by Ninart Lui

Photojournalism at its epitome presents facts and facades of the world in the most elegant, arresting visual formats. It does not seek to answer, merely to raise questions on the state of global affairs and leads us to come to our own conclusions based on what we know or believe in. Like a veritable looking glass where the good, the bad and the ugly are all presented for scrutiny and amplified in stark detailed, the best work lays down the structure for question, discussion and – hopefully – change.

As Gary Knight, Chairman of the 2008 World Press Awards jury puts it: “The judges sought to reward creative, effective journalism and were excited by images that didn’t offer simplistic solutions, but which did something more difficult – stimulated viewers’ curiousity and raised questions in people’s minds. This is as much about journalism as it is about photography, and in looking through this book the reader accepts a responsibility handed on by the photographers and the jury to learn…Much of the work you will see in these pages…represents the wrld in a way that many of us are unaccustomed to seeing it; in a way that throws down a challenge to the public to re-engage with the media. It is also a challenge to those of us in the media who may find these essays uncomfortably unorthodox. The future has arrived.”

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NINART LUI
Editor
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