What's behind the news

The moment of history is easy, and it is hard to make it history。

With regard to photography, in the context of today's era of popularization of smartphones, major smartphone manufacturers have used sophisticated camera configurations as a selling point. While there are waves of marketing booms, the basic function of back-to-back photography is simply to record that mobile phone photography has led us to a stage where we record our own self-expression to the greatest extent possible, and to make our records look like a more “pretty” level。

And talking about itPress photographyIts specificity is not just the art and aesthetics it embodies. And beyond art and aesthetics. They record an age, a history, not just the people and the environment in the plane, but the radiation that penetrates the picture。

An image, a history

OnePulitzer prizePress awards

The pulitzer press prize, founded in 1917 on the will of joseph plitzer, the american father of the press, has become the highest honour of the american press, consisting of 14 press prizes and 7 creative prizes, known as the “nobel prize for the press”。

1. The breaking news photography prize: reuters

Reuters's photo team has shown the tension, despair and sadness of migrants en route from central and south america to the united states through lively visual narratives。

On 24 october 2018, at sunrise, an immigrant girl en route from huixtla to mapastepec, mexico, carrying her luggage and travelling to the united states in a caravan with thousands of people in central america. Photo by adreeslatif

On 28 september 2018, a rooster passed by the bodies of members of the barrio-18 gang in san pedro sula, honduras. Photo by goran tomasevic

On 20 october 2018, at the mexican-guatemala border checkpoint, an immigrant boy from central america cried out of heat and humidity. Photo: edgard garrido

2. Specialized photography award awarded to washington post

The washington post photographer lorenzo tugnoli filmed the holodomor during the war in yemen, where the civil war began in 2015, and where millions of yemenis were facing severe food shortages, depicting the intersection between warmth, calm and destruction in yemen。

On 31 december 2018, a woman walked through a destroyed building in the al-jahmaliya area. The area has been severely damaged in fighting between the hutu rebels in yemen and local militias, who are trying to regain the city. Recently, fighting between the various militias controlling the city destroyed the area. Photo by lorenzo tugnoli

On 31 december 2018, abdul saleh, three years old, lay in a small bed, unable to walk and speak, and his father, saleh abdul ahmed, watched him in the yard of a family in al-jarb, yemen. His wife left a few days ago because ahmad had no way to save the boy. Surprisingly, an occasional visit by a medical staff member, with the help of the only paediatric nurse in the area, might have saved his life. "i'm waiting for god's fate," ahmad said. Photo by lorenzo tugnol

On 31 december 2018, jamela abdullah stood at the entrance to a house without roofs, and her family had lived for two months after escaping fighting in their village of al-jarahi. The emergence of refugee camps in the region has put additional pressure on western aid agencies and hospitals, known as the “most serious humanitarian crisis in history”. Photo by lorenzo tugnoli

Ii. World press photography prize (also known as the dutch prize)

The dutch prize is the world press photo competition (world press photo, known as “wpp”, commonly known as “hosai”, hosted by the netherlands-based world news photo foundation (world press photo foundation). It was founded in 1955 and is known as hosseil because it was launched in the netherlands. It is considered the most authoritative event in international professional journalism photography competitions. Since the first world news photography competition in 1957, 61 events have been held by 2018。

1. Press series: agence france-presse direct voices

19 june 2019, khartoum, sudan. During the power outage, a man recited protest poems among demonstrators holding light on their hands. Protests in the sudan were reported to have started in december 2018 and spread rapidly throughout the country

2. Monographs on contemporary issues: agence france-presse forest fire evacuation unit

31 december 2019, new south wales, australia. Abigail ferris, wearing a mask, is playing with his little friends in a temporary evacuation。

In the chadian city of bor, an orphan passed through a wall in which paintings depicted rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Lake chad, once one of the largest lakes in africa and the lifeline of 40 million people in the region, has been reduced by 90 per cent over the past 60 years for a variety of reasons, including unplanned irrigation, prolonged drought, deforestation and poor resource management。

The drying up of traditional livelihoods, such as fisheries, has led to ongoing clashes between farmers and pastoralists, allowing boko haram, an active jihadist in the area, to enter and use local villages as recruitment sites。

Two women folded a banner at the eve international arts festival in ireland. Some women social activists use art to discuss topics that have been banned in conservative societies. On 25 may 2018, the irish public majority overthrew the anti-abortion act, one of the most stringent abortion laws in the world, which ruled that no pregnancy resulting from rape and incest could be aborted。

3. Environmental cluster: national geography

For centuries, industrialized countries have followed a linear economic model of “waste as a treasure”: collect raw materials, convert them into products, then sell them and eventually be discarded as waste. This pattern, however, not only consumes natural resources but also energy, contributing to global warming by relying on fossil fuels。

The circular economy offers another option by delinking economic activity from the depletion of limited resources. As part of the response to the climate crisis, farmers, manufacturers and governments around the globe are taking measures to test and implement the circular economy。

IiiChina news prize

The chinese press prize is the highest national prize of excellence approved by the central government. It is selected by the national association of journalists of china and has been selected since 1991, once a year。

Photo taken by the news crew, anhui daily, passing light

A full account of the news event, the transplantation of the cornea, was carried out by following up on the entire ophthalmic donor process. It is important to raise awareness of the importance of organ donation. The theme of giving selfless love that leads the recipient from darkness to light has played a positive role in promoting the positive energies of society。

When one remembers one person or another, the most representative picture is often in mind. As a graphic image, even though the current video is not as vivid as it is, the expression is detailed. But one thing that's better than video is that it's just a moment of static, giving people a long-term insight。

Today, news photography is probably the worst of times, with the spread of smartphones and technologies, an unimaginable speed of internet transmission, and news photography seems to have fallen off the stage of specialization。

On 9 july 2005, in a subway explosion in london, the passengers alexander chadwick filmed the chaos of the emergency evacuation using his mobile phone. On the same day, the front pages of the new york times and the washington post were all photographs taken by chadwick, the first time a mobile phone photo appeared on the front pages of traditional media。

In 2010, when we experienced a major 7. 1-degree earthquake in the zinghai tree, the first-time news photos of the news coming out of our news agency xinhua were also sent via colour mail using mobile phones。

But it doesn't have to be an instant. It's like fast food that's always different from the cuisine that comes out of the alley after school。

And the latter, too, tends to resonate with more people。

News photography goes beyond fast-door optical parameters and beyond the scene. Following the publication of the “hosseille” award list in 2019, china's natural and environmental jury, shinon, said, with regard to photography of nature and the environment, that the most essential thing about filming such materials is to reflect the process of life, the species and the environment, the relationship with human beings, and the problems faced。

So, the image is not just a plane map, it is an instant, it is an infinite human possibility and the world。

It is the ultimate technique and essence of journalism, as is the new slogan of hossein — “to connect the world with important stories”。