As a sponsor of the World Press Photo 07 exhibition in Toronto, The Walrus is pleased to present a critical analysis of a selection of the images.“I am not at home when I am at work, and not at work when I am at home,” said Karl Marx, describing alienated labour. But what if your home is your work, your religion, and your ideology, and your own state, the one you believe in, has come to take it away from you, or you away from it? This is the dilemma captured in and through this brilliantly simple and evocative image. The fact that it appears staged — a lone woman settler pushing up against the muscle of the Israeli military — lends an almost endearing quality to it: the human spirit working against a machine that has become unknown, so unknown that it doesn’t think twice about this strange removal. Like much great war imagery, this photograph is confusing, as confusing as the human agency that leads to the extinguishment of ideas and causes.Further reading in The Walrus:
The Walrus HOOPP Pension Debate
Be It Resolved That Canadians Are Incapable
of Saving for Their Retirement Needs Alone
12 pm, Wednesday, May 30 at
Hart House Debate Room, Toronto
The Walrus Glenbow Debate
Calgary’s Cowboy Culture:
Living Legacy or Just History?
6:30 pm, Thursday, June 7 at
Epcor Centre: Max Bell Theatre, Calgary
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