World Press Photo jury thinks a terrified child and wounded invader are totally the same thing — because “both sides,” right?

by UNITED24Media

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  1. World Press Photo has announced 42 regional winners of its annual documentary photography competition. As part of its selection, the jury paired two works capturing what it called different dimensions of the Russian-Ukrainian war—a photo of a 6-year-old Ukrainian girl traumatized by Russian aggression and a photo of a wounded Russian soldier. Such a comparison sparked criticism for being inappropriate.

    Adding fuel to the debate, one of this year’s winners is Mikhail Tereshchenko, a war photographer for the Russian state news agency TASS. Tereshchenko won in the “Stories” category for his coverage of anti-Russian protests in Georgia. In 2022, he reported on Russia’s capture of Mariupol, calling it a “liberation.”

  2. The ‘art world’ has shown itself to be utterly unable to handle nuance since this war began. They seem to live in their own vacuous bubble and haven’t likely ever experienced anything like that little girl in the photo. There seems to be a problem in the art community as seen in other events such as film festivals that is probably a reflection of an absence of morality in society in general.

  3. This the equivalent of showing both the death camp survivors and hospitalised SS soldiers as victims.

  5. False moral equivalence is putting it lightly.

    It’s like putting a serial rape victim in one pane and a rapist in the other and saying ‘feel sorry for both’.

    Fuck him, he made a choice to go.

  8. “My grandfather suffered horribly in a concentration camp; he did his back in, carrying those heavy Zyklon B canisters from the lorrys to the showers. iT’s aLl tHe sAmE sUfFeRiNg !”

  9. The difference here is one of these twos hospital room could be bombed and I’d cry.

    If the other’s hospital room was bombed I’d cheer.

  10. It is why the world cannot believe the fake news. It is not just this war it is everything. There is media cabal that pushes its own narrative.

  12. It’s a senseless death, I suppose it requires a skill of meta thinking to be able to get it

  13. 🖕 FUCK YOU ART WORLD. To say these 2 photos invoke similar emotions is actually disgusting. That little girl was victimized in her home, her city, her country. Occupier boy came to Ukraine to kill Ukrainians.. to kill that little girl they are likening him to. It’s absolutely fucking disgusting. I don’t pity murderers. That’s all I see in that wounded occupier photo, a murderer.

    Come to Ukraine. Stay in Ukraine.

    Like Babushka said: At least put these seeds in your pockets so when you lie down to die on Ukrainian soil you do some good.

  14. People in these comments do not understand the poverty to military pipeline in Russia

  16. Not blurred for me. Ones innocent only wanting to live life. The other is an evil degenerate who will kill for money. Fk him a d everyone that comes from russia to invade Ukraine.

  17. Disgusting.

    I interpret it differently though: Ukrainian victims are alone, while Ukrainians even help injured Russian invaders.

  18. Stop the first picture from repeating by doing more of the second

  20. invader in this case is just another word for murder+rapist+terrorist that doing crime on another country.

    Fk those who try to equal that to a innocent terrified child, the world has too many psychopathy that don’t deserve to live.

  22. I can see it working if the ru invader is being treated by Ukrainians.. that is to say despite the above image being common, they still treat the enemy as a human – a moral upper hand if you will.

    Still not worth the comparison though.

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