Jury prose is sometimes pathetic, occasionally pointed, but sometimes irritatingly subscribed to the aesthetic conceptual field. Regarding the image of Mohammed Salem, which was declared World Press Photo of the Year, the statement says it describes a “powerful and sad moment that encapsulates the general feeling of what happened in the Gaza Strip.” Somehow nothing in this sentence is right, neither the tone nor the oxymoron “strong-sad” fits and certainly not the reference to a general feeling. Because what would that be? What happened and is happening in the Gaza Strip is not a feeling, but a war in which all conceivable atrocities that have actually become unthinkable in the 21st century have become reality and images.
World Press Photo: Impressive Pietà culture
