The third photo I have is one taken by Rina Castelnuovo and is of a Palestinian man wearing a mask staring at an Israeli solider behind a fence. The man is protesting a separation barrier being built by the Israeli government to divide Palestinians and Israelis. The man stands there confident and brave knowing that in previous cases people have been shot for coming to close to the white wall that you see in the picture.
Rina Castelnuovo, who was born in Israel in 1956, recently won the Best of Photojournalism 2010 Still Photos for her album found on the Best of Photojournalism website. She is a freelance photojournalist for the Associated Press and takes many picture about war along with its crisis and struggle.
This photograph gives me only a few news values, but the ones it does are very strong. Impact, knowing the background of the story the man in the mask is very brave as he protests towards the Israeli government. Bizarreness, because when we as Americans see a man wearing a mask like this we always assume he is a bad guy, and seeing how calm both men seem to look is unsettling to me. Conflict is definitely in play here as the whole photo is depicted around controversy and hate as the man protests the way he feels. Finally, Currency because these things are still going on and people in other countries fight for their freedom every single day whether secretly or openly like the masked man above.
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