the world press photo competition
received tens of thousands of entries
and these had to be whittled down to a
small and selected few hi I’m Rebecca
Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re speaking with jury member
aaron elder to learn more about the
selection process and we’ll be seeing
some of the year’s best photos so why
don’t you tell us about the jury of
World Press Photo who is choosing new
year’s best photos I believe there’s a
bit 14 members and they come from all
over the world and from different
disciplines within photography as a jury
member can you tell us more about the
selection process there’s five rounds so
the initial round I believe that they
saw 96,000 plus images the judging is
done anonymously so I don’t know how the
people sitting beside me or the people
that are on the other side of the room
have voted what are you looking for
we’re looking for images that provoke
our curiosity that asked us to become
emotionally involved did you like to
show us some of your choices in the
world press photo exhibit absolutely
we’re standing in front of the first
prize winner for this sports feature it
was taken by a Chinese the talk of her
name shall Kings it was a very fresh
approach that took the sports and put in
the context of the urban environment and
really you know how everyday individuals
you know might view the Olympics this is
a body of work by an American
photographer named Brenda and connealy
it’s a portrait of a family in Troy in
America we really felt that you know
there was a very strong focus to the
story that the photographer communicated
her point very well there was visual
consistency to the story the quality of
the imagery was unsurpassed by any of
the others this is another remarkable
image taken in Brazil or elbow Perez
with the associated press your first
impression of the image is a you know a
group of young people sort of hanging
out on the streets and then the more
that you look at the image the more time
that you spend you realize there’s a
dead body there the country in the scene
the situation may
to be very far away makes you stop and
ask questions about the world in which
they live and then hopefully will popped
some sort of discussion or examination
about the society in which we live
received tens of thousands of entries
and these had to be whittled down to a
small and selected few hi I’m Rebecca
Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re speaking with jury member
aaron elder to learn more about the
selection process and we’ll be seeing
some of the year’s best photos so why
don’t you tell us about the jury of
World Press Photo who is choosing new
year’s best photos I believe there’s a
bit 14 members and they come from all
over the world and from different
disciplines within photography as a jury
member can you tell us more about the
selection process there’s five rounds so
the initial round I believe that they
saw 96,000 plus images the judging is
done anonymously so I don’t know how the
people sitting beside me or the people
that are on the other side of the room
have voted what are you looking for
we’re looking for images that provoke
our curiosity that asked us to become
emotionally involved did you like to
show us some of your choices in the
world press photo exhibit absolutely
we’re standing in front of the first
prize winner for this sports feature it
was taken by a Chinese the talk of her
name shall Kings it was a very fresh
approach that took the sports and put in
the context of the urban environment and
really you know how everyday individuals
you know might view the Olympics this is
a body of work by an American
photographer named Brenda and connealy
it’s a portrait of a family in Troy in
America we really felt that you know
there was a very strong focus to the
story that the photographer communicated
her point very well there was visual
consistency to the story the quality of
the imagery was unsurpassed by any of
the others this is another remarkable
image taken in Brazil or elbow Perez
with the associated press your first
impression of the image is a you know a
group of young people sort of hanging
out on the streets and then the more
that you look at the image the more time
that you spend you realize there’s a
dead body there the country in the scene
the situation may
to be very far away makes you stop and
ask questions about the world in which
they live and then hopefully will popped
some sort of discussion or examination
about the society in which we live
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