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Islam, or submission to God

looked through the photos awarded in the competition The Best of Photojournalism 2009 and I have to admit that some shook me reportage Andrea Bruce Fri "Female Circumcision" . As it turns out, Islam in some of their editions, to "cleanse" the girl with the "inadequate or erotic thoughts and actions, makes the clitoris cut out.

Actually most frightening is the signature for the end of the last photo:
"We do not know why we do it, but the will never stop Because Islam and our elders require it."
Every self-respecting fundamentalist should have a shirt with this inscription.

Well, Islam seeks only to produce exemplary citizens. Just what is the man who does not need to use their own conscience, to think and decide for yourself, because everything has been invented for him and determined? Can an animal which, without batting an eye stonest his minor daughter, who loved my boyfriend and cold-bloodedly kills teenage gays?
world in which it is assumed that man is evil by nature and can not change where he tricked cut anything that is not for reproduction, is a very sad place.

So what that there is such a part of the brain that is responsible for our free will - in many parts of the world and so is carried out successful operations of its amputation.

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pivotal moment of the invisible hunter

FRANCE. 1932. Paris. Place de 1'Europe, Gare Saint Lazare. Copyright Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos

Image of a man run into a puddle, as well as the exact fraction of a second before he touches the feet of water, is probably the most famous photograph of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Maybe there is even a famous photo at all. What is more or less it means that everyone has already posted anything about it ... Although it still makes an impression on me.

World in 1932, when the picture was taken, was a very interesting place. In the U.S., where Franklin Delano Roosevelt has just been elected president of the Great Depression was in top form and kicked all the ass - Dow Jones reached the bottom, and the unemployment rate was 33%. On the other side of everything, Stalin officially recognized God as worn and threadbare idea is used to oppress the masses of workers. If God did not exist, you can safely close all churches. Finally, the Bolsheviks would never be looked at his hands. In France, killed the president - what's interesting, apparently in an act of protest against the passivity in the face of Bolshevism. Japan rozpychała an armed elbows in China. In Germany, Adolf Hitler became a citizen, and SS, then still a Nazi militia, began again to work legally (to be able to finally really special legally murdered opponents of Hitler in 1934).
wonder if anyone knew where it all going and what it really is a key photo of Cartier-Bresson. Europe is jumping into the unknown, and unfortunately broken rims wróżyły it as well.

The photography in general, Bresson wrote that "depends on the simultaneous recognition in a split second the importance of the event, and this method of organization forms in order to give this event the appropriate meaning." "You have to be yourself and you forget about yourself" in order to "discover the right time and position from which a photographer will be able to shell the fact a decisive moment." Which of course is not easy - Bresson reportedly wypstrykał then at that point the entire movie in search of that one shot.

But just as there is one truth about a given event, there is no "one decisive documenting the reality of the moment ".
Just change the point of view, or the moment you release the shutter and the picture can capture a slightly different situation - but just as real and meaningful.

Eve Sonneman, Oranges, Manhattan, 1978, Copyright Eve Sonneman

More Bresson - Decisive Moment album and Magnum page.