Browse the portfolio of the winners of World Press Photo, the prestigious photography competition homonym Dutch foundation, is a useful exercise in ethics and aesthetics. This year, a name, however, check (for us) at all, because Daniel Tamagni (the information in our database photographers), ranked second in the Arts and Entertainment Stories, won with just a report from Bolivia published exclusively in Italy Style Trends for the number of October 2010.
They are the fighters las cholitas, flying into the ring with their colorful skirts, "taking punches to the macho mentality." All the shots of the competition, covering the major events of the past with surgical precision (from Haiti to Pakistan, to the phenomenon Julian Assange), so that we do not forget just about anything.
So no one will forget (how could that happen?) Of what has happened to Aisha Bibi in the remote province of Afghanistan can not remember the name. His portrait, taken by South African Jodi Bieber, is the winner of World Press Photo 2011, one of those images which will be discussed in a few years "but yes, you remember the photo of the Afghan girl, some time ago ...." Yes, it will remain in the collective memory of the girl's face without a nose and ears done on the cover of Time, who fled from an abusive husband and the Taliban.
Rewarded because, according to the jury: "It's incredibly sharp photos. Send a message to all those women who still live in miserable conditions, suffering and violence. The gun is powerful because she is so full of dignity, iconic. " On the podium in the various categories many Italians Riccardo Venturi, Massimo Berruti, Marco Di Lauro, Ivo Sagle, Fabio Cuttica, Stefano Unterthiner and Davide Monteleone (which on Style Trend in February published an intense photo essays from the Caucasus).
The winning photos will turn Europe into a series of exhibitions in Italy and you can see them in Rome from April 29 to May 23 (Museo di Roma in Trastevere) and Milan from May 4 to May 31 (Galleria Carla Sozzani). All the photos in the slideshow winners of World Press Photo 2011. 
They are the fighters las cholitas, flying into the ring with their colorful skirts, "taking punches to the macho mentality." All the shots of the competition, covering the major events of the past with surgical precision (from Haiti to Pakistan, to the phenomenon Julian Assange), so that we do not forget just about anything.
So no one will forget (how could that happen?) Of what has happened to Aisha Bibi in the remote province of Afghanistan can not remember the name. His portrait, taken by South African Jodi Bieber, is the winner of World Press Photo 2011, one of those images which will be discussed in a few years "but yes, you remember the photo of the Afghan girl, some time ago ...." Yes, it will remain in the collective memory of the girl's face without a nose and ears done on the cover of Time, who fled from an abusive husband and the Taliban.
Rewarded because, according to the jury: "It's incredibly sharp photos. Send a message to all those women who still live in miserable conditions, suffering and violence. The gun is powerful because she is so full of dignity, iconic. " On the podium in the various categories many Italians Riccardo Venturi, Massimo Berruti, Marco Di Lauro, Ivo Sagle, Fabio Cuttica, Stefano Unterthiner and Davide Monteleone (which on Style Trend in February published an intense photo essays from the Caucasus).
The winning photos will turn Europe into a series of exhibitions in Italy and you can see them in Rome from April 29 to May 23 (Museo di Roma in Trastevere) and Milan from May 4 to May 31 (Galleria Carla Sozzani). All the photos in the slideshow winners of World Press Photo 2011.
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