English as a journalistic language
…i fotografi della polizia, hanno chiesto la pubblicazione delle immagini sui principali siti e tabloid per porre con forza la questione della dipendenza e della salute. Immagini shock che per una volta servono non a stimolare la curiosità dei lettori, ma a cercare un aiuto nel tentativo combattere il fenomeno.
Adolescenti seminude, ragazzini completamente ubriachi e fiumi di alcool. Nulla di nuovo per le strade di Cardiff, in Inghilterra. Quest’anno, però, gli studenti per inaugurare il nuovo anno accademico si sono dati appuntamento in centro per una festa a tema: “Infermiere ninfomani e dottori volgari”.
They look like images you might find in some depressing police dossier.
Here, in vivid detail, is a squalid portrait of binge-drinking Britain. Some of the more incapacitated specimens are in mid-vomit. A few have simply passed out. Tequila-fuelled young women strike crude poses that will (or should) mortify them in the sober light of day. […] For, in the eyes of the experts and professionals gathered at the International Festival of Photojournalism in the French city of Perpignan, this portfolio of work —entitled Cardiff After Dark —was a beautifully crafted and realistic portrait of life in modern Britain.
(e se per caso voleste sapere davvero di cosa si parla:)
Though the Daily Mail captioned this picture as a drunken girl lying helpless, she was, in fact, posing. […] said the caption: “A woman apparently incapable of standing lies defenceless on the streets of Cardiff.”
According to the photographer, however, that word “apparently” deserves a bit more weight. He has stated to the Guardian that it is misdescribed in the apocalyptic report on the black comedy that is urban Britain: “I explained it to the Daily Mail, but still they put a wrong and misleading caption. She was with a group of friends, they were just a bunch of people on a night out, they laughed about the pile of rubbish and she laid down on the pavement and her friends photographed her. She was not drunk, it was a joke she made with friends. It happened right in front of me, so I shot it as well.”
