Stunning imagery from Photojournalism Seminar winners
Mikey 6 comments
These images are among the most amazing, beautiful, bizarre and tragic you will see in a while.
Regular reader Jasmin (thanks) just sent me this link: The 2007 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Contest Winners. The image are available for viewing on this page. I have mirrored some of them below.
Edmund Fountain, St. Petersburg Times. Max Prindle, 5, enjoys a fall afternoon by jumping on a trampoline in his neighbor's backyard in Masaryktown. Prindle was off from school observing the holiday of Veteran's Day. "Fall Free Fall"
Ahmad Reza Halabisaz, Associated Press. Iranian police officers and others view the scene as five convicted criminals are hanged in a neighborhood of Mashad, northwest of Tehran, Iran, Aug. 1, 2007. "Hanged"
Justin Maxon, San Francisco State University. Trun Van Pha, 5, hugs his mother, Ly Thi Mui, 42, as they sit in the grass next to the Red River in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Chip Litherland, Sarasota Herald Tribune. Mennonite Joyce Sauder watches as a 100-acre wildfire rages behind her house nearing the Fox Creek neighborhood in Sarasota, Florida. Sauder said that as she saw the flames approaching, "I prayed about it and it's whatever happens, happens.
Adem Hadei, Associated Press. A woman takes her dead son into her arms, as she grieves for her six-year-old son, Dhiya Thamer, who was killed when their family car came under fire by unknown gunmen in Baqouba, capital of Iraq's Diyala province, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007. The boy's ten-year old brother, Qusay, was injured in the attack as the family returned from enrolling the children in school, where Dhiya was to begin his first year. "Last Touch"
Franken
Friday 8th February 2008 | 03:22 PMWow...just wow. You really have to have kids of your own to really feel the tragedy of that last photo.
Hey Muzza. Not surprising you would be among the first to comment here ;-)
@ Franken: Bullseye.
Trev
Friday 8th February 2008 | 04:08 PMBS Frank I can see how sad the pic is without kids.
Trev - it's not BS. When you hear people say 'you have to have kids to understand or appreciate it' it isn't because they like hearing the sound of their own voice. It's because parents have a frame of reference that non-parents don't.
But I used to have the exact same opinion as you before I became a Dad. I could see pictures like that and know it was tragic and sad, and anything else you could think of.
The moment you hold your first child in you arm - the love is instantaneous and unconditional - and it changes the way you see and interact in this world. It's a feeling that can't be put into words.
When I see photos like that now I can vividly imagine what it would be like if it were me holding my own child in that situation.
andrew
Saturday 9th February 2008 | 07:08 PMthat last pic cuts you right to the bone.....innocence of children being caght up in someone elses war!!
Muzza
Friday 8th February 2008 | 03:14 PMWow. There are some moving images there. Makes me appreciate the country I live in even more!