World Press Photo - a jury member reveals

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The World Press Photo has been handing out annual awards to professionals for

the past 51 years, and has just announced its winners for 2007 (the photograph

above won first prize for 'spot news'). We were asked to participate as jury

members in awarding the prizes this year; a good opportunity to gauge the vital

signs of a photographic genre in crisis.

 

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The twelve strong Jury must endure a barrage of photographic clichés over a

period of seven days and nights, in order to locate one single image, the World

Press Photo of the year. There are also prizes for photographs in a variety of

categories, but it is this single image that gets the real attention. How do

twelve people reach a consensus? And what criteria could possibly be used to

nominate just one image?

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