World press photo 2012

[ubald™]

Ecco a voi gli scatti vincitori
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/gallery/2012-world-press-photo

[ubald™]

mi par di vedere parecchi italiani tra i vincitori.
Certi reportages sono notevoli (non per niente è il WPP! )

[AleZan]

Anche se noto alcune cose un po' scontate, come ad esempio troppi premi dati alla primavera araba e allo tsunami in Giappone, provo a fare una specie di mia classifica personale tra i premiati.
Magari ognuno può proporre la sua.

Daily Life, 1st prize stories, Alejandro Kirchuk
General News, 2nd prize stories, Paolo Pellegrin
Portraits, 1st prize stories, Donald Weber
Spot News, 2nd prize singles, Massoud Hossaini
Daily Life, 3rd prize stories, Alexander Gronsky
Daily Life, 2nd prize stories, Pietro Paolini
Sports, 2nd prize stories, Adam Pretty
Arts and Entertainment, 2nd prize stories, Emiliano Larizza
People in the News, 1st prize singles, Samuel Aranda
General News, 1st prize singles, Alex Majoli
Nature, 3rd prize singles, Francesco Zizola
Contemporary Issues, 3rd prize singles, Simona Ghizzoni

[filippo1978]

Daily Life, 1st prize singles, Damir Sagolj
Daily Life, 3rd prize stories, Alexander Gronsky
Portraits, 2nd prize singles, Guillaume Herbaut
Portraits, 1st prize singles, Laerke Posselt
Arts and Entertainment, 1st prize stories, Rob Hornstra
Contemporary Issues, 2nd prize stories, Ebrahim Nor
Daily Life, 2nd prize stories, Pietro Paolini
People in the News, 2nd prize singles, Tomasz Lazar

[filippo1978]

Molte delle foto viste al wpp sono intercambiabili. Cioè le puoi mischiare e non sai chi le ha scattate, pazzesco!
Pensa che quando vidi l'immagine che ha vinto sul blog del nyt mi venne da pensare che avrebbe vinto perché era una foto da wpp.
Voi che ne diti, esiste un'estetica da wpp, cioè se uno impara a governare quell'estetica e si trova in un evento (anche qui) da wpp può seriamente sperare di vincere? Cioè è un lavoro che ormai ha poco a che vedere con il reportage da pubblicare.

[Iggy]

[AleZan]

Mi pare che sia un concorso prima di tutto influenzato delle grandi agenzie fotogiornalistiche. E quindi dal loro "foto-pensiero". Conseguentemente sono i loro "cavallini di razza" a distinguersi.
Ciò non toglie che quest'anno tra i premiati ci siano diversi lavori interessanti e, per questo, "non intercambiabili".

[dontimoteo]

un giurato ha dichiarato che non c'erano lavori interessanti di OWS, anzi che le foto sembravano tutte di fotoamatori, quando invece c'erano lavori notevoli di grandi professionisti, chiisa che foto ha visto lui
trovo sbagliato che lo stesso tema venga premiato in diverse sezioni, tipo primavera araba o terremoto in giappone vengono premiati in general news o spot news o daily life,
più lungimirante il POY che ha fatto una sezione distinta su primavera araba e terremoto in giappone

Last year was an eventful year for news photographers. Dictators were overthrown across an entire region and the Far East was hit by numerous natural catastrophes. But, say judges for World Press Photo, one important event seemed to struggle to make the final cut.

In May 2011, the Spanish Indignados movement took to the streets of Madrid. The movement then gained an international dimension when, on 17 September 2011, another group of demonstrators took to New York City's Zuccotti Park to protest against social and economic inequalities - the Occupy Wall Street movement was born, quickly spreading to 80 countries around the world and mobilising crowds of hundreds of thousands.
But, say some of the 2012 World Press Photo judges, this movement was not represented in this year's entries. "We were disappointed in terms of the images we received," says Koyo Kouoh, a Cameroonian independent exhibition maker and cultural producer. "It feels like photojournalists didn't understand the moment or didn't document it for a long time. Just a few started near the end of the movement, when they understood the seriousness of it."

She adds: "It seems that the big and awful stories from around the world [are what] photojournalists record, that's what they live off. We had a lot of discussions around certain images from Africa and it was good that I was able to be on the jury to oppose them. I think perhaps there's a tendency for journalists to focus on what's going on abroad. There is this fascination. As a result, what happens in their own countries is silenced."

Kouoh says that World Press Photo did receive some images documenting the Occupy movement, but most of them were shot by amateurs and "frankly, they were not good enough."

Manoocher Deghati, the regional photo manager for Associated Press in the Middle East, agrees. "I regretted the fact that we didn't have any good photographs from the Occupy movement. That was a surprise for me. It's a big and important movement. There were some images but no good ones. It seems that photographers didn't realise quickly [how important it was], there were seven or eight months of protests all over Europe and America and we didn't have a single good professional photographer."

And, says Kouoh, it's regrettable for the Occupy movement as a whole.

[ubald™]

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/photo/2012remiochlikgns1-al?gallery=2634
questo reporter, vincitore di quest'anno, è morto sul campo...
http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2012/02/22/foto/ucciso_a_homs_ochlik_aveva_da_poco_vinto_il_world_press_photo-30308678/1/

[professione_reporter]

Interessante questa sezione del forum, la devo frequentare di più
La mia non è una classifica, difficile farla di fronte a tanta qualità. Le 'foto del dolore' hanno sempre un impatto emotivo fortissimo, però temo che ci siamo un po' assuefatti a questo tipo di immagini, sicuramente colpa della TV che ce le propone in dosi industriali. Mi ha impressionato tantissimo il b/n di Adam Pretty che racconta il gesto sportivo con eleganza e grande forza figurativa.