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发表于 2011-12-19 19:23:50
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VOX POPULI: Capturing a moment in time
With the click of a camera, the image captured in a fraction of a second can be preserved for ages. Be it the face of a person or a scene, the image will remain--even though the picture itself will recede into the past with every passing second.
The annual News Photo Exhibition kicked off Dec. 16 at the Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district. It will run through Dec. 25. Admission is free.
Nearly half of the exhibits concern the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11. Time seems to stand still before these images of horror and sorrow that are still so raw in people's minds.
The Yomiuri Shimbun won the Tokyo Press Photographers Association Award, the top prize, for its series of photos titled "To Mama." One of them shows the sleeping face of a girl who lost her parents and younger sister in the March tsunami. The girl, aged 4, had recently learned to write, and was writing a letter to her deceased mother when she fell asleep, cradling her head on an open notebook on the table.
Norikazu Tateishi, the 39-year-old Yomiuri reporter who took these pictures, had formed close ties with the child. He had often visited her home and played with her.
A photo titled "The Diet When the Quake Struck" is just as noteworthy. Stenographers are huddled under a round table, behind which Naoto Kan, prime minister at the time, is gripping the armrests of his chair and staring into space. All Cabinet ministers have their mouths half open.
Another picture shows teenagers shouting and cheering. The scene is a middle school in Fukushima Prefecture, where fears of radiation still linger, and members of the track and field team have to practice hurdles in a school corridor. There is a big, happy grin on every face.
The strength to overcome post-disaster hurdles is born from young people's love of their hometown, not from the government's premature proclamation that the nuclear crisis has been brought under control.
There are also photos of messages hand-written by survivors of the March disaster. One can only nod deeply in agreement with this youngster's resolve: "Because my life is a gift, I will try to live really well and not lose it easily." Sometimes, pictures can foretell the future.
--The Asahi Shimbun, Dec. 18 |
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