Young Lebanese drive through devastated neighborhood of South Beirut, 15 August.
Posted on 02/12/2007 10:11:49 AM PST by NYer
The international jury of the 50th annual World Press Photo Contest selected a color image of the US photographer Spencer Platt of Getty Images as World Press Photo of the Year 2006. Click here for the award winning picture.
The picture shows a group of young Lebanese driving through a South Beirut neighborhood devastated by Israeli bombings. The picture was taken on 15 August 2006, the first day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah when thousands of Lebanese started returning to their homes.
World Press Photo jury chair Michele McNally describes the winning image: "It's a picture you can keep looking at. It has the complexity and contradiction of real life, amidst chaos. This photograph makes you look beyond the obvious."
This year 4,460 professional photographers from 124 countries entered 78,083 images in the most prestigious annual international competition in press photography. The judging sessions took place in Amsterdam from 27 January to 8 February. The jury gave prizes in 10 theme categories to 58 photographers of 23 nationalities from: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Palestinian Territories, People's Republic of China, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the USA.
The 2007 jury:
Chair:
Michele McNally (USA), assistant managing editor The New York Times
Members:
Peter Bialobrzeski (Germany), photographer Laif Photos & Reportagen
Philip Blenkinsop (Australia), photographer Agence Vu
Ruth Eichhorn (Germany), director of photography Geo
Adrian Evans (UK), director Panos Pictures
Maya Goded (Mexico), photographer Magnum Photos
Diego Goldberg (Argentina), photographer
Wen Huang (People's Republic of China), picture editor Xinhua News Agency
Alexander Joe (Zimbabwe), photographer Agence France-Presse
Jerry Lampen (the Netherlands), photographer Reuters
Jean-François Leroy (France), director Visa pour l'Image
Maria Mann (USA), photography consultant
Secretary:
Stephen Mayes (UK), director image archive Art + Commerce Anthology
 Spencer Platt, the author of the World Press Photo of the Year 2006, will receive his award and a cash prize of 10,000 euro at the awards ceremony in the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, on Sunday 22 April 2007. In addition, Canon will donate Platt a Canon Pro SLR camera. The awards ceremony is preceded by a three-day program of lectures, discussions and screenings of photography. Three exhibitions will be shown at the Oude Kerk: the annual award-winning pictures, a special selection of Platt's work and a theme exhibition about climate change in Africa, documented by African photojournalists. The exhibitions are open to the public from 24 April to 17 June and the annual exhibition will subsequently visit over 85 locations around the world. For a provisional exhibition schedule see: www.worldpressphoto.nl/exhibitions. World Press Photo receives support from the Dutch Postcode Lottery and is sponsored worldwide by Canon and TNT. ------------------------ Editors please note: A selection of the winning images is available on the international wire services of Reuters, ANP, AP, AFP and EPA. It is also possible to download the images from our Press Download Area. To access the Press Download Area you are required to register for an account. |
Ping!
Where's Green Helmet Guy?
Is Reuters going to win the World Press Photoshop Contest?
Those hussies better get their burkhas on.
only if the Katrina Heineken guy is in the picture
Another oddity:
The 2 guys on the extreme right and the girl (center) in the car, all 3 seem to be on/using cell phones.
And several of them seem to be looking at something that would be to the back of the photographer. Note the guy standing in the center background, the girl in white in the front seat and the 2 (girl, guy) in the back seat of the car.
Any idea what kind of car? I know someone will know.
yeah right- that looks liek southern California to me.
It also says that these kids weren't worried about the Israelis possibly bombing THEM! Most Lebanese weren't worried about the Israeli bombing. They knew that, unlike Hezbollah, the Israelis were not targeting innocent civilians, press hype notwithstanding.
And, if you follow the line of the windshield from the front of the picture to the front of the male driver, it appears that the car could NOT have passed some big, metal container without crushing it.
I'd guess mini cooper.
Only because you're wondering "Why did this rate anything??????"
I was trying to figure that one out myself. Except for the palm in the background, it almost looks like Humboldt Park in the summer.
Yup- probably excluded from the contest were Israeli photographers that captured Kassam rockets flying toward a market filled with mothers and young children, just before impact, showing the absolute horror on the folks faces as they realized they were about to be murdered in cold blood!,
or probably excluded from the contest were photos of body parts flying out a window as a bomb blows up in a Jewish wedding, and wedding guests running from the building only to run smack dab into a car bomber istting outside waiting to murder anyone who tried to escape!
Or,...
This pic looks like it could've been taken here in Detroit.
The women in the car (looks to be a Merc convertible) are fine examples of Lebanese pulchitrude.
With apologies to lazz,
I'd hit it early and often.
Don't defend your way of life. Blame the US, blame Israel, then go party.
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