A photograph

Last semester I had my first photograph class and I had to do an oral presentation about the Photojournalism. When I was looking for exponents I found a group of photographers that call their work the "Anti-Photojournalism" because they try to make photos with a new personal vision about the events that they cover.

And then I found this picture: 

 

The photograph is call "The Day Nobody Died, 2008" and it was taken by two photographers, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, in Afghanistan in the middle of the war when they were traveling with The British Army. The story says that in that week of June (when the photo was taken) more than a hundred of British soldiers died by the attacks, but at the fifth day of their journey literally "nobody died". So they took a roll of photographic paper 50 meter long and 76.2 cm wide and unrolled a seven-meter section of the paper and exposes in to the sun for 20 seconds. The results you can seen here, is a mix of powerful colors that express the feelings of the day.

I really like this photo because is a non-figurative, unique way to show an event, offering a profound critique to the conventional Photojournalism and the current professional exercise of war journalism.