Dogs bark ...

"... surreal and disturbing ..."

Could be used to describe the judging - so I've been told.

Wait, what?

This is about as powerful as my pinky finger.

Is this a joke/hoax?

says nothing at all

ditto ditto

did you post the wrong pic by mistake?

Drunk?

The guy is well-dressed and has a magazine and a bag of juice.
I think he looks like he's sleeping off a drunk and looks nothing like the pictures of the poor in Africa that I have seen.
This photo does not depict poverty.

Nothing special

It's actually a loaf of bread... This image is nothing new

me too

"The more I look at it, the more powerful it becomes"

me too............
...............hahahahahahahahahaha

Joke

Is this some sort of joke? I'm afraid this is a terrible picture of poverty. You people really do need a reality check. What planet are you on?

The end

If that photo won a prize then photography is over end of

There was a time.....

...... when Jon Tarrant, Chris Dickie Geoffrey Crawley et al edited this magazine when it was the journal of record and when the opinions published really mattered. There was a time when it looked good, was authoritative and worth buying every week. For that matter it was available every week! Now days all you can say it there was a time.....

A rich man sleep

Compared that to what I photograph almost every week down here in a large city in Brazil this photo is a joke. I would love to have some support or help from those who care and can to continue may um-payed work which I have done for the past 2 years. Unfortunately the fact that I must eat and pay my simple bills my time with the camera is about 1 day a week - to little
If I had the time and the resources I probably could do much more. So please check it out
www.flickr.com/photos/wilson_bacelar
on the the set " The Forgotten Ones "
Thanks

What is it?

A single reportage image should surely tell the whole story but I had to read the blurb to find out what I was looking at. It could have been taken here on the UK south coast, in a park, showing a youngster still in his grubby working clothes having a nap in the sun before going home with a loaf of bread for his tea and something to read. There is not enough information in the shot to tell me otherwise.

........

There's no social context in this picture. In my opinion there is nothing at all but just a man sleeping in a park. It represents nothing.

Your little world

This picture serves only to devalue whatever the competition was. And along with that the BJP, photographers seeing this will scoff at the naivety of any so called judge selecting this ad
as a winner,it really is just soooooo bad

Against which images was it competing ?

Like all other comments, I do not feel that it is a good picture, let alone a powerful one.

"single image IPA" would mean that the winner would be an image that don't need a comment or to be part of a series.

Typically the perfect image for such a price would be Koudelka's famous picture of Wenceslas Square in Prague just before the invation (when he show his watch in the lower part)

Now back to this image, without any context, we cannot locate this image, we cannot tell if this person is a tramp, a drunk, a junkie, or someone needing medical assistance.

Worse, knowing the context, any tourist could have taken that picture, it didn't need any specific implication.

Finally, the framing is anything but powerful. The photograph was standing dominating the scene, he haven't made any particular effort to frame his picture (subject in the center)

This picture may have some value in a reportage or in a book, but certainly not as a standalone.

And to conlude, what's original with a photography of misery in Africa. It is very very cliché.

Did the jury wanted to confort their own prejudice ?

this is a winning photo?

Is this really a winning entry? It just looks like a drunk man having a kip! ..

Who were the judges

I'm not gonna beat around the bush. The image is rubbish and says nothing at all about poverty.
If this is what is judged to be a great photograph then one has to ask who the hell was doing the judging?
Considering the thousands of breath taking photos, taken this shouldn't even be on the list.
Like most photographers, who make a living selling their work that photo would not even be downloaded from my card had I taken it.
Utter crap.

April Fool!!!

Ha Ha Ha Ha you had me going then for a while. Until I checked the calendar and noticed it was April 1st. Oh dear, how I laughed.

OH NO! silly me the calendar says 18/10/10 WTF, are you guys serious!??

You can not be serious....

If the judges thought this was so outstanding, I really would like to see what it was being judged against.

Quite frankly it has no merit whatsoever, no context, no technical ability, and absolutely no aesthetic or pictorial worth.

As others have said, this would have been deleted from my memory card or dumped in the bin as an extremely WEAK image.

just saying.

Amazing

What are the merits of this photograph?
Is it the South African connection? Or would the same photograph taken in Liverpool, Glasgow, Leeds or Bradford be considered? Its an every day scene around the world, A guy taking forty winks or recovering from a hang over. It could be Mumbai, Somalia, Hyde Park. An award winner? I have seen better street photography in beginners forums!

onnowaais

please tell me you're pushing my leg? yes?