French photographer wins World Press Photo < Gotta See This>

Reuters ^ | 13 February 2004 | Reuters

[Helms]

French photographer wins World Press Photo

13 February 2004

AMSTERDAM — French photographer Jean-Marc Bouju was named on Friday as the winner of the World Press Photo competition.

The international jury of the 47th annual World Press Photo, which is run from Amsterdam in the Netherlands, chose a colour image from Bouju that shows an Iraqi man comforting his 4-year-old-son at a Prisoner of War centre near Najaf, Iraq.

The picture was taken on 31 March 2003 and can be viewed at http://www.worldpressphoto.nl/index.jsp.

Some 4,176 professional photographers from 124 countries participated in this year’s contest, the premier annual international competition in press photography. More than 63,000 images were entered.

The organisers said 81 percent of the photographs entered, including Bouju's winning photo, were taken with a digital camera. The number of digital camera pictures submitted to the contest this year was the highest ever.

Bouju will receive his award and a cash prize of EUR 10,000 at an awards ceremony in the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, on Sunday 25 April 2004.

The ceremony will be preceded by a three-day program of lectures, discussions and screenings of photography. Two exhibitions will be shown in the Oude Kerk: the annual award-winning pictures and a special selection of Bouju's work.

The exhibitions are open to the public from 26 April through to 20 June and will subsequently visit more than 80 locations around the world.

Bouju works for the Associated Press news agency. He shared the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography with three photojournalists with the Associated Press. The team was awarded the prize for its coverage of the devastating ethnic violence in Rwanda.

Bouju's 1995 entry was a photograph of refugee children pleading to be allowed to cross a bridge from Rwanda to Zaire.

He also shared the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography with John McConnico, a former UT Department of Journalism student in Texas, and four other photographers.

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Subject: Dutch and French news

[Darksheare]

Seems someone noticed PipGorka's smell of Troll and hammered him.
He may be MOBY himself.

[Landru]

"Bouju works for the Associated Press news agency. He shared the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography with three photojournalists with the Associated Press."

FYI.

...how's *that* for a vast leftwing conspiracy.

[weegee]

This photo tells a more complete story:

It should win next year's Pulitzer because it reveals the media manipulation we see...

The woman is grieving, the small child out of camera shot is smiling.

The press is crowded in to get a "dramatic" shot. Conveniently they are located in front of a slogan that just happens to be in English.

[weegee]

Did Baghdad Bob or Al Jazeera win any awards?

[Darksheare]

Here's how I interpreted that English grafito there.
STOP
Kill the Palestin peeple.

Sounds like they're even getting tired of their own existence.
/ poor attempt at a joke.

Seriously, those reporters are slime.
And no-one there notices that kids grinning.
That woman is a good actor though.

[weegee]

-LESS?

[weegee]

In the close-up photo "Kill" looks like "Kill(ing)". Why waste paint for a photo op?

[weegee]

Seriously, those reporters are slime antisemites, using the media to tell a big lie.

[Darksheare]

Yeah.
They are kinda lazy in their propaganda.

[Darksheare]

Our local press wonders why I hate them.
They've asked me about it too.
I smile and walk away without telling them anything.

[beebuster2000]

hey- maybe its not a guy. ever think of that ? no?

[Darksheare]

*Gaaah!*
Forgot my manners!
Thanks for the ping!

[eleni121]

The real victims: Christians all over the world being butchered by Muslims

[Mr.Atos]

Certainly!

[WorkingClassFilth]

So touching! When did clinton grow a mustache?

[GreenCell]

Since art is interpreted by the individual, this is a great picture......."Son, I was a terrorist, I did wrong and now have to suffer the consequences...go and live a life absent of terrorist activities"
Shows me that terrorism is wrong and he's giving up his son to a better life.....

[The Raven]

I wish I knew the secret code words to become a hero to the liberals.

What's so hard about free markets, free people, free countries, and playing by the rules?

[SWake]

Well, they can shoot off their mouths, too.

[ForGod'sSake]

Bouju works for the Associated Press news agency.

Heh heh; now that is a surprise. NOT!

My choice would have probably been a little more earthy.

FGS

[chainsaw]

It is sad, and I too feel for the son, however that father should have thought things over before becomming a terrorist pledged to kill others. At least this boy still has a father to hug.