The jury has made its decision; the best press photo of the year is Anthony Suau’s black and white photograph about a police officer in an American home after the eviction of its inhabitants.
Without seeing the other contestants, I have to say I like this choice. The image is strong and definitely important; the current economic crisis is playing havoc with normal lives on both sides of the Atlantic.
What this image does need is a caption or a story to accompagny it. Otherwise you could end up thinking that it is about a drug bust, or an antiterroristic operation, or whatever. I don’t think that the necessity of the caption makes the image any weaker, though – but then, I have always been for the cooperation of text and image. The picture does not need to tell the whole story in itself. How could it?
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