Taniwharthog directed me this site: the World Press Photo of the Year gallery. Damned good photos, all of them. Some of them are simply beautiful. Some are tragic. Some are playful. Some of them make a person uncomfortable.
Some are very hard to look at, gory, and stained with death and violence, but I think they're definitely worth viewing anyway. I think we need to see those photos to remind us how other people around the world suffer while we have the luxury ruminate on silly things like bicycles. I think we need to see the photos to remind us that inaction has real consequences, just as careless action does.
It's a very powerful gallery.
Some are very hard to look at, gory, and stained with death and violence, but I think they're definitely worth viewing anyway. I think we need to see those photos to remind us how other people around the world suffer while we have the luxury ruminate on silly things like bicycles. I think we need to see the photos to remind us that inaction has real consequences, just as careless action does.
It's a very powerful gallery.