he regards he live from the headlines outnumbered and beleaguered police struggle to restore order in major british cities knocked in the spiral of violence and looting over five hundred people have been arrested after riots the british prime minister called pure criminality. europe's top bankers says the continent is going through the worst financial crisis since world war two the turmoil has already prompted some nations to halt plans to join the once much desired euro currency

club. and european stocks tumble following the biggest slump in the u.s. for years the plunge was caused by fears that downgrade of america's credit rating could worsen the slowdown of the world's biggest economy. but next spot my talks to the winner of the twenty town and world press photo competition today's cast. yanno welcome to spotlight. on our t.v. . mentioned a my guest on the program is jody babydol. modern technology works wonders anyone can fly every was the photographer every day millions of cameras stay in billions of pictures every part of the world but only

a few even journalists are good enough to fly to the right place at the right side and make the snatch that really makes it just became such shops out of thousands is exactly what the world press photo competition is all about but what's it like to be called the best on the planet and what does it take to their spotlight we need the reigning best photo queen. cotto of an afghan girl dressed eager by taliban extremists a symbol to history shocking and inspiring shocking because one cannot get such atrocious injuries calmly inspiring because the guys on bail the girls. even after suffering such beastly retarded. bieber is not new to the w.p.a. competition she wanted eight times already. the jury describes the teacher as one of those you. immediately recognized as

a triumph for joining liz. thank you very much for coming thanks for having me a pleasure for me to share well first of all i read that when somebody told you the e.u. won the world press photo would you say you're joking around believe it is. true why couldn't you look you you were looking to him well you know as you see it in your all previously that i had one 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 that was surrounding the photograph i thought that the jury would be there which it would be too much of a risk to give it the first prize you since you mention good control receives far as i remember this picture of this very picture appeared on the front page of time

magazine and the headline read what happens if we leave afghanistan that right there so actually your picture was used in a propaganda campaign to sell the the occupation we have. you see this is what's very interesting and south african coming from johannes food if you showed that cavett to people in south africa they didn't even notice the headline because that's not our politics they saw 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 a in actual fact it was a catalyst and 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 there of the historian the pictures of a couple more words about the confrontation first of all what was your favorite picture among others among your competitors can you name some something else. and i quite liked that. one photograph i think it's in bangladesh of at x.x. so a photograph from the cinema and it's a far then he sun walking through the water and i like that at all certain what was very interesting for me more then then appreciating the photography so much was it was interesting to see the chilean the chilean miners photographed and the ground. there were corroded so it speaks a lot about citizen journalism and. we're 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 picture to the photographic work word to journalism through the story behind the picture. i have been a jury member a few years back and really firstly it's a it's a photographic competition is the quality of the picture the composition but 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 d. me there were reports from an exhibition in moscow. us weeks unfold tweeners hugh

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 for the contest here the view was mind like a tsunami of human emotions the first to feel the force of the tsunami were the condors jury they had to deal through a record pool of more than a hundred thousand food t.v. chewie choose two hundred images. each best truth like last season vance 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 shake up of eight people who have dedicated their life to photo journalism and have a great experience but that's a completely different vision the quality of features they take is so much higher citizen journalism will never replace professional journalism but the two can quite

exist perfectly well. the world press photo contest is ready to celebrate the coexistence a special mention went to nonprofessionals such as the chilean miners photographed themselves while trapped for sixty nine days on the ground the view was of the moscow what's a vision welcomed by portrait of julian our son choose which to result to be one of the memorable images for two thousand and ten. but listen it doesn't matter what we think of julian assange it's just that we can exist not exist before and it does now and it has given a new perspective to reality and one more source of getting information in a way throughout its fifty four year history the world press photo contest was mostly about revolutions violent uprisings and clinical disasters but there are always images ones i can restore poor next to the brutal pictures which make most of the daily news images of beauty and truth of nature look exceptionally fridge

and. so so you don't consider yourself to be a journalist or campaign or whatever you tell you just a photographer for me i feel i'm a photographer. and move 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 so when i would with photographers here in television i always try to tell them you're not just picture takers your journal your reporters to you do your journalistic work i do the pen and you do it with the camera so with you it's different so for me when i later. i wasn't thinking how to satisfy time magazine i was totally thinking of the creative

process and working with i should. to create their photograph but i wasn't thinking how am i going to tell it when you took that picture you thought it would make a beautiful picture or you wanted to to try to get to express yourself and your position your you attitude towards the left think you know i think this photograph has a number it 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 the stage where i am trying to break stereotypes in our work sack could have photographed her in a more vulnerable position i could have lost because she doesn't have ears 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 how did you get

to tell a soul bit more about about how you got into this well our way to see time magazine in new york and they gave me an assignment aaron baker who's the writer for time magazine she was doing a story on about eighteen different women so she actually found ok you got the names and women for afghan women shelter was looking after i share the time and that's how our mater really through aaron bay so you already knew the story that i knew the stillness little bit about the story that it's horrible i mean i mean i mean without removes it's just unbelievable well actually comes from the southern provinces of afghanistan and. it's i think it was twelve or fourteen narconon member of the detail she was given away to cover a dispute that happened with the fair and she was really abuse 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 in but they handed her into the police and in afghanistan basically if you are a woman and you run away from your husband you go to jail which she received amnesty and her father came to collect turn to bet her oh to be raised has been the room 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 their own decisions it was this liable accordant who disagree art was the village moment decision. to cut off innocent and they lifted to die and then the military the u.s.

military found the. world looked after her and intricately women for afghan women. who are still looking after her in new york now. and they're going to and then she she came to america when she was reading over that was what will you told us about how you were taking this picture was it difficult to convince this year leaves it to pose for for a magazine no no you see i think everyone tries to may i share and the organization a victim to this and i she was actually waiting to get a visa to go to america i wasn't the first photographer if a to photograph a journalist to write about her and i think there are don't know for sure but i think women for afghan women and i sure made the decision that the more publicity they got around her and what happened to her perhaps the media would help to get

the same it was only a solution to to to. make it public to me and then try to make them face public and tense and to make a statement cites and you can force anyone into doing something this is in a shell said very structured structured and protected place so i couldn't just walk in and say are these are not can i photograph you it's definitely doesn't work that way for the session or was it just a couple of centuries it's not nora i took about three hours or so it was like a professional photograph of social reality with a model. i would like to know everything you know now i know this is a tripod very basic i use standard planes and then a reflector so that i think i like the studio session i'm not that's in the in the in the shelter in a very basic room with in the shelter and. jodi bieber the winner of the world press conference spotlight would be back we'll continue this interview so we take

a short break so stay with us ok. thank. you. chad.

welcome back to spotlight i'm al gore now i'm just a reminder that my guest on the show today is jodi bieber the world press photo cartoonist julie we talk about i share the girl you photographs of down the stone he'll receive this award winning picture once again was any any investigation other than this tribal court decision to trigger killer actually into the case so yes something happened you know home i think pressure you know everyone wrote about this on knew about and 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 i think is a court case that's open and they're looking for a husband with. the husband on the ground as far as anybody the because this is what they're saying. do you think do you think the court will. will

be able to to to to to make an unbiased decision. we were recalled from going to say because i mean you know i'm not an expert in educational systems how did the. asian change change are you sure you you talked to her you know her well the child become a new kind of person after all the out that you have to. run major posttraumatic stress the strain she still suffers currently she can 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 we do have new pictures there wolf actually this picture where where is it after the surgery this is a press they took no her with. i'm sure she's just where is

her so so so so so this is also this is something you see you can hear you can see there so it has she has to have an operation to to make it really intrigued to make a break really now i see so she just witness thing who did you just do it very well i think they're just waiting for her to sack a logically recover to give the stronger before they can operate. but it wasn't term decision to go to the united states to agree to stay and there were people just you had to take her out of the play she was over when i'm eating 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 in the united states she she she's just learning the language and 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 but we're going as ation is that she makes jewelry she's got a very small. right now she sees in him and once a week. she knows how to use the internet she she serves afghan sites 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 should know the so-called b. jewelry year and she was sold a couple of things i know some bracelets and necklaces do you think she can make a living but i don't know if she can go but i think lack for i should you know i think they're up the chain a t. for her in afghanistan they wasn't she was are they going to stay in a shelter or should there's no way she could ever go home. do you think that she may be able to return home just not to have really

gotten. back to me i mean if she were to paling what she does i mean perhaps she can go back to couple will and will play with so do you think she will want to go back on their do their 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 organization that looks after her but i don't get on the phone and have a conversation with her you know they're still trying to protect them from the media as you said at the mediation front the phone dish no no i don't want internet no they sit it out but us really try wherever i go she advocates and ask people to donate funds to the baby ayesha that. would be 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 and you know she needs to be educated she needs caregivers and it's a very expensive process so that fund the hundred percent of the money put into that fund 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.d. i share that i'm hosting museums or that it's very limited will collect and all those fans will go to the. roots. but for scientific you know. how come and in general if you know if you can give an answer to that one are such things that happened that happened. i mean i mean is it is it considered like normal in the radical islamists villages and communities are going to do such things to what i like to think of this more. domestic violence more than

looking at it from a perspective of islam i don't connect that i don't connect that would you call to me exceptional things like that happen i would say things that there 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 he has been soames they try and burn themselves they pour petrol on themselves in their track and it's sad in that way so this definitely violence against women and 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 eighteen years to eighteen where you can search so so you did all of them only eighteen you met only we did eighteen stories eighteen portraits one of the

success stories were they happy happy ends happy stories and i'm certainly half in a graph that oprah winfrey of afghanistan a photograph a woman who's a politician and wants to become the first sports minister to a documentary filmmaker. here's you sir are photographs a variety of different one you know not all in a vulnerable situation so so there are a lot of happy women and well they are women i think they come from more educated backgrounds they're you know are having a very different life now i mainly in couple years ago yeah a little bit in the villages it's still now with the you know it's largely all locations fades we do whatever your parents or you has going to knows you to do wow or do you imagine it's similar to that but i'm not saying that every household sure israelis fire leaves you mentioned like twelve or fourteen she was we when she was

giving i to do to kill the future has been so this is this is the age where when the girls are usually you know that's nice to settle because it's just criminal the civilians and usually they go to be very good where the fifteen sixteen think it's a bit older you will be ok not listen to your previous sort of pictures before you do they have against series was about the slums in south africa is not true it's about so waiter and so where do you do that how do you consider yourself a local social photographer a social can pin or it also was just in the same in that you know so return 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 i'd say it's contrary that it was a personal project and it became a book and it's really about you know i think that sometimes the media lumps

certain countries in certain ways and before the soccer world cup in twenty tame a lot of bad media was leaving south africa and it was really about crime it was around eight it was around poverty and now. and was just showing the normality that will say exists within our country and so we're in a way was to break down the stereotype to show just the normality that can happen in south africa as i'm sure sometimes russia is showing in the suits and wasn't sure so so so there is a social own goal to what you do we are being you know just but just another photographer with with a low ball that's legal it was really about upgrading to a theory of the times and it was to try and break down their fear that people have about the end. well you working on now. i have been in i think six countries

in one month yeah for mainly for world prints but just before i was in moscow i was in london photographing a portrait series in an area in east london called shorty. and it tells a lot in fantasy. this is something like the wetter not that. they're really not you know it's strange to find it's very trendy all over and you are your exhibit ssion here in moscow i think i think it's doomed to be a success because because because we're all pretty popular in this country. really thank you thank you very much for being with us and just that just a reminder that my guest on the show today was getting leaders there with others well placed post that's it for now from all of us if you want to have yourself spotlight we have someone in mind to you think question to the next time you just

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