I have been visiting the World Press Photo (WPP) Exhibition since last year. This is partly because I admire photography & also appreciate the great work that’s done by the photo journalists around the globe. It’s really amazing how these guys work under the most unfriendliest sometime hostile situation to bring to us these myriad talking images.
This year again the exhibition is being held at Express Towers, which is right next to where I work. The highlight this time is that an Indian photographer, Arko Dutta has won the first prize in the Spot News category. He has shot a woman lying on the ground grieving the death of her relatives during the killer tsunami disaster in Southern India. Looking at the images I could gather what’s going on in the other parts of the world. There are some images that have left an indelible mark on my mind – a picture of some russian men sitting atop a booster rocket playing, women in South Africa who are victims of domestic violence and a chilling fact of how a woman is raped every 26 seconds in that country, pictures of young american soldiers grievously wounded in the strife-torn Iraq and still living, some really disturbing images of the genocide at Darfur and many such moments captured permanently on camera. Rest assured I am going back again to relive each one of them once again.
I like Arko’s pic
Lesse If i can catch it, planning on going either on 31st Dec or 7th Jan
Don’t miss it. It’s the only time when we come to know what else is happening outside our world :-)