US foreclosure image is 2008 World Press Photo
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Anthony Suau,/Time
This picture by US photographer Anthony Suau, for Time won the World Press Photo of the Year 2008 award, it was announced by the organisers on 13 February 2009 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. US Economy in Crisis: Following eviction, Detective Robert Kole must ensure residents have moved out of their home in Cleveland, Ohio, 26 March 2008.
In pictures: The world press photo awards
A picture of an armed sheriff moving through an American home after an eviction due to a mortgage foreclosure was named World Press Photo of 2008 on Friday.
Jury members said the strength of the photo by American Anthony Suau for Time magazine was in its opposites -- it looks like a classic war photograph, but is simply the eviction of people from a house.
"Now war in its classic sense is coming into people's houses because they can't pay their mortgages," jury chair MaryAnne Golon said.
Fellow juror Akinbode Akinbiyi said: "All over the world people will be thinking: 'This is what is happening to all of us'."
The news agency Agence France-Presse won the Best Spot News Photo category with an image of post-election violence in Kenya and also the People In The News Singles category with an image of tribal conflict in western Kenya.
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might very well feel that they have nothing else to loose and
blow his head off just for the hell of it. No matter how small or old
a dog is, you kick him enough and sooner or later he'll bite you.
The people who live there see what happens to Madoff and now
they are are going to be living in their car. Wouldn't you be blind
with rage??
Fred from Boston
Side note: This seems like an excessive amount of force for someone who just lost there home? There is no rhyme or reason for the sheriff to have his gun drawn like that, not to mention he is not holding the gun in the appropriate manner, if he were to fire it would smack himself in the head.
Also if some kids were in the house playing around he would more than likely fire upon them as you can see he is in a state of tunnel vision.
Typical overzealous cop. Actually stupid he could get shot. Too many years of Cheney the impailer, and
draft dogger.
might very well feel that they have nothing else to loose and
blow his head off just for the hell of it. No matter how small or old
a dog is, you kick him enough and sooner or later he'll bite you.
The people who live there see what happens to Madoff and now
they are are going to be living in their car. Wouldn't you be blind
with rage??
Fred from Boston
dramatized!!!!!!!!!!!
most pictures today- presented in the media are fixed!!!!!!!! adobe Photoshop
get real people - you have been screwed for quite some time
San Diego
REALTOR
I agree with the majority. Lousy picture in most every way but a good visual indication of the direction the U.S. is headed. We are only as good as our money...right? Even if it is because we Madoff with someone else's. But lose your job and get behind. Well the picture does tell that story.
This photo is a precursor to many more of the same as our police forces, ostensibly tasked with protection and service, become no more than thugs in the employ of a country that has lost its way.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
greedy members of the real estate and "investment" community who led us into this mess. They will remain insulated
from all culpability unless people get organized and block the give-aways that only preserve executive excess and unearned bonuses at taxpayers' expense. My fear is that we won't organize and that the "recession" will escalate until people are killing
each-other in the streets (or in their homes, if anybody still has one). Even worse, we could become a police state patrolled by the likes of Blackwater mercenaries. The rest of the world will only laugh at us for our stupid complacency over deregulation and war- mongering.
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rules are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787.
Raises the question in my mind: "What is truly going on here?"
The give-away is "following eviction." The residents aren't being evicted at gunpoint; the officer is ensuring no one is in the house following the residents having BEEN evicted already. Don't know about the patrol officer vs detective ..... most detectives I've meant have been in street clothes, most patrol officers in uniform.
I also don't think this picture is worthy of the 'honor' of picture of the year.
As for the event, I again have to question the report accuracy. The room is so disheveled (note even the doorbell chimes are askew), that it appears there was more then (even forceful) eviction at work here.
Good source information at: http://freddevan.com/wordpress/2009/0
While it would be difficult for anybody to argue the severity of the crisis, I have to believe that we (US society), as a whole, are more human than to forcefully eject people from their homes at gun point. I pray that it never comes to that.
Good source information at: http://freddevan.com/wordpress/2009/0
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