vrijdag, februari 11, 2005
Arko Datta wint World Press Photo
De maker van de World Press Photo 2004 heet Arko Datta (Reuters).
De foto van een vrouw die rouwt om een familielid werd gemaakt op 28 december in Tamil Nadu (India) na de tsunami.
Onder de winnaars verder Ami Vitale (Second Prize Stories in de categorie People in the News), James Nachtwey, Jan Grarup en de Nederlanders Geert van Kesteren, Paul Vreeker en Inez van Lamsweerde.
Arko Datta, die in Zuid-India woont, over de nasleep van de tsunami:
Almost all scenes were as harrowing as the other. The scenes of inconsolable parents unable to accept the reality that they had lost their little children--that the lifeless bodies wouldn't move again--was very heart-rending. I had to suppress my own emotions before I could get to shoot them.
But personally, when I came upon a weeping young lad, just clinging on to the lifeless body of his mother and not letting go despite people trying to pull him away, stopped me in my tracks--making me visualize myself in his place.
In the midst of all this, there were some situations that brought about smiles. Like when a young girl, hardly past a toddler's age, kept on pressing my camera shutter during my visit to an orphanage for tsunami victims. I was shooting with one camera and the other one was dangling down my shoulder. And this girl seeing me engrossed in shooting would take the opportunity to press the shutter of the free camera. Somewhat irritated, my immediate and impulsive reaction was to turn around to see who was doing it. When I turned around, I saw this girl running away from me and giggling from behind a door. The innocent, smiling eyes and the giggles were so heart-warming. I guess from my reaction she read that I was OK with the little game of hers and the rest of that day she would catch me engrossed in shooting and press the shutter of the other camera and run away giggling. On one occasion I had shut that camera off, and when she tried to press the camera it wouldn't fire. I can't forget the look of disappointment on her face. I had to turn the camera back on to see the game go on. (Bron: PDN)
De foto van een vrouw die rouwt om een familielid werd gemaakt op 28 december in Tamil Nadu (India) na de tsunami.
Onder de winnaars verder Ami Vitale (Second Prize Stories in de categorie People in the News), James Nachtwey, Jan Grarup en de Nederlanders Geert van Kesteren, Paul Vreeker en Inez van Lamsweerde.
Arko Datta, die in Zuid-India woont, over de nasleep van de tsunami:
Almost all scenes were as harrowing as the other. The scenes of inconsolable parents unable to accept the reality that they had lost their little children--that the lifeless bodies wouldn't move again--was very heart-rending. I had to suppress my own emotions before I could get to shoot them.
But personally, when I came upon a weeping young lad, just clinging on to the lifeless body of his mother and not letting go despite people trying to pull him away, stopped me in my tracks--making me visualize myself in his place.
In the midst of all this, there were some situations that brought about smiles. Like when a young girl, hardly past a toddler's age, kept on pressing my camera shutter during my visit to an orphanage for tsunami victims. I was shooting with one camera and the other one was dangling down my shoulder. And this girl seeing me engrossed in shooting would take the opportunity to press the shutter of the free camera. Somewhat irritated, my immediate and impulsive reaction was to turn around to see who was doing it. When I turned around, I saw this girl running away from me and giggling from behind a door. The innocent, smiling eyes and the giggles were so heart-warming. I guess from my reaction she read that I was OK with the little game of hers and the rest of that day she would catch me engrossed in shooting and press the shutter of the other camera and run away giggling. On one occasion I had shut that camera off, and when she tried to press the camera it wouldn't fire. I can't forget the look of disappointment on her face. I had to turn the camera back on to see the game go on. (Bron: PDN)
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