I'm never quite prepared for the intensity of the World Press Photo Exhibit. I'm always very excited to go, and then get stopped in my excitement tracks when I get there. I start having to breathe slower, prepare myself for what's around the corner. Zahra made the comment yesterday as we stepped from image to image, that what is hard to process is that there had to be someone there to take the photo. There had to be someone watching the man getting shot, the baby being burried, the gas main breaking, the boy waiting for interrogation by US troops in Iraq. It's hard to imagine being there.
Some of the ones that stuck with me include:
A ruined town in Kashmir, with rows and rows of men praying towards Mecca in the rubble of their mosque (
Espen Rasmussen)
The juxtaposition of a group of African migrants arriving on the shores of the Canary Islands, and the bikini-clad toursits they enountered (
Arturo Rodriguez)
Contestants in the Ms. Senior Sweetheart beauty pagent (
Magnus Wennman)
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