World's best news photo is Time cover of disfigured Afghan woman
By Joe Pompeo - Feb 11, 2011
The iconic, controversial Time cover photo of an 18-year-old Afghan woman missing her nose has been named World Press Photo of the Year.
"It's an incredibly strong image," Ruth Eichhorn, one of the jurors of the annual contest said in the group's announcement of the award in recognition of the magazine's August 1, 2010 cover image. The annual Photo of the Year prize is sponsored by the nonprofit photojournalism organization World Press Photo. The photo "sends out an enormously powerful message to the world, about the 50 percent of the population that are women, so many of whom still live in miserable conditions, suffering violence," Eichhorn said. "It is strong because the woman looks so dignified, iconic."
"This could become one of those pictures -- and we have maybe just ten in our lifetime -- where if somebody says, 'you know, that picture of a girl...', you know exactly which one they're talking about," said another juror.
The image was captured by Jodi Bieber, a photographer from South Africa. The woman it depicts is Bibi Aisha, who was 18 when she left her husband, a Taliban fighter, over claims of domestic abuse. In an act of retribution, the Taliban allowed him to cut off her ears and nose. Aisha's husband abandoned her after the assault; American soldiers and aid workers later rescued her and transported her to the United States--where she now lives--for reconstructive surgery.
Time ignited a firestorm of debate over the suitability of the woman's photo when the magazine's editors featured it on the cover last August. Detractors called it "emotional blackmail" and "war porn," according to the New York Times, while others saw it as "a powerful appeal to conscience."
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You never see a photo of an abused, killed, raped, or tortured Muslim at the hands of the invading armies as a photo of the year? and you never will. It's amazing how the story changes each time you see these type of pictures. The first time this picture was published then it had a different story. The story then was that her father married her off to a much older man in the area, and he abused her regularly. One day she ran away to come to her father's home but was caught. Her punishment was that she was beaten and her husband cut off her nose and left her there. She was in so much pain that she fainted and when she awoke, it was night time, she found her clothes all wet with her blood. She stumbled her way to her father's house. He then took her to the hospital, which was run by the U.S. army. There was no Taliban or any other boogie man involved.
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