Etiqueta: crónica

El jurado del World Press Photo (Ayperi Karabuda Ecer) destacó que ‘la foto es el principio de algo, el principio de una gran historia. Anade perspectiva a la noticia. Toca visualmente y emocionalmente y mi corazón sale a por ella inmediatamente’.

En el suplemento CRÓNICA (EL MUNDO) de este fin de semana, la periodista Catalina Gómez entrevista a Pietro Masturzo en Beirut: ‘Recuerdo que cuando vi a esas mujeres solas en esa terraza del sur de Teherán me sobrecogieron’.
‘Cuando oí los primeros gritos, en la noche de las elecciones, me dije enseguida que tenía que subir a la terraza a ver lo que pasaba’.
‘Esa noche supe que ésta iba a ser mi manera de contar las protestas’.
Masturzo no cree que ‘para contar una buena historia haya que arriesgar la vida. Muchas veces sólo hay que ser inteligente’.

Otras opiniones:

Fellow juror Guy Tillim commented: «The difficulty in photographing conflict situations is one of portraying the parallel lives involved, of people going on with their lives. This picture has made a very good attempt at marrying these two elements, in giving the conflict a context – and that is a holy grail of photography. The photographer does it with a very beautiful image of an Iranian landscape, which would be worth looking at in itself. But it also arouses our curiosity about the woman shouting – incorporating this moment, the importance of this historical event. It represents a very honest and successful attempt at taking forward our vocabulary of showing things.»

Juror Kate Edwards said: «The photo has a powerful sense of atmosphere, tension, fear – but also of quietness and calm, and in this sense was a challenge as a choice. We were looking for an image that drew you in, took you deeper, made you think more – not just about showing what we already know, but something that asks more of us.»