhaps there is one that should have won instead?
For more information about Suau and World Press Photo, please read this CBC article.
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Photos are a hard thing to understnad unless there is explanation to go along with them. It is hard to make a photo tell a story - even when they do, the images can be easily misinterpreted, the story 'read' a different way than it was meant to be. That is also the problem with text, no matter how much descriptive detail the author provides, the reader may still 'see' the same character differently in their mind. I am often conflicted with this aspect of photography, for a while it actually drove me away from photography, but now I am coming to terms with the fact that for an image to be properly internalised it has to come with textual support not simply to better describe the context of the image, but also that of the photographer, and the culture in which it is meant to be understood. We all apply our own cultural/educational/social/historical lenses to the images we see.
Sonya
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