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If this is world's best in photojournalism, then it is shocking. Make no mistakes. Most of the photographs, featured at the Annual World Press Photo Exhibition at Delhi, are in fact quite excellent. And that intensifies the disgust. What a waste of talent! For the first thing that struck this reviewer after watching the exhibition was: don't people get bored doing the same thing over and over again? The same hackneyed stereotypes of a disaster-ridden developing world, which, it seems, is cursed with death, desolation and disasters for posterity. The Serbian crisis; death in Rwanda, even as diamond hunters try to eke out a little fortune; desolation in Afghanistan; victims of the nerve gas attack in a Moscow theatre; petrified faces of the victims of the communal carnage in Gujarat. Granted that the developing world has its fair share of woes, and these should, by no means, go unrepresented. But does the cr

Publication Date: 
30/10/2003
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