If you haven’t yet made the trip, this is the last week of the Annenberg Space for Photography’s Pictures of the Year International exhibition (ends Nov. 1). Many of the images are not for the squeamish—2008 was clearly a brutal year, lest we forget—but the photojournalism that resulted was the finest in memory.
A clear standout is freelance photographer Jodi Bieber’s Real Beauty series, which earned first prize for portrait series. Of the work, Bieber explains: “I felt a strong need to create a body of work that goes against what the media has depicted as beautiful. Even within a [complex] society such as South Africa, across all communities, women hold unnecessary perceptions of self-doubt around themselves and their beauty from an early age.”
Pictures of the Year International:
The World. In High Resolution, runs through Nov. 1 at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2000 Avenue of the Stars, #10, Century City. www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org.
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