World Press Photo Award

Posted by murmini Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:52:05 GMT

I saw this photograph on the BBC back in the summer and thought at the time how contradictory it was. Well it has now won the 50th annual World Press Photo Contest. It shows a group of young Lebanese driving through a South Beirut neighborhood in a MINI cabrio that seems so out of place amidst all the carnage.

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  1. Ian C. said about 18 hours later:

    Very strange picyture – is it supposed to be “natural” (ie: not staged)?

  2. MiniMUM said 1 day later:

    As the wife of a photojourmalist and WPP award winner, I can assure you, that this is a real moment, captured by a journalist, not staged at all. It’s an extraordinary moment, I think.

  3. murmini said 1 day later:

    It truly does have an almost surreal quality to it. When I first saw this picture I felt I should not post it on the site – just because it had a MINI in it… The MINI community often shares images of our favored vehicle as we see it appear in the mainstream media. I stopped short then… it is a very powerful picture and needed to be seen more in context. Seeing it again, after the winning of this award, it seems somehow, to have made the context very real.

  4. R.Ballardini said 1 day later:

    Wow, I can’t imagine dealing with those conditions on a daily basis. 3 in the back seat that’s something.

  5. Susan Isaacs said 3 days later:

    This is a great picture…the collision of two realities. Makes me sad. I’m not surprised it won.

  6. QWKSLVR said 8 days later:

    Murray..I’m glad you posted it…I am just taken aback by each young persons’ facial expressions as they ‘motor’ through the wreckage…

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