Saturday I went with some friends to see the World Press Exhibition and we spent a very nice afternoon traveling in mind visiting different places and people all over the world. The photos were all so different with one common characteristic - they were great, catching precise moments and all the feelings involved!
I think I liked some of the sport photos the most, there were some really cool ones. There were also many great but really scary photos reminding how cruel this world can be and the exhibition also offered some amazing nature photos showing the beauty which is all around us.
It is fascinating how those artists can catch moments so well and make the pictures talk to so many people around the world. If this visit was a scientific experiment, one conclusion could be that Russian, Swedish, Canadian and French people have the same taste when it comes to photos - a clear sign of globalisation even in this matter :) and more or less the same understanding of the world. But to be honest, the test group did not include a fair representative group, (four expat well-educated girls just below the age of 30), so maybe a better conclusion is that we are likely to choose to hang out with people similar to us no matter where they are from...
Anyway, the saying one picture says more than a thousands words proved to be true...
Even if I recommend to see this live instead of on the computer screen, the pictures can be seen at: http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=blogsection&id=19&Itemid=223&bandwidth=high
The photos I liked the most for different reasons includes the 1st and the 3rd one in the sport for expressing the exact moments with emotions and action, the 1st in the general news with the Brazilian women with the naked resisting against the police, the 3rd one in the Sport stories for its preciseness. The 1st in Daily Life is a really scary photo with the children watching the killed women.
There are many many more great ones, and I could go on telling about witch ones I liked but check them out your self! and have a look at the schedule if the exhibitions comes close to where you are... Tips, the exhibition is also right now in Copenhagen until 1 November...
I think I liked some of the sport photos the most, there were some really cool ones. There were also many great but really scary photos reminding how cruel this world can be and the exhibition also offered some amazing nature photos showing the beauty which is all around us.
It is fascinating how those artists can catch moments so well and make the pictures talk to so many people around the world. If this visit was a scientific experiment, one conclusion could be that Russian, Swedish, Canadian and French people have the same taste when it comes to photos - a clear sign of globalisation even in this matter :) and more or less the same understanding of the world. But to be honest, the test group did not include a fair representative group, (four expat well-educated girls just below the age of 30), so maybe a better conclusion is that we are likely to choose to hang out with people similar to us no matter where they are from...
Anyway, the saying one picture says more than a thousands words proved to be true...
Even if I recommend to see this live instead of on the computer screen, the pictures can be seen at: http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=blogsection&id=19&Itemid=223&bandwidth=high
The photos I liked the most for different reasons includes the 1st and the 3rd one in the sport for expressing the exact moments with emotions and action, the 1st in the general news with the Brazilian women with the naked resisting against the police, the 3rd one in the Sport stories for its preciseness. The 1st in Daily Life is a really scary photo with the children watching the killed women.
There are many many more great ones, and I could go on telling about witch ones I liked but check them out your self! and have a look at the schedule if the exhibitions comes close to where you are... Tips, the exhibition is also right now in Copenhagen until 1 November...
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Thanks for the tips. Hopefully, I will have time to see the exihibition when I am in Copenhagen later on this month. Sleep tight! jP
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