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Monday, December 05, 2005
Pictures of a godless world
A kind reader points me to the winners gallery of the 2005 World Press Photo Contest, and I urge you to check out some of the work on display there. Every good photograph contains stories and mysteries of its own, and speaks to us in a way that words can't. There are plenty of those here.
One that struck me in particular was Arko Datta's prizewinning picture in Cuddalore, after the tsunami, of a woman grieving for a relative whose arm enters the frame from the left side. It is a remarkable photograph, and it brought back memories (and even smells) of the time I spent travelling through Tamil Nadu after last year's tsunami. It was also around the time I stopped being an agnostic and became an atheist. Why? Well, I look at that picture, and I can imagine the woman asking a question that has no answer. That's why.
(I had posted on this subject here a year ago, by and by, and I also recommend you read this fine interview of Douglas Adams, in which he speaks lucidly about atheism.)
One that struck me in particular was Arko Datta's prizewinning picture in Cuddalore, after the tsunami, of a woman grieving for a relative whose arm enters the frame from the left side. It is a remarkable photograph, and it brought back memories (and even smells) of the time I spent travelling through Tamil Nadu after last year's tsunami. It was also around the time I stopped being an agnostic and became an atheist. Why? Well, I look at that picture, and I can imagine the woman asking a question that has no answer. That's why.
(I had posted on this subject here a year ago, by and by, and I also recommend you read this fine interview of Douglas Adams, in which he speaks lucidly about atheism.)
