Yesterday he gave to announce the winners of the prestigious World Press Photo , the highest international award in terms of photojournalism is concerned, the highest recognition for Spanish Samuel Aranda , whose photograph of a woman wearing a niqab black, clothes to wounded in the riots in Yemen. The Arab Spring has been, for obvious reasons, the main protagonist of this year's contest, the number 55, who has attended more than 100,000 images submitted by 5,247 photographers from 124 countries.
Photography, like any other art form, is large, in part, that awakens in the viewer, the way he interprets what he sees and acts accordingly. The image of Samuel Aranda, who photographed for The New York Times, because in Spain sells more famous photograph portrays not only the reality of Yemen but of the whole revolution of the Arab Spring and exalts the figure of the woman because she is who stands firm while holding the wounded, because the niqab is not blind and his hands are also stained with the same revolutionary blood. Look how free is the subsequent interpretation that some see in it the famous scene in La Piedad .