> > Has anyone posted about this yet? For me, I love the winner. > So poetic, so enigmatic. > > http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_content&ta sk=view&id=1789&Itemid=50&bandwidth=high > > As the NYT says, click on Full Screen before you make an opinion > > http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/showcase-122/ > > But I am troubled. The winner and the special mention are > both about the Iranian election. Did the photos make a > difference in the end? >
We haven't reached the end. Photograph doesn't necessarily work directly, not anymore. But if there were no photographs and no TV footage, what would we know about events in Iran? Probably next to nothing. Dramatic photographs make people aware of what is going on, which is useful in and of itself, but it also means that we can pressurise our own governments into pressurising the bad guys (who are sometimes our governments) into being a bit less bad. That can save lives. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
