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Monday, July 1, 2013

Obama Robben Island pics voted “most exciting of all fucking time”



Image by JIM WATSON / Getty Images.
From BuzzFeed.com
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In a first for South African history, 100% of the South African population reached a unanimous consensus on something this morning. Their point of agreement wasn’t racial politics or corruption, but rather the pictures taken of Obama’s visit to Nelson Mandela’s place of incarceration

According to consensus, the pictures are “the most exciting, impressive, totally not cliché attempt in the history of overly choreographed photo eds to make the US President seem sincere and human in the light of recent surveillance and drone attack controversies.”

The pictures feature such memorable, life-changing, iconic and thought-provoking images such as Obama shot from a distance, walking through a collection of hallways and doorways that could totally not be mistaken for just any arbitrary place in the world.

“I loved the part where he walked through a doorway. It had me in tears,” said local Limpopo resident John Mxamba.


The pictures, which first feature the man himself walking alone in the hallways of the most famous prison in the world that isn’t Guantanamo, quickly move on to show his wife in the picture, lending it an air of “overwhelming emotion and vulnerability”.

Photographic award committees have singled out the most powerful photo of the series, Obama staring out a window.

Image by Carolyn Kaster / AP
From BuzzFeed.com

 “The framing and composition of the photo just goes to underline the kinds of cutting edge photography that is being produced by the diverse collection of independent media institutions across the world REUTERS” said iPhone owner, Instagram user and Chief Photo Editor at the Sunday Times Sipia Tone.

Famous South African photographers could not be reached for comment, because they were too busy being unemployed, retrenched and replaced by new, super-artisitic iPhone wielding photojournalists. 

President Obama is also allegedly being put forward as a nominee for “Most Ridiculously Perfect Handwriting Currently In Practice on Earth”.

Image by JASON REED / Reuters
From BuzzFeed.com
 Those wishing to feel their heartstrings tugged by this powerful and iconic and not at all shite photographic expose see the full images at http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/16-moving-images-from-president-obamas-visit-to-the-prison-n