Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Isaac on February 13, 2015, 12:38:17 pm
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http://www.worldpressphoto.org/awards/2015
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Too bad flavor-of-the-day politics and PC agenda play such a role in choosing winners.
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Perhaps you dislike the flavor. Are the photos good?
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Perhaps you dislike the flavor. Are the photos good?
Anything that ends up shortlisted at such a contest is supposed to be pretty good. But is it a coincidence that the winner fits (and combines) flavor-of-the-day politics (bashing Russia) and PC agenda (gay rights)? I also remember the latest Miss Universe pageant: Russia gets kicked out early, Ukraine is shortlisted. Again, coincidence?
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Anything that ends up shortlisted at such a contest is supposed to be pretty good. But is it a coincidence that the winner fits (and combines) flavor-of-the-day politics (bashing Russia) and PC agenda (gay rights)? I also remember the latest Miss Universe pageant: Russia gets kicked out early, Ukraine is shortlisted. Again, coincidence?
'tis nothing to the internal politics of the Eurovision song contest.
Viewers of the Eurovision Song Contest might have noticed over the years that the winning song is rarely the best.
And while critics of the contest have suggested the outcome is driven by prejudice and is stitched-up at the UK’s expense, scientists have discovered other 'hidden' voting patterns.
They found that votes are based on a combination of loyalties tied up with culture, geography, history and migration.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2618692/The-science-EUROVISION-Study-reveals-hidden-pattern-voting-song-content.html
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Anything that ends up shortlisted at such a contest is supposed to be pretty good.
Again, do you think the photos are good?
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Again, do you think the photos are good?
"Jon, 21, and Alex, 25, a gay couple, during an intimate moment" with off camera speedlite flash setup... hmmm... is it an intimate moment ?
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"List of winners for the 2015 photo contest" (http://www.worldpressphoto.org/2015-photo-contest/winners-list)
45 in 8 categories.
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Well, I thought the controversial photo of the male couple was pretty good, from an artistic point of view. It happened to be the most "in your face" photo in this particular photographer's photo essay about gays in Russia. And like it or not, Russia is in the news. Certainly there are other excellent photos out there, including other photo projects given the WPP awards this year. The fact that there have been forum flame wars on various photo forums indicates that the topic is controversial and thus presumably newsworthy. Admittedly, because this isn't a "if it bleeds, it leads" photo from a war zone, from police brutality, or from a natural disaster, it lacks the drama expected of a front page photo. Then we get into the philosophical question: are the "best" PJ photos by definition war, civil war / protest, or disaster photos? That is, does "best" PJ photo mean the photo that sells the most (papers, internet site hits, etc)? Would this definition exclude entertainment or other celebrity photos? The fuzzy paparazzi photo of Prince Charles with whats-her-name-not-his-wife, taken while he was married to Diana, certainly sold a lot of papers.