I have an ongoing love of pictures that are based around commodities and the infrastructure associated with this industry; oil, coal, wheat and mining all top of my list. Akintunde Akinleye's picture of oil workers, wearing matching orange boiler suits and yellow helmets, dwarfed by a rusting tank, the lines of the rust dicing the frame in a regular patten, the metal steps crashing diagonally across the warm toned picture is just wonderful. I like it too that all the workers seem to have taken a break from the work at hand to have their picture taken.
Construction workers are seen at an oil storage tank at the Dangote Oil Refinery under construction in Ibeiu Lekki district, on the outskirts of Lagos Nigeria, July 5, 2018. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye
A clever use of shape, line and pattern by Khaled Abdullah gives this image a ‘robotic machine’ feel as the students, heads down and working hard, try to achieve their best. It took me a while to work out why I got this impression, but I think it’s a combination of the reds, whites and blues all regularly spaced, the pens all tilting at the same angle, and the students all with their left hands under their desks.
Construction workers are seen at an oil storage tank at the Dangote Oil Refinery under construction in Ibeiu Lekki district, on the outskirts of Lagos Nigeria, July 5, 2018. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye
A clever use of shape, line and pattern by Khaled Abdullah gives this image a ‘robotic machine’ feel as the students, heads down and working hard, try to achieve their best. It took me a while to work out why I got this impression, but I think it’s a combination of the reds, whites and blues all regularly spaced, the pens all tilting at the same angle, and the students all with their left hands under their desks.
Students take their final High School exams in Sanaa, Yemen June 30, 2018. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
At first glance this picture is almost
abstract and it takes a while to figure it out as you struggle past the bright
reds and opaque blacks. Yasser Abu Al-Naia is cocooned in red and white and
smothered in harsh black shadows, and hands reach up from the bottom of the
picture to draw your eye to the 14-year-old’s face in Suhaib Salem’s powerful
picture. Once you see that young face it’s hard to look away. I didn’t for a
very long time.
Mourners carry the body of 14-year-old Palestinian
boy Yasser Abu Al-Naia who was killed by Israel forces during a protest at the
Israeli-Gaza border, during his funeral in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip
June 30, 2018. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
One of the best things about being a news
photographer is seeing events unfold in front of you, so you can take great
pictures for the world to see. To do that you need to be in places that many
cannot go to and that too is very attractive. Feisal Omar takes advantage of
this opportunity to stand on a red carpet in front of a full parade of police
on Independence Day to take a carefully composed picture balancing the red
stripe of the carpet with the white lines on the ground. Shame the officer was
just a few inches too far to the left of the carpet.
Somali police forces attend a parade during
celebrations to mark Somali’s 58th Independence Day in Mogadishu,
Somalia, July 1, 2018. REUTERS/Feisal
Omar
Beyond the immediate tragedy of Alaa
Al-Faqir’s picture of a woman made homeless through conflict, I am struck that
she is carrying a carpet that is almost twice as large as she is across a muddy
field. Obviously, a prized possession to be carried to safety when she was forced
to leave home, but strangely this image gives me a glimmer of hope. I sense
that even though she was forced to flee she expects to build her home again
with more than just essentials. But that said, it’s still a sad picture that
raises many questions.
A woman carries a carpet on her shoulders
near the Israeli-occupied Golan heights in Quneitra, Syria July 2, 2018. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir
The small demonstration of displaced
Syrians in Ammar Awad’s picture is dwarfed by the zig zagging fence, security
lines and slight shimmer of heat haze that surround them. The scene is compressed
as it has been shot on a very long lens, and your eye is drawn to the white
placards held by the protesters. Once there, you are trapped with them, your
eye held fast by posts of the barbed wire fencing pointing at them, making it
hard to look away. Read on here.
Internally displaced people in the Golan Heights
protest near the border between Israel and Syria in an appeal to the UN and the international community to stop Russia from carrying out an offensive,
as seen from the Israeli-occupied Golan heights, Israel July 4, 2018. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Mohamad Torokman produced
a powerful set of pictures when police clashed with Palestinians, throwing up
dust clouds around the struggling figures. This is a complex picture of
twisting bodies and swirling limbs as people try to pull a woman away from the
police. You have to fight equally hard visually to get to the focal point,
through the almost monochromatic framing until you reach the centre of the
picture. Hands and clothing stretched to tearing point, grimacing faces and the
bright complimentary colour of green and reds. You can see more here
Israeli policemen try to detain
Palestinians in the Bedouin village of Al-Khan al-Ahmar near Jericho in the
occupied West Bank July 4, 2018.
REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
Siphiwe Sibeko’s picture of demonstrators
blocking roads with burning tyres is wonderful. You are immediately grabbed by
the graphic shape of the circle of the black tyre surrounded by orange flames.
What I like too is the position of the feet, the protester in full purposeful
stride, and the picture brimming with energy.
A man blocks a road with a burning tyre
while protesting against electricity cuts in Klipspruit Soweto, Johannesburg,
South Africa July 4, 2018.
REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
A simple and affectionate picture of
dancing men by Zoubeir Souissi caught my eye this week. The mood of the picture
created by the slight tilt to the framing and the regular shape of the arches
in the background that seem to bounce from left to right over the heads of the
swaying, barefoot men. A final nice touch is the ‘halo’ around the head of the
man in black in the centre of the image.
A Tunisian Sufi group perform in Tunis,
Tunisia July 5, 2018. REUTERS/Zoubeir
Souissi
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