Sunday, November 16, 2008

Nuclear Protest


I found this image on Time Magazines' Photos of the Week, and instantly found it entrancing. The colors are almost conflicting. There is a bright and soft spring color in the field in which the hooded figures stand. The subjects and the nuclear field are dark and solid, giving it a depressing mood to it, as well as those colors reminding me of industrialization. The one holding a flower is conflicting the colors, almost like a contrast.

I also find it a powerful picture. The figures look like they are in search of a kind of peace or break from industrialization. What is also interesting is the light coming from the suggested power plant. It almost looks like a hope is shining through the industrial nuclear plant.

The way that the subjects are positioned on the side of the photograph makes it interesting as well, because you see a lot more of the yellow flowers stretching all the way out ot the solid gray light. It seems to me that it represents something, yet I do not know what.

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