{"id":1293,"date":"2009-05-13T19:03:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T19:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2009-05-13T19:40:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T19:40:53","slug":"1293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/13\/1293\/","title":{"rendered":"ANYWHERE BUT HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an article by Paul Lowe on the <a title=\"Foto 8 blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/home\/content\/blogcategory\/81\/226\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foto 8 blog<\/a> where he writes\u00c2\u00a0about this year&#8217;s <a title=\"2009 World Press Photo Awards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpressphoto.org\/index.php?option=com_photogallery&amp;task=blogsection&amp;id=19&amp;Itemid=223&amp;bandwidth=high\" target=\"_blank\">World Press Photo Awards<\/a>. You can read it <a title=\"Paul Lowe review of World Press Photo Awards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/home\/content\/view\/858\/216\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lowe\u00c2\u00a0quotes the outgoing chairman of the awards (and director of VII photo agency), Stephen Mayes-<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;ccommentating that 90% of the pictures submitted were about 10% of the world, he questioned why most photojournalism investigates a very limited series of tropes in a very limited series of visual approaches, becoming a self replicating machine that churns of copies of itself in perpetual motion, which he described as a &#8216;feeling that photojournalism, rather than trying to reinvent itself its trying to copy itself &#8216;, and that the industry is in essence reactionary and unrealistic in its understanding of the changes in global media and society.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Too many photographers are &#8216;reflecting the media not as it is but as we wish it was&#8217; and assuming that it is the world that must come to them, not they that must go to the world. Bemoaning the surfeit of stories about the &#8216;Dispossessed and powerless, the exotic and anywhere but home&#8217; he encouraged photographers to &#8216;photograph what really, really intrigues you&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an article by Paul Lowe on the Foto 8 blog where he writes\u00c2\u00a0about this year&#8217;s World Press Photo Awards. You can read it here. Lowe\u00c2\u00a0quotes the outgoing chairman of the awards (and director of VII photo agency), Stephen Mayes- &#8220;&#8230;ccommentating that 90% of the pictures submitted were about 10% of the world, he questioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}