A full report on this year’s contest will be released on 27 February – but in the meantime, a new spectre has raised its head. Documentary but recording a murder which took place at a press conference, this year’s winning image by Burhan Ozbilici has been denounced by the jury chair Stuart Franklin, who argues […]
Why does manipulation matter? Does the manipulation of news and documentary photographs matter, and how should we talk about this issue? The discussion about the number of images disqualified for manipulation in the 2015 World Press Photo contest has been intense, and the debate will be ongoing. But I’ve now left the Secretary’s seat for […]
El eterno debate en el fotoperiodismo Walter Benjamin dijo que “la fotografía ha logrado transformar la más abyecta pobreza, encarándola de una manera estilizada, técnicamente perfecta, en objeto placentero”. » ¿Vemos lo bello y no lo terrible?, ¿qué busca el fotógrafo con fotografías así?». Sin duda, una de las claves está en la pregunta: «¿necesitamos este […]
Interesantísimos comentarios del secretario del jurado de World Press Photo 2014. Por cierto de nuevo una polémica en torno a la fotografía ganadora. El presidente del jurado es el fundador de la agencia VII Photo y el ganador John Stanmeyer pertenece a la misma agencia. Mr Knight said that although he had asked to be removed […]