Link: Beirut and contradiction: reading the World Press Photo award Mai Ghoussoub - openDemocracy.
The photo won the award on 9 February 2007 because, according to the jury, it shows Lebanon's contradictions. World Press Photo jury chair Michele McNally describes the winning image: "It's a picture you can keep looking at. It has the complexity and contradiction of real life, amidst chaos. This photograph makes you look beyond the obvious."
(((Welcome to the social web – unless I miss my guess, one of the women in this photo is actually TAKING a photo with that phonecam in her mitt. And it probably shows the award-winning photojournalist.)))
