Forum: Photography


Subject: Outrage over National Photographic Portrait Prize award

TwoPynts opened this issue on Mar 30, 2009 · 31 posts


danob posted Wed, 01 April 2009 at 6:26 AM

Beauty they say is in the eye of the beholder..  As I said at the outset the image on the wall with the winner in front with the two boys seemed to me to be in another class to the others of this same image, on any of the links..

Subjective observations may reveal a whole host of possibilities,  They talk of love of the father for his son's for example.. Maybe so, I also saw it could be interpreted another way,  are the boys looking just a tad  coerced into standing there with froth on the face ,and almost at atttention!   I can imagine they may be thinking, I hope none of my mates see this!!

The other aspects are important, and we can argue if  this image  may have been by accident or by design..  We can give the benefit of the doubt, and for sure the guy is laughing all the way to the bank in any case.

Danny O'Byrne  http://www.digitalartzone.co.uk/

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice" Eliott Erwitt