While the image that has scooped first prize in the 2015 World Press Photo Awards - a stark picture of a baby being passed beneath a barbed-wire barricade by a migrant - isn't conventionally remarkable in a technical sense, its graininess and blurring undoubtedly contribute to the overall effect, and its virtue is its simplicity. Chair of the jury Francis Kohn underlined its value as a critical document of the current predicament - "We thought it had almost everything in there to give a strong visual of what's happening with the refugees" - though also argued that "at the same time it's timeless".
It's vital that such photos are taken and publicised - as was shown with the case of Aylan Kurdi back in September, images often do prove more effective than both rhetoric and statistics in bringing about positive change.
Friday, February 19, 2016
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