One Shot
Collectif de photographes Reuters
Reuters
In the seventeenth century, William Shakespeare speculated that ‘Time’s the king of men’, but what remains of his observation today? Many billions of seconds and an uninterrupted stream of images, as if the earth itself in all its immensity, were intent on telling its own story: from a remote jungle village to Silicon Valley, from shantytowns to war-torn districts and from football pitches to the armoured glass buildings favoured by the powerful. News is a question of tempo, a sequence of life and of death, which photographers are first to capture.
Preview
The photographers of Reuters know this well: from the humblest of pilgrims to the most pensive of prostitutes, from the sleeping child to the impassive young recruits of the Indian army, nothing cannot be photographed, everything can be captured through the lens: blood, sweat, fear and tears; even the quiet gaze of an adolescent suddenly dazzled by his own dreams .
Hence, they seize and distil into a unique image, in a single stroke, a cutting glimpse of a never-ending story. A freeze frame from eternity : one shot, such as the last cigarette of the condemned man, such as the raising of the red curtain as the show begins, such as an outburst of laughter among friends just as night sets in.
Just as the photographers of Reuters decide to send out to the whole world these glimpses of unknown lives they have so carefully chosen to record.
Brigitte Ollier
