by Libya S.O.S.
“The World Press Photo jury has selected a New York Times photo taken in Yemen last fall as the photo of the year for its encapsulation of the anguish that accompanied the Arab Spring uprisings,” says Dylan Stableford , a senior media reporter for Yahoo News.
“The World Press Photo jury has selected a New York Times photo taken in Yemen last fall as the photo of the year for its encapsulation of the anguish that accompanied the Arab Spring uprisings,” says Dylan Stableford , a senior media reporter for Yahoo News.
"A thin man rests his head on the shoulder of a burqa-clad woman, the pair collapsed together against a wall," Kerri McDonald writes on the New York Times Lens blog. "The expression on her face can't be seen. But her body language (right arm wrapped tightly around his neck, left hand clinging to his arm)conveys everything her expression cannot.”
New York Times photographer Samuel Aranda took the shot (which the Times describes as having "the mood of a Renaissance painting") at the entrance to a mosque-turned-hospital.
Koyo Kouoh, one of the jurors, added: "It stands for Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, for all that happened in the Arab Spring.”
Now let’s see this “spontaneously”-taken, pathetic-sounding photo of the year:
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| Photo of the Year 2011 - Muslim Style Pieta |
For Imperialist propaganda purposes maybe?
I mean for a start, it looks painfully obvious that the inspiration for this pose was Michelangelo Buonarroti’s Pieta sculpture.
Origin of the term Pieta:
"It was associated by Romans with the duty humans owed their gods".
