The Press Photographer’s Year 2011 exhibition does it again

The words here are from the post I did last year about the Press Photographer’s Year exhibition at the National Theatre. They still hold true and I hope you get the chance to see the exhibition this year.

 

If I don’t tell you about anything more this year

This is the one event I most hold dear

YouTube, Flicker, Facebook you can have them all

But if you want to see the truth take a press photographer with you.

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Were Barnard* and Bob* right, is it true, I certainly believe so

A picture can beat a thousand words of print

Just go to the National theatre

And you’ll see what I meant.

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Not for a play you understand, not for dance

Something more profound that leaves you in a trance.

The great painters had it and so too still do a few

These photos are as captivating as a Michelangelo.

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Will you learn anything new, what will you see?

No Big Brother here, this is true reality

In all it’s beauty, despair and hope

I bet you can’t go there and not feel a bit choked.

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You see every man thinks his burden is the heaviest

Until you see a picture of the lowest

Then you realise the petty things we worry about here

Are nothing compared to what other people are going through there.

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And that’s why this is an essential exhibition to see

It puts you back in touch with humanity.

Give more than you take and make people’s day right

And just maybe your burden will seem a little more light.

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Go to the Press Photographers exhibition you won’t be disappointed.

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The Press Photographers Year 2011 exhibition is at the National Theatre in the Lyttelton Exhibition area. It’s on until 4^th September and is free. Click Press Photographers Year for dates as it’s not on every day.

If you liked this you might also like the one I did about Nelson Mandela on the right hand side.

*Quotes: Fred Barnard is believed to have been behind the phrase – A picture is worth a thousand words. While the song ‘Running Away’ by Bob Marley has the lyric – Every man thinketh his burden is the heaviest.

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