OT: World Press photo contest winners

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http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2002-02-17/1015476594.html

Also reported in yahoo.News, without photographs.

-- martin tai (martin.tai@sympatico.ca), February 17, 2002

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news? tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020215/ap_on_re_eu/world_press_photo_list_3

-- martin tai (martin.tai@sympatico.ca), February 17, 2002.

World Press Photo's website, which shows winning photos

-- Richard (rvle@yahoo.com), February 17, 2002.

Who am I to critisize these pictures, but it seems to me that most of them depend on the captions as much as the pictures to mean anything.

-- (bmitch@home.com), February 17, 2002.

So much easier to criticized from the peanut gallery than to get out there and accomplish something , huh?

-- (winner@worldpress.com), February 17, 2002.

Why are people afraid to sign their names to their posts? I wish the list could block anonymous postings.

-- David Enzel (dhenzel@vei.net), February 17, 2002.


Sorry, I didn't mean to post anonimiously.

-- Bill Mitchell (bmitch@home.com), February 17, 2002.

I am by no means a well established photographer, but a majority of those pictures are nothing special. Snapshots of famous icons with war messages?! Didn't Eugene Smith or Cartier Bresson leave their talent to anyone in their will?

What bothers me is the fact that there are talented young photographers everywhere wanting to get a decent gig, and the photogrpahers they send to these war-torn places come back with simple snapshots that win awards. Where is photography headed?

-- Kristian (leicashot@hotmail.com), February 18, 2002.


I am proud to say the winner Erik Refner is danish - And i am a daily reader of the newspaper Berlingske Tidende - Which has Claus Bjørn Jensen employd too - Strong tradition for good photograph i Denmark (perhaps due to the lousy light i winter halfyear ;-)

-- thomas marker (thomas@advokat-marker.dk), February 18, 2002.

Kristian,

If we want to find out the terms of Cartier-Bresson's will we'll have to ask him. The master is very much alive.

-- Mani Sitaraman (bindumani@pacific.net.sg), February 18, 2002.


Thanks for your post, Martin, and your help, Richard !

I don't think that the baby's funeral nor the executed soldier are just simple photos ...!

I'm no photo reporter myself but plain common sense makes me assume that our old saying "Otra cosa es con guitarra . . ." (which means - though it doesn't exactly translate into - "play the guitar along with singing the tune and youl'll see what it takes . . ." does apply here.

... and I'm not saying that HCB's work is of any less value, of course. He is my greatest photo hero, the same as many other people's I guess.

Regards

-Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), February 18, 2002.



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