Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We should be in Barcelona in early June if that's an excuse ;-) On 14/02/2006, at 5:34, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I hope to invent an excuse to go, yes. Last year we were on a family > holiday in Barcelona, so it was easy. Perhaps we will do something > similar this year, we certainly enjoyed it. > > As is usual in these case, it all comes down to what SWMBO wants to > do... > > Nathan > > Steve Unsworth wrote: > >> Nathan, speaking of photo-journalism, are you going to Perpignan this >> summer? >> And speaking of Perpignan, congratulations to the rugby league team >> who beat >> Wigan on their first ever match last night. As one Wigan fan said >> before the >> game 'it's just like going to Salford'. Believe me, Perpignan is >> _nothing_ >> like Salford :-) >> Steve >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lug-bounces+lug=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org >> [mailto:lug-bounces+lug=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org] On >> Behalf Of >> Nathan Wajsman >> Sent: 12 February 2006 10:08 >> To: Leica Users Group >> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: world press winners 2006 >> Ric, >> Yes, I did look at the pictures, and I go to the exhibition every >> year. I am not saying that the winning image is bad, but I AM saying >> that it is not the best of the images on show and that the winners of >> this competition are selected based on the committee's desire to >> highlight certain issues as much as on the photography. >> Let me put it in another way: if a Martian looked at the winning >> entries of World Press Photo over the years, he would invariably >> conclude that life on earth is an unending misery of wars, famines >> and natural disasters. Of course I understand how the media work and >> that these tragedies generate lots of news and lots of coverage, but >> surely that is not all that life is about? >> I remember a few years ago the award was won by a Danish photographer >> with a headshot of a wounded man in Kosovo (or Bosnia, I don't >> remember exactly). While I was happy to see a Dane win, I must >> honestly say that I found the image to be quite ordinary compared to >> many other images in that year's exhibition. There was no doubt in my >> mind that it had won because the committee wished to focus on that >> war. In other years it has been equally clear that a political agenda >> rather than photographic merit is often the determining factor. >> When I go to the exhibition, I invariably find images that are >> superior to the winners but did not win because they did not fit that >> agenda. >> Nathan > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Almere, The Netherlands > > SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS! > > General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com > Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com > > Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 > Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com > > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Alastair