AFMAZAR 01-For the attention of foreign pix-A man fed the doves of the shrine of Azrat Ali in the city of Mazar-i Sharif where the spirit of Ali, the son of the prophet Mohammad is kept. Twenty pairs of doves were orignally brought to the shrine in the sixteenth century by Sultan Hussein Byeqra from Nejev, in modern day Iraq, where Ali is buried. The doves, known locally as Azrat’s army, and as symbols of peace are according to the current mullah of the mosque, the first to leave when fighting breaks out, a frequent occurence, and the last to return. Photo by James Hill/6 December 2001.
而展場的最後所陳列的「疫情下的世界(Life in the Pandemic)」展區,則是呈現了2021年「特寫新聞攝影獎」的全部作品,記錄了西班牙巴塞隆納在疫情發生期間,人們的痛苦、孤單與悲傷,以及難得的溫馨時刻,讓人為之動容。
In this Monday, June 22, 2020 photo, Agustina Canamero, 81, and Pascual Pérez, 84, hug and kiss through a plastic film screen to avoid contracting the new coronavirus at a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain. Even when it comes wrapped in plastic, a hug can convey tenderness and relief, love and devotion. The fear that gripped Agustina Cañamero during the 102 days she and her 84-year-old husband spent physically separated during Spain’s coronavirus outbreak dissolved the moment the couple embraced through a screen of plastic film. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
普立茲新聞攝影獎(Pulitzer Prize for Photography)由自匈牙利移民美國的Joseph Pulitzer所成立,一生投入美國報業的他,亦是《聖路易快郵報》(St.Louis Post Dispatch)、《紐約世界報》(New York World)的發行人,而他更是培育美國新聞優秀人才哥倫比亞大學新聞學院(Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism)的創辦人,而他所創立的普立茲獎,主要表彰新聞、文學與音樂等領域的優秀創作者與作品。