{"id":193,"date":"2007-06-22T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.org\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2007-06-22T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T18:54:00","slug":"interview-with-spencer-platt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/22\/interview-with-spencer-platt\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Spencer Platt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px;  margin-bottom: 4px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.gettyimages.com\/news\/2007\/06\/20\/getty-images-passion-for-pictures\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"tag\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Platt2.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"244\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><i>&#8220;In war, there\u2019s often beauty. War isn\u2019t just catastrophe, it just isn\u2019t ugliness, people get married, put on beautiful clothes, people go out in their car, a Mini Cooper, whatever, that\u2019s part of war. I think the juxtaposition there with the rubble and this youth- this youth that stands against death- is intriguing.&#8221; ~Spencer Platt<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gettyawards.mediaroom.com\/index.php?s=photographers&#038;id=67\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"tag\">Spencer Platt<\/a> was recently awarded the prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpressphoto.org\/?bandwidth=high\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"tag\">2006 World Press Photo of the Year Award<\/a> for his much-discussed image of a group of young Lebanese driving through a destroyed neighborhood in Beirut. In this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.gettyimages.com\/news\/2007\/06\/20\/getty-images-passion-for-pictures\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"tag\">podcast<\/a> Jonathan Klein, CEO and Co-Founder of Getty Images, sits down with Platt and discusses the World Press picture, 9\/11, and life as a photojournalist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mediastorm\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Spencer+Platt\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/World+Press+Photo\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/photojournalism\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/photography+award\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Jonathan+Klein\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Getty+Images\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/women+car+Beiruit\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/conflict+photography\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/war+photography\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/photographer+interview\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In war, there\u2019s often beauty. War isn\u2019t just catastrophe, it just isn\u2019t ugliness, people get married, put on beautiful clothes, people go out in their car, a Mini Cooper, whatever, that\u2019s part of war. I think the juxtaposition there with the rubble and this youth- this youth that stands against death- is intriguing.&#8221; ~Spencer Platt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-storytelling","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}