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and is that help for the victims of the conflict rushing to viens to protect its citizens that office it's been me said restively trying to regain control of its one republic. and as the headlines up next it's the spotlight. spotlight. on our team. today my guest on the program is jody babydol. modern technology works wonders anyone can fly everyone's a photographer every day millions of cameras stay up pictures every part of the world but only a few just even journalists are good enough to fly to the right place had their rights aren't and make the snap that really makes a difference. out of thousands is exactly what the world press photo
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is all about but what's it like to be called the best on the planet and what does it take to their spotlight will be their reigning best photo point jodi. picoult open have young girl disfigured by taliban extremists singletary is the shocking and inspiring shocking because one cannot. injuries calmly and inspiring because the guys unveil the girls. even after suffering such beastly brutality johnny bieber is not new to the w.p.a. competition she wanted eight times already. the jury describes the picture of one of those. as a triumph in full journalism. thank
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you very much for coming thanks for having me it's a pleasure for having me on the show well first of all i read that when somebody told you the e.u. won the world press photo award you report you say you're joking believe it is the . true well why couldn't you but you're not going to win well you know as you sit in your all previously that i've won eight will place awards before never in a million years would i ever have thought i would have won the overall prize and at the same time because of all the controversy there for surrounding the photograph i thought that the jury would be they would it would be too much of a risk to give it the first prize he uses you mention the controller see as far as i remember this picture this very picture appeared on the front page of time magazine and the headline read what happens if we leave afghanistan that's right
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yes so actually your picture was used in a propaganda campaign to sell the occupation we have. you see this is what's very interesting and south african coming from johannes food if you showed that cover to people in south africa they didn't even notice the headline because that's not our politics they so i share and the controversy came from very many different places and therefore everyone responded in very different ways depending on the politics depending on the country they came from depending on a whole lot of different variables so it didn't affect me in that way in actual fact it was a catalyst that it spread through the blogosphere world it was on t.v. it was everywhere and actually it was furthering and speaking about violence against women and more and more people were seeing this before we start with the
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murder story and the pinch yourself a couple of more words about the competition first of all what was your favorite picture among others among your competitors can you name some something else. because i quite like the. one photograph i think it's in bangladesh of at looks circus so a photograph from the cinema and it's a father and he son walking through the water and i like that but i also thought what was very interesting for me more than then appreciating the photography so much was it was interesting to see the chilean the chilean miners photographed and the ground by their sound there were the clarity so it speaks a lot about citizen journalism. well speaking about citizen jews speaking about awarding prizes well it's not the first time when i ask this question to myself when i see the winners a work in the works winning world press photo is the prize awarded to the pick
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chair to the photographic work word to journalism to the story behind the picture. i have been a journey member a few years back and really firstly it's about it's a photographic competition is the quality of the picture the composition books the dates the initial thing it's totally around the photograph and then of course the journalistic value after the fact is as important but really it's a photographic competition well let's take a closer look at this year's winners of the world press photo contest spotlights in the dimmy there were reporters from an exhibition in moscow. earthquakes and volcanoes heroes and villains the poles and the nerve of two thousand and ten is year round these pictures when put together the works which won the world press photo contest here the view was mind like
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a tsunami of human emotions the first to feel the force of the tsunami where the qantas jewelry they had to delve through a record pool of more than a hundred thousand food do you think should we choose two hundred images. each best reflect last year's events fifty six photographers from twenty three countries won one of the industry's most prestigious prizes in an age where everyone carries a camera and can get a lucky shot the professional still have an age like a body people who have dedicated their life to photo journalism and have a great experience but that's a completely different vision the quality of fictions they take is so much higher citizen journalism will never replace professional journalism but the tooth can co-exist perfectly well. the world press photo contest is rated to celebrate the coexistence a special mention went to nonprofessionals such as the chilean miners who
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photographed themselves while trapped for sixty nine days on the ground the view was of the moscow exhibition a welcome by portrait of giuliana sunshine which to result to be one of the landmark images for two thousand and ten but listen it doesn't matter what we think of julian assange it's just that we call it was did not exist before and it does now and it has given a new perspective to reality and one more source of getting information from the light throughout its fifty four year history the world press photo contest was mostly about revolutions violent uprisings and then they troll disasters but there are always images ones i can recite the porn next to the brutal pictures which make most of the daily news images of beauty and truth. look exceptionally fridge. so so you don't consider yourself to be a journalist or
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a campaign or whatever you're just a photographer for me i feel i'm a photographer. between the documentary world and the magazine world. i feel that you know my work isn't totally journalistic in a way after i also bring something of myself into the world to see when i work with photographers here in television our i always try to tell them you're not just picture takers your journal your reporters to do you do your journalistic work what i do with a pen and you do it with a camera so with you it's different well for me when i'm later and i share it i wasn't thinking how to satisfy a time magazine i was totally thinking of the creative process and working with to create that photograph but i wasn't thinking how am i going to tell when you took that picture you thought it will make a beautiful picture or you wanted to do to good to express yourself in your
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position your you actually do towards well i think you know i think this photograph has a number that says a number of different things and you know as a journalist that we knew in the process of creating i'm not thinking that but out saw that i sure was a very beautiful woman and i'm also at the stage where i am trying to break stereotypes in my work sack could have photographed her in a more vulnerable position i could have lost because she doesn't have is either i could have asked could she moves her hair away and i didn't do that and i wanted to show her in a position of power and not in a position of of being vulnerable this is who killed you're about asia how did you get to tell a soul bit more about about how you got into the story well i went to see time magazine in new york and they gave me an assignment aaron baker who's
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a writer for time magazine she was doing a story on about eighteen different woman so she actually found ok you got the names the gian and woman for afghan women shelter was looking off. so i share the time and that's how i met a really through aaron baker so you already knew the story they had i knew the stillness little bit about the story that it's horrible i mean i mean i mean what are the lives it's just unbelievable well actually comes from the southern provinces of afghanistan and. it's i think it was twelve or fourteen economy but the detail she was given away to cover a dispute that happened with the family and she was really abused quite badly within her in-laws home and so she decided to run away and she ran to her neighbors thinking she would seek refuge but they handed her into the police and in afghanistan basically if you are
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a woman then you run away from your husband you go to jail or that she received amnesty and her father came to collect her and took her back her oh ought to be raised has been due to that has to go has been and there was a court which happened to be in that area it was a taliban court. and they say that as punishment to teach other women in the village not to run away from their husbands to cut off her nose and ears and they held it down decisions it was the tribal accordant court decision art was the village moment decision. to cut off and was in and they lifted to die and then the military the u.s. military found it you could well looked after her and then took her to women for afghan women. who are still looking after her new york now and they're going to and
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then she she came to america when she was very good over there in was what will you told us about how you were taking this picture was it difficult to convince this year leads you to pose for for a magazine no no you. see i think everyone tries to may i share and the organize a xtian victim to this and i sure was actually waiting to gets a visa to go to america i wasn't the first photographer ever to photograph for all journalist to write about her and i think that i don't know for sure but i think women for afghan women and i should made the decision that the more publicity they got around her and what happened to her perhaps the media would help to get the values it was her own decision to do to make it public to me that to make a new face public and then to to to to make a statement title you can't force anyone into doing something this is in a shelter it's
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a very structured structured and protected place so our couldn't just walk in and say ah please you know can i photograph you it's definitely doesn't work that way with the session or was it just a couple of structure it's not more out of the took about three hours or so it was like a professional photograph of social yeah with a model. i would like to know everything no no no no this is a tripod very basic i use standard. and then reflect sort of like a like a studio session i'm not that's in the in the in the shelter in a very basic room with in the shelter. jodi bieber the winner of the world press photo contest spotlight would be back we'll continue this interview to take a short break so stay with us so good.
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welcome back to spotlight i am now going are going just to remind you that my guest on the show today is jody bieber the winner of world press photo contest judy we talked about our share of the girl you photographed in the afghanistan and here we see this award winning picture once again was there any any investigation other than this tribal court decision to trigger killer actually into the case so did something happen yeah the home i think pressure you know who never e one wrote about this on your batting role made a statement i mean the taliban even made a statement to say they don't advocate something like this and now the father in law has been arrested thing is a court case that's opened and they're looking for
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a husband the husband on the run as far as anybody the they become this is what they're saying do you think do you think that an afghan court will. will be able to to to to to make an unbiased decision. well it's a record for you to say because i mean you know i'm not an expert in judicial system how did the. nation change change are you sure. he talked to her you know her well this should become a new kind of a person after all that you have to you know she started as one major posttraumatic stress test she still suffers pertly she couldn't have an operation she's in your. she lives in queens women for afghan women look after her but she was meant to have the operation and the surgeon said they don't want to operate on her because she's still emotionally not ready for it but but we do have new pictures
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where wolf actually this picture way where it isn't that after the surgery this is a press they take notice her with when she goes out oh she she just where is it her are so so so so so this is so this is something you see you can hear you can see there so ensure asked to have an operation to jim to make it real i mean to to make it like a real yeah i see when she said so she just weirdness thing to do just a little better i think they're just waiting for her to circle logically recover to give the stronger before they can operate. it was a terrible decision to go to the united states or a great deal to stay in there were people just you had to take her out of the guy she was for when i'm eighty two she was really anxious to go to america but really the main reason why she wants a new nose in is i mean can you imagine what it must feel like. what awaits
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in the united states she's she's did learning the language in you know what was she going to do well at the moment she's making jewelry and all i know today because i'm in very close communication with the organization is that she makes jewelry she's got a very small. life right now she sees them in mom once a week. she knows how to use the internet she she serves afghan websites. and that's really what she does for now but i'm sure with english and when she gets emotionally stronger you know then things could open up for her. i know that you you mentioned you she does a so-called big jewelry year and she been sold a couple of things i know some bracelets and necklaces do you think she can make a living well i don't know only repaint she grown it but i think lack for i should you know i think there at the opportunity for her in afghanistan they wasn't she was either going to stay at the shelter or she there's no way she could ever go
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home. do you think that she may be able to return home to afghanistan not to the village not to. but i mean if she the painting what she does i mean perhaps she can go back to couple who and work there who move so do you think she will want to go back on their hard earned do there still fickle to say i mean i really don't know you know no one has access to i share i have very close access to the the organization that looks after her but i don't get on the phone and have a conversation with you know they're still trying to protect her from the media you so that the media are a chauffeur and the foundation no no i don't want internet no they say that but us i really try wherever i go to advocates and ask people to donate funds to the b.b.
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i should fund what is it for to go out with the doing well really you know it's very expensive living in new york and it's not that she's going to go shopping with their money in some movie you know she needs to be educated she needs caregivers and it's a very expensive process so that fund a hundred percent of the money put into their family will go to b.b. i shit and really it will go to her living in york. what i have done is i've created a limited edition of prints of b.b. i share that i'm hoping museums or that it's very limited will collect and all those fans will go to the p.b. i should know it's selling so we like the scientific you know. how common in general and if you know if you can give an answer to that one are such things that happened that happened. to our show i mean i mean is it is it
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considered like normal in the radical islamists like villages and communities are going to to do such things to to do what i like to think of this more as domestic violence more than looking at it from the perspective of islam i don't connect the two i don't connect them would you call them exceptional or things like that happen i would say things that they had happened but i don't know how often to their extremity but you do for example when i was in kabul i went to the self immolation hospital where because women are suffering so much within their homes they has been homes they're trying to burn themselves they pour petrol on themselves in their track and that's sad in that way so there's definitely violence against women. we started talking about this story you said you saw it all started when time magazine told you to go to kabul and take eighteen
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eighteen girls are starting to eighteen people said so so you did all of them only eighteen you met all of them we did eighty stories eighteen portraits one of the success stories were they happy happy ends happy stories among mentally a photograph the oprah winfrey of afghanistan a photograph to a woman who's a politician and wants to become the first sports minister to a documentary filmmaker. years so i photographed a variety of different women you know not all in a vulnerable situation so so there are a lot of happy women in against well they are women i think they come from more educated backgrounds they're you know are having a very different life now and mainly in kabul yeah but a bit in the villages it's still now where they were it's what i believe or like i was just fade to do whatever your parents or you has been close you to do well i
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would imagine it's similar to that but i'm not saying that every household sure is is violent as you mentioned like twelve or fourteen she was we when she was given the right to do to to to to the future has been so this is this is the age where when the girls are usually you know less and less to settle down it's just said look the criminal does and usually they go the very get where they were fifteen sixteen think it was a bit older year old g ok not listen to. your previous sort of pictures before you did they have again series was about the slums in south africa is that true it's about so waiter young man so where do you do that do you consider yourself like a social photographer a social campaign or it also was just in the simon that you know so we're turn really came about the project on the township i don't call it a slum because i don't see it as a slum. well this is what they call it and it. comes back to it was
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a personal project and it became a book and it's really about you know i think that sometimes the media lamps are two countries in certain ways and before the soccer world cup in twenty ten a lot of bad media was leaving south africa and really about crime it was around a it was around poverty and no. and was just showing the normality that also exists within our country you and so we're turning in a way was to break down the styria time to show just the normality that can happen in south africa as i'm sure sometimes russia is showing in the certain wasn't true so so so you know there is a social own goal to what you do yeah are you not just not just another photographer well with a low bar that's me this was really about upgrading to a theory of the times and it was to try and break down that fear that people have
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about the end. what are you working on now. i have been in i think six countries in one month yeah for mainly for world press but just before i was in moscow i was in london photographing a portrait series in an area in east london called shortage. and it deals a lot in fantasy for her eastenders is something her so wet oh not that i don't know really not today i know it's changed to five that's very trained and over and you are your exhibit ssion here in moscow i think i think it's doomed to be a success because because the world you're pretty popular in this country. really thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest on the show today was judy leverage there with other world
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press photo that's it for now from all of us if you want to have your sales spotlight or have someone in mind you think i should say next time just drop me a larger that i'll bring up and party t.v. are you from the t.v. show interactive we'll be back with your comments on what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on to our team and take you to get.
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