OK news photography is news and has to be shown to help, inform and maybe change the world. but World Press Photo Exhibition 07 is an Exhibition some images show suffering and died, in this context can this be classed as art? or are the images been used out of context?
http://www.worldpressphoto.|||This is more up the road of philosophy than photography. I checked the link and indeed there is much suffering, but there is much suffering in the world.
You could call it art, since art is in the eye of the beholder. The very nature of the creation of art is to create deep emotion, and this type of art indeed does that. Its not a happy feel good emotion, yet its deep and moving.
I think you are subtly asking if it is wrong for these photographers to record such images and use them in exhibitions to gain prizes. Again this is more for a philosopher than a photographer. It must be grim to see such things and the only thing you can do is to validate that it really did happen this way. For a photographer to get involved would make them a victim of the circumstances that they are trying to record. They would have no more assumed amunity, and you would never see their photos.
To have an exhibition like world press photo only keeps a light on the atrocities that happen around the world. Ignorance is bliss yet if we forget the past we are doomed to repeat it.|||How can you confuse press and art photography?
Theres lots of suffering in the world and its news thats why they are in the %26quot;world press photo exhibition%26quot;.
These things are distasteful however they must be shown as they are the true cost of things like %26quot;war%26quot;, without the images many just think its something that isnt really happening.
Like the torture of prisoners for example, all sides in war do it, some have to see the pictures to believe it.
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