Thanks to EPUK for sending me a link to a dramatic set of large images of recent events in Mumbai on the Boston Globe site.
Last week I went to see the World Press Photo exhibition, on show at the Festival Hall on London’s South Bank until Dec 7. Worth a visit if you are passing, though you can also see the work online. Some of it possibly looks better on the screen than on the wall, although other images are more impressive on a large scale.
WPP does sometimes seem to be more about the dramatic nature of the incident than the quality of the photography – though often the two coincide. But there are a few images on the Boston Globe roundup that I would not be surprised to see featuring in the 2009 prizewinners. It is incidentally, one of the easiest contests to submit an entry to, and it is free to enter – if one of the hardest to win. You have until 15 Jan to send in your work,whether over the internet or by courier.
