Friday, February 10, 2012

Arab Spring - Pieta

arab spring

 

Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda has won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award for the New York Times with an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.

Jurors said Friday the photo captured multiple facets of the “Arab Spring” uprisings across the Middle East last year.

It was taken at a field hospital inside a mosque in Sanaa, Yemen, on Oct. 15.

It may be so obvious as to make pointing it out redundant, but I couldn’t help noticing the similarity between the photo and Michelangelo's Pieta.

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