Cameras, Cameras
Photographic journalism forbids the fictive, but like perception, many things come together. The work of journalism does not stand alone. It is not only the work of the photographers, but also their technology, and those who view it.
Goenawan Mohamad
November 29, 2021
—from the World Press Photo exhibition at the Erasmus Huis, Jakarta
TWO people embracing in an old people’s home outside of Sao Paulo, Brazil, as the highly infectious Covid-19 is raging. It looks as though they have been separated for a long time: their embrace is like an explosion of joy—but at the same time a sign of the fragility of life: they embrace separated by a plastic sheet.
Mads Nissen, a Danish photographer who was
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