THE‘Handle turns 80. Congratulations.
Every day, with texts, photographs and videos, it brings us closer to the distant world and documents the near one with 3500 news items and more than 2500 images.
Where it does not arrive, it acquires event material from other international agencies or local operators. He does it for us, though never let us lack information.
The images
To tell the story of Ansa, we review the press kit of images.
It is divided into 9 subfolders. The generalist ones: conflicts, politics, entertainment, sports and others. But there is one that captures attention, covid.
And here they are, the photographs, these small fragments of the static world, terrible and innocent, which collect precious moments, our memory. Let’s open other folders, the Normandy landing recalls one word, liberationthe one with which we won the future.
Icons of our time
In another there is the Earth seen from the Moon. He won’t say anything to anyone under 50. But for us, children of the time, it was an epiphany, we observed our planet, home, as the extra-terrestrial ET would teach us just over a decade later. It was there time when we realized we were just a dot in the universe. We observe the Costa Concordia collapsed on its side, tragically and ignobly shipwrecked on the Isola del Giglio.
We arrive at this dramatic presentation with the visual testimony of an explosion during the Israeli attack on Beirut on November 15th. How photogenic war is and how the history of photography and journalism is full of blood and death, cities razed to the ground and identities destroyed.
The present
Looking at contemporary tragedies, Gaza and Ukraine, we can only see that we have learned nothing from history.
Happy Birthday Ansawhich reminds us of the world we live in and how precious and indispensable information is to continue fighting and make it a better one.
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