Jonathan Klein: Photos that changed the world

Translator: Ereblir Kadriu Reviewer: Liridon Shala

In my industry,

Ne industrine time,

we believe that images can change the world.

ne besojme qe imazhet mund te ndryshojne boten.

Okay, we're naive, we're bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

Ne rregull, ne jemi naiv, ne jemi sy hapur.

The truth is that we know that the

E verteta eshte se ne e dime se

images themselves don't change the world,

imazhet ne vete nuk e ndryshojne boten,

but we're also aware that, since the beginning of photography,

por ne gjithashtu jemi ne dijeni, qe nga fillimi i fotografise,

images have provoked reactions in people,

imazhet kan provokuar reagime ne njerez,

and those reactions have caused change to happen.

dhe keto reagime kane shkaktuar ndryshime .

So let's begin with a group of images.

Pra le te fillojme me nje grup te imazheve.

I'd be extremely surprised

Une do te isha ekstemisht e befasuar

if you didn't recognize many or most of them.

nese ju nuk i njihni shume ose shumicen prej tyre.

They're best described as iconic:

Ata me se miri jane te pershkruara si portrete

so iconic, perhaps, they're cliches.

pra portrete, ndoshta jane klishe.

In fact, they're so well-known

Ne fakt, ato jane aq te njohura

that you might even recognize them

saqe ndoshta mund ti njihni ato

in a slightly or somewhat different form.

ne form te lehte ose paksa ndryshe.

(Laughter)

(Buzeqeshje)

But I think we're looking for something more.

Por mendoj ne jemi duke kerkuar per dicka me shume.

We're looking for something more.

Ne jemi duke kerkuar per dicka me shume.

We're looking for images that shine

Ne jemi duke kerkuar per imazhe qe shendritin

an uncompromising light on crucial issues,

nje drite pa kompromis per ceshtjet e rendesishme,

images that transcend borders, that transcend religions,

imazhe qe kapercejne kufijet, qe kapercejne religjione,

images that provoke us

imazhe qe na provokojne neve

to step up and do something --

te vihemi dhe te bejme dicka--

in other words, to act.

me fjale tjera, te aktrojme.

Well, this image you've all seen.

Mire keto imazhe qe te gjithe ju i keni pare.

It changed our view of the physical world.

Na kane ndryshuar pamjen tone per boten fizike.

We had never seen our planet from this perspective before.

Ne kurre nuk e kemi pare planetin nga kjo prespektive me pare.

Many people credit

Shume njerez atribuojne

a lot of the birth of the environmental movement

ne lindjen e levizjen te ambientit

to our seeing the planet like this

duke pare planetin keshtu

for the first time --

per te paren here --

its smallness, its fragility.

eshte i vogel, eshte fragjil.

Forty years later, this group, more than most,

Katerdhjete vite me vone, ky grup, shume sesa me shume

are well aware of the destructive power

jane te vetdijshem te fuqise destruktive

that our species can wield over our environment.

qe speciet tona mund te zoterojne mjedisin tone.

And at last, we appear to be doing something about it.

Dhe ne fund, ne duket qe bejme dicka per ate.

This destructive power takes many different forms.

Kjo fuqi destruktive merr shume forma te ndryshme.

For example, these images taken by Brent Stirton

Per shembull, keto imazhe te marrura nga Brent Stirton

in the Congo.

ne Congo.

These gorillas were murdered, some would even say crucified,

Keto gorilla ishin vrare, disa mund te thone te kryqezuara,

and unsurprisingly,

dhe jo befasisht,

they sparked international outrage.

ata shkaktuan zemerim nderkomtar.

Most recently,

Me e reja,

we've been tragically reminded of the destructive power of nature itself

neve tragjikisht na eshte kujtuar fuqia destruktive e natyres

with the recent earthquake in Haiti.

me termetin e fundit ne Haiti.

Well, I think what is far worse

Mire, une mendoj se cka eshte me e keqja

is man's destructive power over man.

eshte fuqia destruktive e njerezimit mbi njerezim.

Samuel Pisar, an Auschwitz survivor, said,

Samuel Pisar, nje i mbjetuar ne Auschwitz, tha,

and I'll quote him,

dhe une do te citoj ate,

"The Holocaust teaches us that nature,

" Hulocaust na meson neve se natyra,

even in its cruelest moments,

madje ne momentet me te egera

is benign in comparison with man,

eshte i pa rrezikshme ne krahasim me njeriun,

when he loses his moral compass and his reason."

kur ai humb perimetrin e tij moral dhe arsyen."

There's another kind of crucifixion.

Eshte nje tjter lloj i kryqezimit.

The horrifying images from Abu Ghraib

Imazhet tronditese nga Abu Ghraub

as well as the images from Guantanamo

gjithashtu edhe imazhet nga Gunatanamo

had a profound impact.

paten nje ndikim te thelle.

The publication of those images,

Publikimi i ketyre imazheve,

as opposed to the images themselves,

te kunderta me imazhet ne vete,

caused a government to change its policies.

shkaktuan nje qeveri te ndryshojne politikat e tij.

Some would argue that it is those images

Disa do te argumentojne se jane keto imazhe

that did more to fuel the insurgency in Iraq

qe e nxiten kryengritjen ne Irak

than virtually any other single act.

se pothuajse cdo akt tjter.

Furthermore, those images forever removed

Per me shume, keto imazhe pergjithmone larguan

the so-called moral high ground of the occupying forces.

te ashtu-quajteren toke morale e forcave pushtuese.

Let's go back a little.

Le te kthehemi pak.

In the 1960s and 1970s,

Ne 1960 dhe 1970,

the Vietnam War was basically shown

Lufta e Vietnamit ne thelb ishte shfaqur

in America's living rooms day in, day out.

ne dhomat e ndenjes Amerikane.

News photos brought people face to face

Foto te reja kane sjellur njerezit balle per balle

with the victims of the war: a little girl burned by napalm,

me viktimat e liftes: nje vajze e vogel e djekur nga napalmi,

a student killed by the National Guard

nje student i vrare nga Rojet Kombetare

at Kent State University in Ohio during a protest.

ne Universitetin Kent State ne Ohio gjate nje proteste.

In fact, these images became

Ne fakt, keto imazhe u bene

the voices of protest themselves.

zerat e protestave.

Now, images have power

Tani, imazhet kane fuqi

to shed light of understanding

per te ndare driten e kuptimushmerise

on suspicion, ignorance,

ne dyshim, injorance,

and in particular -- I've given a lot of talks on this

dhe ne vecanti-- Une kam dhene shume diskutime per kete

but I'll just show one image --

por une vetem do te ju tregoj nje imazh--

the issue of HIV/AIDS.

ceshtja e HIV/AIDS.

In the 1980s, the stigmatization of people with the disease

Ne 1980, njollosja e njerezve me semundjen

was an enormous barrier

ishte nje barriere e tmershme

to even discussing or addressing it.

biles per te diskutuar ose adresuar ate

A simple act, in 1987, of the most famous woman in the world,

Nje akt i thjeshte, ne 1987, te gruas me te famshme ne bote,

the Princess of Wales, touching

Princesha e Wales, duke prekur

an HIV/AIDS infected baby

nje femije te infektuar me HIV/AIDS

did a great deal, especially in Europe, to stop that.

berei nje pune te mire, vecanerisht ne Europe, per te ndaluar ate.

She, better than most, knew the power of an image.

Ajo, me mire se shumica, e ka ditur fuqine e imazhit.

So when we are confronted by a powerful image,

Pra kur ne konfrontohemi nga nje imazh i fuqishem,

we all have a choice:

ne te gjithe e kemi nje zgjidhje:

We can look away, or we can address the image.

Ne mund te shikojme larg, ose mund te adresojme imazhin.

Thankfully, when these photos appeared in

Fatmiresisht, kur keto foto u shfaqen

The Guardian in 1998,

Guardian ne 1988,

they put a lot of focus and attention and, in the end, a lot of money

ata vendosen shume fokus dhe vemendje, ne fund , shume para

towards the Sudan famine relief efforts.

ndaj perpjekjeve per te zvogeluar urine ne Sudan.

Did the images change the world?

A e ndryshuan imazhet boten?

No, but they had a major impact.

Jo, por ata paten ndikimin kryesor.

Images often push us to question our core beliefs

Imazhet zakonisht na shtyejne neve te pyesim per besimet tona thelbesore

and our responsibilities to each other.

dhe pergjegjesit tona per njeri tjetrin.

We all saw those images after Katrina,

Ne te gjithe pame keto imazhe pas Katrina,

and I think for millions of people

dhe mendoj per miliona njerez

they had a very strong impact.

ata paten nje ndikm shume te fuqishem.

And I think it's very unlikely

Dhe une mendoj eshte shume e papelqyeshme

that they were far from the minds of Americans

qe ata ishin larg nga intelekti i Amerikaneve

when they went to vote in November 2008.

kur ata shkuan te votoj ne Nentor 2008.

Unfortunately, some very important images

Fatkeqeshit, disa imazhe shume te rendesishme

are deemed too graphic or disturbing for us to see them.

konsiderohen shume grafik ose shetesuese per ne per ti pare ato.

I'll show you one photo here,

Une do te ja tregoj nje foto ketu,

and it's a photo by Eugene Richards of an Iraq War veteran

dhe eshte nje foto nga Eugene Richards te nje veterani ne luften e Irakut

from an extraordinary piece of work,

nga nje pjese e jashtezakonshme e punes,

which has never been published, called War Is Personal.

i cila asnjehere nuk ka qene e publikuar, e quajtur Lufta eshte Personale.

But images don't need to be graphic

Por imazhet nuk kane nevoje te jene grafike

in order to remind us of the tragedy of war.

ne menyre qe te na kujtohet tragjedia e luftes.

John Moore set up this photo at Arlington Cemetery.

John Moore e vendosi kete foto ne Arlington Cemetery.

After all the tense moments of conflict

Pas te gjithave momente tensionuese te konfliktit

in all the conflict zones of the world,

ne te gjitha zonat e konfliktit te botes,

there's one photograph from a much quieter place

eshte nje fotofraf nga nje vend me i qete

that haunts me still, much more than the others.

i qe me shqetson mua ende, shume me shume se te tjeret.

Ansel Adams said, and I'm going to disagree with him,

Ansel Adams tha, une nuk do te pajtohem me te,

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

" Ju nuk e merrni nje fotograf, ju e beni ate."

In my view, it's not the photographer who makes the photo,

Sipas opinionit tim, nuk eshte fotografi qe e bene foton,

it's you.

jeni ju.

We bring to each image

Ne sjellim te cdo imazh

our own values, our own belief systems,

vlerat tona, sistemet tona te besimit,

and as a result of that, the image resonates with us.

dhe si rezultat i saj, imazhi bashkevepron me ne.

My company has 70 million images.

Comapania ime ka 7- milion imazhe.

I have one image in my office.

Une kam nje imazh ne zyren time.

Here it is.

Ja ku eshte.

I hope that the next time you see

Shpresoj qe heren tjeter te shihni

an image that sparks something in you,

nje imazh qe ngjall dicka ne ju,

you'll better understand why,

ju me se mire do te kuptoni pse,

and I know that speaking to this audience,

dhe une e di se te folurit me audiencen

you'll definitely do something about it.

ju definitivisht do te beni dicka rreth saj.

And thank you to all the photographers.

Dhe faleminderit per te gjithe fotografet.

(Applause)

(Duartroktije)