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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.
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| 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”.
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| 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
