It's odd but I can't actually tell the difference between Reuters, World Press Photo, Drik News, The New Internationalist, photography equipment companies or governments. They all seem to be shaking hands quite a bit. Although Andrew Biraj (credited with this photo) is listed at World Press Photo (sponsored by Canon and the Dutch lottery of all things), his portrait photographer Saiful Huq Omi is also listed there, and Saiful's portrait appears to be done by yet another Bangladeshi photographer/organization ("Md Main Uddin" and "Drik") which links back to The New Internationalist, which as far as I can tell is Oxford, UK again. Andrew Biraj ("Barrage!") was educated in the UK. World Press Photo's sponsor SkyNet Worldwide Express was created in London (but is now in Lebanon?) and so on.
Reuters. Associated Press. Whatever this jumble of pseudo-British things is. A whole lotta' London and Netherlands goin' on with this Indian news.
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Edit: check out the "correspondents" pages from Drik news.
http://www.driknews.com/user/index#
Really simmy stuff. Looks like vicsims of "terrorism" rejects. Why should professional photographers all be photographed the same way as vicsims? I smell someone trying to get away with another use of their cheap profile-generating software.
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I am only left scratching my head at why they must create another false expansion of the size of the media.
I guess if people saw just how few people are really producing all the news around the world, it would be frustrating so they have to invent "news companies" and populate them with sims.
By the way, is "drik" meant to be a joke? In Dutch, drik is reminiscent of drukkerij, which means "printing house" and also translates as "drink" in Danish, besides sounding like drink in English as well. The logo is almost nonsensical but kind of resembles the 2012 Olympics jumble with letters pointing in different directions but slightly resembling "Zion".
I can almost hear them laughing at this logo design and telling us,
"Lap it up, we're producing pics faster than you can pick 'em apart!"