scenes from the class war

the annual world press photo awards were announced a couple days ago. the photo of the year award went to this stunning image from anthony suau, of an armed sheriff enforcing an eviction order in cleveland, ohio:




from afp:

Suau's black and white image taken for Time magazine shows an armed sheriff moving through a home in Cleveland, Ohio, in March 2008 following the eviction for mortgage foreclosure.

The officer has to ensure the inhabitants have moved out and left no weapons behind.

"The strength of the picture is in its opposites," said jury chairman MaryAnne Golon.

"It's a double entendre. It looks like a classic conflict photograph, but it is simply the eviction of people from a house following foreclosure. Now war in in its classic sense is coming into people's houses because they can't pay their mortgages."