The museum I introduce you is Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in ebisu. I saw “World Press Photo 13” when I went there. I am interested in the press. It is a reason I chose this one.
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| Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography |
The exhibition has the photos which tell us the documentaries and the press in the world. This exhibition is taken place every year. Before it begins, the contest to rank collected photos is taken place. This contest collected 103,481 of pictures from professional photographers this year. And we can see 160 pictures from them. There are 9 categories; general news, sports action, sports feature, contemporary issues, spot news, dairy life, portraits, arts and performance and nature. The greatest photo is prized as “the World Press Photo Prize of the year”. The person prized the World Press Photo this year was Paul Hansen who took “Gaza City, Palestinian Territories”(look at the below photo). So this exhibition is held in about 100 places all over the world and has about two millions people through a year.
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| Gaza City, Palestinian Territories |
I thought that the power of photos were really wonderful when I was there. Though I don’t know about world press well, such scenes exist somewhere in the world. That inspired me. I was too lazy to know the news. Moreover this exhibition shows not only the facts that happened in the past but also a clue that we think about the problem or chances we think something to remember.
And I like visiting museums. I usually don’t go to museums, but I enjoyed seeing different arts this time. So I want to try another museum! There are a lot of something new for me in museums.
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Hi, this is Ms. MacGregor. It seems you had an impressive experience at this photo exhibition. I go to the World Press exhibition every year, but have not been yet this year. Last year, most of the photos were sad or violent - lots of death and despair. How about this year? I want to see some happy photos!
ReplyDeleteI like this museum and their movie theatre shows interesting films too. Check it out!
You go to the World Press exhibition every year, don't you? I wanted to know this exhibition earlier! And this year's have also similar kinds of photos a lot including Tsumani in Tohoku. So if you go this year, you will feel sad again. But as you know, nature or sports are powerful. I like these catergories' photos. So I recommend you go there this year too.
DeleteI realized there is a movie theatre. I will go there next time! Thank you.