This photo I chosen to analysis was the winner of the World Press Photo awards of 2006.It was taken in a street in Haret Hreik, a neighborhood in Lebanon. The neighborhood had been targeted five weeks and eventually bombed for a campaign against Hezbollah militants. The photo was taken at the time that ceasefire came into force and thousands of Lebanese rush back to their home.
At the first glance, the picture can be really disturbing. In the font, you can see the young and beautiful woman with a model look just wearing their sunglasses and chilling in their shiny red convertible car. It remind people the image from either James Dean in Rebel without a Cause, driving his fast car or some photo spread from Vogue. It was really glamorous. But with the background of people walking around their collapsed home. The contrast just makes the photo really bizarre and disturbing to watch. You cannot help yourself but wonder, what were they doing there?
But there are another story to the picture. In an interview with BBC news, the photographer and the young people in the picture review that actually live there and the car is actually lent form the girlfriend of the guy who is driving the car. The car also played a big role in the war, they took medication to people in these area who refused or cannot leave their home. [Source:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6385969.stm]
It actually provide a quite different side of story, what inspire me is that can we still trust our eyes with just one photo? Nevertheless, this is still a good photo when it can create a huge contrast and discussion.
At the first glance, the picture can be really disturbing. In the font, you can see the young and beautiful woman with a model look just wearing their sunglasses and chilling in their shiny red convertible car. It remind people the image from either James Dean in Rebel without a Cause, driving his fast car or some photo spread from Vogue. It was really glamorous. But with the background of people walking around their collapsed home. The contrast just makes the photo really bizarre and disturbing to watch. You cannot help yourself but wonder, what were they doing there?
But there are another story to the picture. In an interview with BBC news, the photographer and the young people in the picture review that actually live there and the car is actually lent form the girlfriend of the guy who is driving the car. The car also played a big role in the war, they took medication to people in these area who refused or cannot leave their home. [Source:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6385969.stm]
It actually provide a quite different side of story, what inspire me is that can we still trust our eyes with just one photo? Nevertheless, this is still a good photo when it can create a huge contrast and discussion.
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