Wah, lu jadi teroris krn ngasih tau kebiadaban pejihad Islam, hehehe...
>________________________________ > From: Sunny <am...@tele2.se> >To: undisclosed-recipi...@yahoo.com >Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 4:46 AM >Subject: [proletar] Photographs from the centre of a tragedy > > > >Refl: Bagi netter yang tidak bisa melihat foto karena dibatasi oleh >mailinglist owner, tetapi ingin melihat foto, click link dibawah ini : > >http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/12/201112816424112535.html > >Photographs from the centre of a tragedy >For photographer Massoud Hossaini, the personal and professional came to a >head while shooting blast at Shia shrine. >Ali M Latifi Last Modified: 08 Dec 2011 19:52 >inShare6 >Hossaini first spotted the little girl in green while walking towards the >Abdul-Fazil shrine in Kabul [AFP] > >When Massoud Hossaini arrived outside the Abdul-Fazil shrine in Kabul >mid-morning on Tuesday he thought he would be there to photograph young Shia >worshippers taking part in the Ashoura Day observances for the AFP news agency. > >As he walked towards the shrine, a little girl dressed in green - a >traditional colour for Ashoura observances - caught his eye. He had no idea >that amongst the very crowd he walked in was a bomber who would set off an >unprecedented attack against Afghanistan's Shia minority. > >Hossaini continued to walk forward, taking snap shots along the way until he >was knocked to the floor by the force of a suicide bomb attack in the holiest >Shia site in Afghanistan. > >He pressed forward, walking towards the site of billowing smoke and ignoring >his bleeding hand and the crowds of people running in the opposite direction. >Amid the crush of people, Hossaini spotted the little girl in green whom he >had told himself only moments earlier he would come back to photograph. > >This time though, she was covered in blood and crying. > >Hossaini too, found himself crying, more than he had ever cried in his seven >years of shooting war and violence in Afghanistan. > >The images Hossaini took that day, as tears continued to flow from his eyes, >would end up on the covers of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The >Los Angeles Times, all variations of that little girl in the green dress. > >Al Jazeera spoke to Hossaini after the blasts about being a 30-year-old Shia >Afghan photographer on the scene of a violent attack on one of the Shia >calendar's holiest days. > >You were a Shia on the scene of an attack at a Shia shrine. Was there ever any >thought for you to stop photographing after the blast? > >Immediately after the blast I stopped and thought to myself that there would >be another explosion, a shooting, or the police would harass me, but I knew I >was there to do a job. I knew I was there to record that moment, so I stood >there and started to photograph. > >The first thing that came to my mind was to record the emotions. The sadness. >The crying. The panicked shouts against al-Qaeda. > >When I first got up after the blast I saw my hand was bleeding, but I got up, >took my camera and ran towards the smoke. > >As the smoke cleared, I saw myself encircled by dead bodies. Women and >children - one on top of the other. > >That was when I realised that I was at the exact spot that the bomb went off. >Only 10 seconds before I was watching a peaceful ceremony and now I was >encircled with bodies everywhere I could see. > >I was trying my best to record the emotion, what the people saw and how they >reacted. > >What was your first experience of shooting a violent scene? > >I started shooting for magazines in 2004. This event though, was very >important for me, because I was there from the moment it happened. > >In the past I would arrive on the scene after the event. This was the first >time I was at a scene to experience the before and the after. > >I had seen that little girl in green while we were walking in, then I saw her >covered in blood. > >Those images of that little girl are very important because they have come to >represent that day in Afghanistan to the entire world. > >A stringer was able to track her down today at a hospital in the Wazir Akbar >Khan hospital in Kabul. I planned to visit her in her home in the next two >days to shoot a photo-essay of her life. > >Have you seen a change in your photographs in the past seven years - the >subject matter, the mood, the events? > >When I started out it was more about war and destruction. Now I want to focus >more on real life in Afghanistan. The emotion. I want to show the beauty of >Afghanistan. > >As an Afghan photographing events in Afghanistan, how do you feel you approach >your assignments differently from other photographers? > >Others normally think to get the best shots as a reflection of their >professionalism. For me it's about everything. Reflecting my professionalism, >but also the emotions that I experience. The scene that I see. My priority is >to reflect the pain that the people are feeling. > >Because I have a personal feeling for this place and the events in it, the >photographs have more colour than if I were to photograph tragic events like >these in other countries. > >Your online profile says you were born in a wrong place, Afghanistan, grew up >in a wrong place, Iran, and are living in a wrong place, Kabul. What does that >mean to you? > >When I was born in Afghanistan (1981) it was all war. When I went to Iran I >found myself in a completely functioning civil society, but it wasn't my >society. I didn't identify with it. I felt out of place. > >Then I came to Afghanistan in 2002. I was hoping our country would be rebuilt, >peace would be re-established, that we would have a civil society, education, >and democracy. None of that happened. > >I left a war and came back to a war. > >The profile ends with "Let's see what will happen", how would you complete >that thought in the seven years since you started photographing Afghanistan? > >I've seen many things - hope, fear, and fearlessness all in one. It's very >complicated. > >Seeing this explosion only 15 metres away from me I realised for the first >time that the danger, the death, and the violence are very physically close to >me and my family. > >Would you leave Afghanistan? > >It's a very difficult question for me. Part of me, like so many others, wants >to leave and live in peace. > >Then I ask myself, if I were to leave, 'what would the name Massoud Hossaini >mean?' Now it means a professional photographer recognised by the government. >Everyone knows me as a professional Afghan photographer. They know I will be >there to document the scene. > >If I leave what will I become? > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: prole...@egroups.com Subscribe : proletar-subscr...@egroups.com Unsubscribe : proletar-unsubscr...@egroups.com List owner : proletar-ow...@egroups.com Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! 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