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For some unexplainable reason, if you look closely journalism borders on pornography. Some images that are presented in news media have a high level of explicit pornographic content and generate a kind of masturbatory vision of what you see. Thus, the size of the portrait or landscape, or the content of an action in space, is an act that can border on peacefulness or violence which then is called “journalism.” Under the “informative” label photojournalism can be free to expose or criticize that that is possible within its speech or Insight.
The question arises from the fictional point of view of what a single photograph generates. We have the recent case of the photo of the couple during a looting after a sports event that ended in a riot. If you recall, the picture shows a man and a woman, both young, probably between 20 and 30 , sharing a lovely kiss while sitting on the ground between fires and police brutality. The result: the perfect image, love can beat everything, “all you need is love ..” and so on. The context of the image, of course, coincided with the encamped protestors in Europe, Syria, and other revolutionary movements, an iconic image, the subject against the machine wins again in a fit of passion bordering on sexual erotic youth.
The truth of the picture was revealed soon after. The boy is comforting her partner after she received an unnoticed blow by the police. All the magic of the revolutionary idea dissolved, an online video showed the true picture: the girl is beaten, we hear desperate screams and tears, the boy tries to comfort her. The good thing is that social networks can contribute to this sort of ideas or iconic images that are deconstructed immediately. Love as the ideal output for revolution, where we turn tragedy of reality into violence. This is how photographic images are manipulated . Under political interests, marketing or propagandists ones , an image “speaks a thousand words” but the important thing now is that thanks to new technologies, weall have access to the possibility of creating our own images and thus, to propose new forms of subjectivities.
Knowledge then reveals the image is not in questioning, but is the result of its essential condition, on the other hand, there is a new fiction constructed from other media. The World Press Photo exhibition brings to the table this discussion and many others within the field of photojournalism. for a moment one of the images that won last year should be remembered , that of a woman who lost her nose and a piece of her face because of domestic violence. Clearly, that other picture was political, but that, that´s for another article. For more information, visit the following website: http://www.cccb.org/ca/exposicio-world_press_photo_11-39444
Get apartments in Barcelona and visit the new exhibition of the World Press Photo Association. Lets see what new surprises this “popular” exhibition of contemporary images brings this year.
Translated by: Marc
