Photojournalism makes us deal directly with powerful images:
death, blood, cruelty; our finiteness and the weakness of our own flesh. Make
it with crudity and without taboos through, only an image that impact us in
many different ways. Even if the photojournalism addresses more topics, always
this kind of image will affect us most than others.
World Press Photo is in charge of to put together the strongest
and display them around the world. Always according with contingent issues,
like environmental problems, murders and others, this sample always leaves us speechless.
Sometimes are issues of great
controversy like the murder of Muammar Gadaffi and others related to gang wars
in some problematic countries. Never let indifferent to us.
Anyway, in the spectator born a contradiction against the
work, for while the cruelty of the images still impressing us, sometimes the characters
portrayed becomes an icon, it could be a tyrant or a mother suffering with her
child dying in her arms, this image ironically reminiscent to Jesus, forgetting
in that way the original condition of this work. Which are the limits, then,
between aestheticize and make photojournalism? And in turn, which are the
limits between the disease and the compromise in show the reality? This
condition falls in the photographer, and many times is court by society, maybe
for our own denial, for not be able to admit our mortality condition. Maybe an
image can change our way to perceive us and our reality.
I choose this article because I am really interest in the
problem of the limit of the art. I mean, when start to be art and where ends, considering
sociocultural and otherproblems.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/17/world-press-photo-12-review
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