What is it with being able to speak a foreign language?
Continue Readingthere is no way to tell if the illustration is decrying the practice of targeted and discriminatory lending practices by playing off white or conservative stereotypes to make a point or they are saying, in the most flat-out and racist way, that the restoration of "fair practice" to the...
Continue ReadingWhat I'm curious about, however, is why we don't see more photos of anger.
Continue ReadingIt's interesting how much differently we might look at a picture given where we are along the "equality trajectory.
Continue ReadingDo we think the entire controversy portends the need for a larger, more open discussion? Yes, we do. And we are impressed with the high caliber of discussion our post has engendered.
Continue ReadingThe lead image and the ones above leave not just a bitter taste but build on the archive of leaving Dodge.
Continue ReadingWell, talk about the Obama's going to the furthest lengths to leverage pop-culture.
Continue ReadingMy purpose today is to speak to two stories. The first involves a photographer's sensitivity in documenting a profound and deadly threat to our society. The second involves editing stories to win prizes.
Continue ReadingFashion isn’t timeless, but the photographer’s artifice has captured something about photography itself.
Continue ReadingThe other notable effect from yesterday's critique was the counter-critique that BagNews "failed to contact" Mr. Pellegrin in advance or "give him the chance to reply." I welcome the chance to clarify a fundamental misperception people make about the role and practice of BagNews relative to news photography.
Continue ReadingWhat happens when a World Press Photo and Picture of the Year International award-winning photograph wasn’t taken where it was claimed to be taken and when the subject of the photo isn’t who the photographer says he is?
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to the processing of a photo, our concern is primarily the motive and the aesthetic, political and historical effect of the result.
Continue ReadingExpect more photos of politicians clinging to that border like their very own security blanket … and the militarized zone that McCain insists it isn't.
Continue ReadingThis picture forces us to question whether there might somehow be a downslope to the prison industry's own life cycle.
Continue ReadingIsn't this "point of view" one of the factors that get these women killed in the first place?
Continue ReadingAs another moderate is driven to the sidelines, what we really deserve is a photo that illustrates the madness.
Continue ReadingAs one of our main themes here is the evolution of protest -- and the news galleries are also filled with Fashion Week here and Fashion Week there -- I was wondering about your take on these photos of Pussy Riot and Palestinian protesters.
Continue ReadingThe award does not do itself any favors by taking a more stereotyped view of the underside of America.
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