it's technology innovations billie's developments from around russia we've gone to the future covered. nine thirty am in moscow these are your r.t. headlines student protests against jewish knights in canada enter their hundred day with demonstrations turning violent leading to dozens of injuries and hundreds of arrests this despite a recently introduced emergency law aimed at curbing protests which many demonstrators are vowing to ignore. the largest summit in nato history wrapping up in chicago with the block leaders reaffirming their plan to end the war in afghanistan by two thousand and fourteen but keeping a presence in the country beyond that the gathering marred by thousands protesting against nato wars with some rallies being met by heavy handed police response.

german enthusiasm for a europe wide austerity comes under fire from british opposition politicians who warn it could spell disaster for the global economy. half hour's time till the next news block till then spotlight is up next talking to the winner of the two thousand and twelve world press photo competition dutch photographer rob horne struck stay with us. oh. hello again to walk them through the spotlight lead into the show on our. album love and today my guest in the studio is it all but hard to describe. in

a world where having flown as a both on camera it's hard to imagine people taking pictures but among millions of shocks me every day around the globe just a few are reeling with some. tests are annually displayed at the world's first from the largest and most prestigious photo club the winner of the two thousand and twelve competition the target for rob comstock is my guest on the show today he portrayed the future olympic captain saatchi which brought them the first prize in the arts and entertainment class. in an age where everyone carries a camera and can get a lucky shot of the professional still have an age the proof of that is the world press photo contest which has for fifty five years celebrated the best in professional journalism the two thousand and eleven pictures are currently mosco a spawn of

a global two are more than one hundred thousand pictures were submitted for the world press photo contest sifting through such a huge number of images must have been an arduous task for the jury they eventually narrowed it down to the two hundred best shots capturing the major events and spirit of two thousand and eleven. the overall winner is this image which has been described as the icon of the arab spring a yemeni woman cradles her son who is suffering from the effects of tear gas after participating in the street demonstration in order to the growing importance of citizen journalism a special award was given to a nonprofessional shot of captured more american duffy more than just an image it's a historical document i think half half of all the news. categories in which pictures were awarded was were awarded to two pictures that were from the arab spring so it better a plate of course

a huge role in the in the minds of the jury with a war that the picture. the world press photo is not all about violent or phrasings or natural disasters though one of the winners rob poor unstrung from the netherlands impressed the jury with his long term project to capture the changes taking place in sochi the host city for the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics is a very experienced this by young very experienced on this but it is a member in three management. international but it is the way this is new york this year the work of rapport and as well as other winners of the world press photo contest will be displayed in the record breaking one hundred five galleries around the world. world walked into the show thank you very much for being with us thank you well we're in the how do you choose russia as the main place for your

professional integrity well i'm working together with a writer and in two thousand and nine we we decided to start the search for a guest which is a five year long term documentary project about the run up to the olympic winter games and so we decided because we knew of course since putting the noun to the number of winter games we knew that a number of winter games would take place over there near in the caucus is in sochi and we thought it might be very interesting to make a really good few on the whole region around sochi and sochi itself of course so that's why we started here you said you were talking with a writer does that mean you work for a magazine or a newspaper. in a way we work for a magazine if the magazine called for a male around but we make many many so in our free time we make many many more stories we work together and we call ourselves independent journalists because we are mostly supported by donators all over the world who. care about

independent journalism independent. mentoring makers so we choose our own stories we bring them ourselves and we are completely independent in what we do over there will be your book how can you be completely independent if you have to move every living i mean you have to you have to pay for your bills it inside which is not a very cheap place to live in such is unfortunately not very good even though that you know that it's very difficult i mean that's that's our biggest problem of the fortunate be we raise around twenty five thousand euro a year by donations so that's a start of our project that covers more or less the costs but you're right we also make need to make a living for example besides photography photography i do workshops those kind of things now try to earn some money to survive but it's not we always say like i am the writer we always say if you want to become rich or want to have a good financial live don't become

a documentary maker because that would have the goodwill this is what would you say donations the issues they come from they come from when. they all come from home or from such you know unfortunately we didn't have one donated from sochi and which is silly because saatchi it's i think it spends millions on. a p.r. an advertising the future of the capital that's true but now you have of course the interesting point we are independent so we we don't want to advertise or we don't want to market sochi we want to make realistic stories about sochi and also about the neighboring region so if an advertising company from sochi comes to us and says like hey we saw your project and we want to support you and give you a lot of money but make it a little bit positive then we will definitely say no we want to work independently so our donated are mostly people who just care about independent journalism and many of them come from holland because we live in holland so most of the people we

know are living in holland. will you said you want to share. a realistic picture of the city but this book and these pictures that. brought you think man and brought you to victory. in the world press photo are like endlessly dozens of pictures of singers in restaurants which will a picture like that a person singing on stage in reston do you think this is really a realistic picture of what science he is today how does he know i'm going to start you more than once you've been there here this is not the city this is a couple of hours a week where people go to relax and this is another they see but the other seven days people see different pictures do they i don't i don't know which pictures you mean met but what we try to do we make different stories so this is like one story in a bigger project that's important to realize that this is only one story in the bigger program one of the rest. we make stories for example about

a small village on the other side of the mountains which is a newspaper exhibition we make stories in the north so we made a really big book which explains the situation right now in a car see how it is of course as you know neighboring the stadiums five kilometers from here from there there's a border. and what we wanted to do is to be picked sochi tourists live so that's important to realize if you see this series and we try to find a metaphor. which if you see this like if you see this series did you get the same kind of feeling we always have in sochi if we go to sochi we see the bling bling it's very noisy it's a lot of it's a very eclectic city with a lot of. cultural influences from. turkey from asia from from greece from italy you see all those influences back in these restaurants and that fascinated us we want to show what kind of city sochi is for tourists so we

made this to show what. you are trying to show people if you're trying to make a true picture of the future and limpid capital you're going to show people the other side of the page then we try to we always say we show an alternative picture so we don't we don't like make a picture to make the city really beautiful but we give an alternative picture that's not necessarily bad of those or whatever it's just an alternative picture we make our stories other people make their stories and in the end like if you work at different stories and a different view on things that's our goal because the reason i'm asking is that such is going to become an olympic capped this is the enormous construction work of the glamour the the mean the neon lamps and so one everything will be polished and then this is the picture people will see on television and people will see when they come to search it out of the windows only of the olympic glasses when people

see books like that and when they have guys like e independence going there living there for years and they want to see something else they want to learn more they want to get a feeling of not of the ellen pick side of the real city i turn to how this is going to see who will win something more definitely we are quite convinced that these olympic games we see the building up process of course we are going there for years to three times so we see the stadiums and it's so extremely impressive how fast they are building the stadiums how beautiful they will be we are quite sure that these olympic games will be extremely successful and it will be beautiful organized games and all the people working there will speak english and it will be beautiful this train going straight into the mountains but we think it's important that people also get to know. turn it if picture as i said we want to show different stories for example what i told you about a village on the other side of the mountains is a village without electricity and gas that's happening hundred fifty kilometers from the city where they pump in right now forty billion dollars so we don't want

to say this is good or this is bad but we just want to raise questions why is this happen as a matter of fact i. guess when i think that these people living in that village without gas no interest the they may be more happy with their life than the people living inside she next to a construction site that will be world famous well. yeah i think i have to agree with you because we stayed in this village for a week to two to experience the real fillets life and we really had a wonderful time of that these people are completely lovely people they live a simple life but in a way they're also even they can say we are even proud on having the olympic games to live out here i mean eyes if we have electricity in the futures of course so that that's what they also i mean you will live without jules then and i mean i am ok you're you maybe you have them in the future but i don't know if you maybe not.

now and you don't reside in russia are you coming there is that right yeah we stay we try to stay there but that depends on our donations on our financial system we always want to do more but we don't have the money for it but not right now a days we stay there for two times a month at least a year or so two months a year but we try to do it more here we have many stories to make before the olympic games so we have so much work to do right now we're working in the north caucasus forages they have two years to go well this is a rough part of the start of the world press photo conference spotlight will be back shortly we'll continue this interview in less than a minute they'll stay with us. wealthy british scientists like. to write for. the.

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welcome back to spotlight i'm al gore knob and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is that alb hottest the winner of the world press photo contest. well as we already. said in the first part of the show the the pictures that got the award were the pew shoes of restaurant singers in sochi why did you choose. well now you know why you can explain what it stands for but when you came what do you choose did to fill those restaurants saying this was this something different something that people never saw in the was something that that amaze you when you came to the job look at that what were. some other reason like you spend lots of time in restaurants well of course we have to spend a lot. of time in a restaurant because usually our working day is that you end up that you end the day you need to eat something and then we also discuss what happened during the day and what we are going to do the next day that's our job that's how we work but in

such that was the moment actually early to does the eleven that we decided to make this series is that we were sitting again in a restaurant and it was nine we saw someone coming in with a laptop and pulling the laptop over there and starting the music and we were looking to hear that and we realize ok we cannot talk anymore in this restaurant this week and i realize. so we were a little bit fed up and that was the moment that i said arnold arnold we experience this now so many times shall we make a series out of it because this is something typical indeed it's typical russian we don't know this in the netherlands in our restaurants it's always quiet so that's a different this is not even piano very seldom maybe in france or in those management in holland it's really for russians i think that's restaurants are extremely boring but this is like a fairy fit in lively yeah well because this is where we discussed it already been there when we met before the show that this is a very soviet tradition in the soviet union people didn't go to restaurants to eat

and people went to party and this isn't the case exactly in moscow but all around russia this is what you did that you really realize that yes i've been traveling many times to russia to siberia to the world's to many places around moscow and indeed in moscow it doesn't exist anymore but it still exists on specifically all of russia but specifically in sochi so we think it's quite a good metaphor to depict sochi we show several elements actually it's about the singers which is something which people in holland do not really know about but besides that i was quite fascinated by the interiors of these restaurants and that's also why you always see the scene of small in my pictures you see like a big big picture and then you see the singer over there fascinating the well if you start analyze. in these interiors you see extra. all kind of cultural elements back in the new interiors people try to read if a down interior like the interiors are of course not allowed anymore they don't

show the more modern need of russia so everybody has a new modern interior but what do you see in the z. derrius that's like a turkish interior reason to. italy in interior in spain it is an asian interior and i was looking at a certain point for russian interior but i couldn't really find it it's a kind of eclectic mix of all those different styles. in these restaurants so did well that's what fascinates me about all these restaurants those strange eclectic mix between different girls yes which i'll drop in iraq do you think it will fascinate the guests who come to sochi for the olympics will they love it or you think or will this look sort of i mean referencing those two singers and the restaurants i mean i mean i mean would people be fascinated to to to go out and i think actually that it will be if every good broadly should they keep it that i can see it's now deadly and i didn't like about this record many tourists and people will love it i mean even we became fans of this music lucia and so no i knew he was

allowed and so me i mean it is they did it to our lives my brains when i said a little bit of all artistic and um and then isabelle you can survive in this kind of music now then it really becomes better and we have we had many really good evenings in restaurants and we also made a top ten of the most favorite songs over there so our number one is for example big it is billy goss and i'm number two it started because i love. we know many songs and so he so you know you really know the russian part we are kind of the specialist in the national authority. well actually you talk about the eclectic and the rest of the action saatchi was not only the place the place to for a holiday is in the soviet union still is in russia it has always been the the capital of the russian kitsch do you think it still is there. difficult to say for me difficult to say it's definitely for me not the modern city

which will be shown during the olympic winter games it's not it doesn't have this much modernity in in itself it's more like an f. or it's tourist city like benidorm or in europe those kind of places it's hard core industry that's actually what it is many tourists come in to drink and that's an industry that's what saudi sochi is for me many and i really regret this build for example so many high quite ugly hotel buildings in between those beautiful old architecture which they had before so now i'm not so so i like this tourist industry because it's fascinating for me as a photographer but it's not a modern city definitely know this is so you like the kids or you like the style the music style i like both. you can drop me

a certain hour of perfect holiday definitely well we started talking about prices price isn't such we are really not affordable for most of the russians today and how they affordable for foreigners you know even the you know what i mean russia is really really expensive right now for europeans for people from holland moscow is extremely expensive but you know chooses versus what's going on here you get into any of it and i'm surprised by that because if you go a little bit further to turkey you get i guess. better surface and you pay less and turkey in turkey for example you have the. five kilometers from there is only five kilometers across is really. beautiful resort of course they have to build a really good industry again but it's extremely cheap there definitely but for us europeans it's difficult to go to a class you know because we need a multi entry. because you have to leave russia and come there to mention. and they do stamp your passport when you cross the border they don't actually anymore they

only take your migration card and they get you back out of out so they don't stay but if you don't have amounts of years ago they were let you go out you know there's not a lot you can get away with just like taking a bus even they're checking all the buses and maybe there's a kind of i don't know actually if they do they should be full of it because it's so beautiful and interesting for foreigners i mean there and i've crossed that border in the morning where i think what thousands of people are going to work and back all those buses and traffic and they're just moving across the border like a hundred like five fifth avenue near during the rush hour so how can they check all the people in the buses yeah i think if you give you take a bus you can just go there but i wouldn't advise foreigners to take go you know yeah yeah this is like you know when i visit the niagara falls from the canadian side and there's a can i walk to america this year you probably get away with that all really but if you if they value and find out you're russian you'll be in trouble or you will be deported and you will never be allowed in russia again of course that's for me as

a journalist very you know i don't want to get into those situations these interesting things that people from europe realize i remember a friend of mine once came to moscow in the in the seventy's and he was amazed when he saw you know this big barrel on two wheels in the center of moscow and people killing and they were actually drinking beer and there was a lady selling beer from a great but barrel into which is the house and no it was they had these barrels of course and they also had them with really and the guy was from germany and he said this isn't i'll show this picture to my friends they will not believe me we don't even have it and you. know i never saw it in germany i also didn't see it in such anymore so you were amazed with the rest of things what else what else did amaze you what else did for you as a photographer sees so what seemed were. if making like every year is

only half well our progress is about the contrast in the whole region so we also made a really big deal for example about the past year or two to explain how the situation is over there and we're also working in north korea is this we now for example finished serious about the most popular sport of the north korea because this which is which is wrestling definitely so we did a series about. amateur restless and because we expect many wrestlers from the cards to win gold medals at the london olympics i think you will never leave me wrong if russian will have willed middles they will definitely have them have them in wrestling you know well you know you're going anywhere is a matter of the end zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero worth well a couple of legs. i don't see the medals in swimming no no no i don't see any medals in basketball for longer than the the least maybe weightlifting in those little only wrongly when we've lived in wrestling world this is maybe

shooting so that's maybe that's what we are making we making stories all over the region on different topics and of course we are very interested in these bigger contrast i mean how people live. you have those kind of difficulties there is right now people are talking about the security problems around the olympic winter games or spend a lot of money in security there is such an obsessional ready there here. as well you mentioned you mentioned the difficulties well getting out of the getting a multi reasons i want to how difficult is it generally for you because you're not even a credit press here are these stablish would how difficult is it for a for an independent guy like you to work in russia it's rather difficult i would say we need a press fisa from and to have a press release of course we can we can get a press release on because we work for a weekly magazine and in their lands and afterwards we need special equity to. nation and to go to sochi to not a big problem you can do it on the two reasons are on a on

a business which i would have to go to work in the north caucuses then it's really at five zero to have a press feast and the right papers and i can detention in food tell them if you come on and so it's quite difficult to work in the north because but again i mean it's manageable it's possible but i can say that for example now i'm here in the business because for unknown reasons i didn't get the prestige or your business reason right now i'm on a business when you can so it's there's always things going on and i really would advise all the governments in the world stop issuing the fees or just say it's free you're welcome come to our country with you with visas is just the same as with the locks you know the locks are against good guys bad guys know what we now have to deal with your idea of visas but i have to say i mean my country the netherlands and most of the european countries are also very difficult in issuing fisa to organise so yeah against those going to you thank you very much for being with us

and just a reminder that my guest today was rob thomas crown winner of the world press conference and that's it for now from on top like we'll do that until then stay on r.t. and take. the

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