Research On The Winning Works In The Sports Category Of The Holland Prize In 2009-2018

after more than 60 years of accumulation,WPP has become the most authoritative and influential photography competition in the world.Therefore,by combing and studying his award-winning sports works,we can not only find out the value standard of WPP,but also give guidance to many domestic photographers.This paper takes the winning sports works in the past ten years as the research object.This paper mainly uses the methods of literature review,content analysis and other scientific research methods to discuss the three aspects of topic selection,expression methods and media values:(1)Statistics and analysis of subject selection.The data were statistically analyzed according to the three indicators of shooting object,sports form and shooting location.It is concluded that the main subjects of the sports works of this decade are male youth.The works still focus on competitive sports,but the number of works focusing on mass sports is increasing year by year.In terms of the location distribution,the economic development is closely related to the attention of the Netherlands.In addition,the selected topic of the award-winning works in WPP sports competition in China is relatively single,and most of them are confined to the theme of competitive sports.(2)To analyze the ways of expression of sports photography from the perspective of semiotics.By introducing related theories theories,it is pointed out that image expression has direct and extended meanings.This paper illustrates that WPP photographers use the techniques of color,Angle and scene,as well as the combination of symbols and elements such as expression,environment and apparatus to convey different meanings in different types of sports photography works,so as to realize the meaning construction of sports works.(3)Explore the media values advocated by the WPP officials from the carding of the works--call for humanistic care and attach importance to the media values.Finally,we also concluded from the study that the evaluation criteria of WPP competitions are changing,and only in the form of performance sports is no longer their focus.The works which can shake the heart sincerely and rich in sports culture are more in line with their value judgment.At the same time,we also put forward Suggestions for Chinese photographers to pay more attention to the expression of "humanistic spirit".