Posted on 03/29/2024 9:16:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the arts these days, they insist that context is everything.
So what is one to make of this vile picture, of Hamas terrorists from the October 7 massacre proudly posing with their 'kill' on the bed of a pickup truck, the mangled, mutilated, body of a 22-year old woman, proudly preening and posing for their trusted photographer from the Associated Press?
Shame on @RJI for awarding @AP 'Picture of the Year' award, of this image, which their Hamas-embedded photographer took of Shani Louk, as she was murdered, violated and thrown on back of pick-up truck!
You must be so proud? pic.twitter.com/A9IuDx912g — Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) March 28, 2024
I thought lefties didn't like photographs of big-game hunters posing with their gratuitous kills. Seems there's an exception now, if the 'trophy' is a woman and a Jew.
According to the New York Post:
A sickening image of Hamas terrorists parading a slain woman’s nearly naked body through the streets of Gaza has been awarded a prestigious photo-of-the-year prize — sparking fierce outrage from those who slammed the win as “an outrageous desecration of Jewish life.”
The grim photo featuring Shani Louk’s body was among a collection of 20 images that helped the Associated Press secure first place in one of the Pictures of the Year International award categories earlier this month.
The awards, which are run by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, are self-described as the world’s oldest photojournalism competition.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Vile? Yes, the action is vile, but the photograph is not. It must be seen. Like the self immolating Buddhist monk, The napalmed Vietnamese girl running and burning, the fireman carrying a dead baby away from the Murrah building, hundreds of 9/11 photos and hundreds more.
Vile, but necessary.
Sick.
Symbolically, this might be the biggest middle finger ever raised to the Israelis.
Their sickness and depravity astonishes me.
It shouldn’t, but it does.
Sick bastards.
Wonder if the pic would have won if a loved one of the voting staff’s family was in that back of that pickup truck bed ??
No, not really necessary
Agree. Gruesome as it is, this will get more exposure in the media for the unspeakable evil that is Hamas.
wasn’t the photog one of the terrorists?
I agree. Photojournalism is often shocking.
I’m not sure why there is opposition on our side to this picture. It adds credibility to the war against terrorism.
Perhaps but AP is a putrid cesspool of leftist scumbags so their motives for running this pic has nothing to do with bringing condemnation on the terrorists.
Artistically, it’s not that good a photo either. Barrel distortion, not level, badly cropped...
Evidently the mods with their high standards of snowflakery were upset as well. They deleted the picture.
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Get used to it — it’s the religion of peace.
You don’t think so?
You don’t think much of our nazified White House, do you?
Oh you of little faith on this holy Friday.
Get used to the fact that this country now supports Hamas and Hezbollah. I wonder if JB has read his daily passage from Mein Kampf yet?
“AP” = “America’s Enemy”
Has, since WWII, and always will...
That photo proves there are zero innocents in Gaza. The man/woman on the street cheered and tried to get close enough to spit on the body.
On a happy note, the IDF killed that savage standing over Ms. Louck’s body. Now they need to kill the rest.
Fake news are no better than Nazis
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