James Whitlow Delano – First Dispatch: Return to the Rainforest
Over the months ahead, I want to make some sense about how a long-term project on the needless destruction of the equatorial rainforest came to be an obsession and how I have attempted to visually portray this form of daylight robbery.
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Closing Act: The Bangladesh Miracle
Whereas we all want to believe that the images of the previous eighteen days really matter, I'm afraid that the American media consumer is so tied to the warp speed of the news cycle that those hopes might already be gone with the wind.
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Modernism: Past the Dynasty and the Mad Men
Individuals still have their preferences, of course, but modernism is now a period style rather than a dynastic order.
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The Downloadable Gun
It looks like a disassembled staple gun. Benign. Until you look at the videos.
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Gitmo Pics They Felt You Kinda Oughta See: "Internal Nourishment Preparation"
Torturing a man for information, or out of sadism or to keep him alive, is still torture.
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Cleveland: An American Hero
The man who freed the three Ohio women from his neighbor's house has become a sensation on the internet, mostly so that people can laugh at him.
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Dying for Brands: Among the Deep Affronts of the Bangladesh Factory Collapse (GRAPHIC)
What is particularly tragic is how photos of name Western brands pulled from the Bangladesh factory collapse relate to the image below.
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Burning Issues in California: All in One Frame
It's certainly one of the more simple and eloquent newswire photos I've seen in a while the way it juxtaposes two very large but visually separate politically-charged issues.
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Welcome to the New BagNews Originals
We want to welcome you to the relaunch of BagNews Originals, our original photojournalism section.
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Jon Lowenstein on the South Side: Shots Fired
I hope to use this space on BagNews Originals as a way to explore the feelings, thoughts and daily realities of living here in a community that is seen in such a fiercely negative light.
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Photo Update/NRA Annual Meeting '13: Guns in the Hands of Babes
Looking at the Reuters' edit, at least one visual story line is coming through strong and clear from the NRA's annual meeting in Houston.
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Sanford and Sons: Meet the Mistress
Perhaps the saddest political images I've seen this year.
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Marathon Terror Memorials
With loss and memory becoming so formalized now, it seems like each catastrophe or attack necessarily becomes branded -- to cities, to specific locales, and also to symbols or events they most logically refer to.
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Your Turn: World Trade Center Relaunch
Given the history, I was attracted to a number of different versions of the Trade Center spire being hoisted to the top of the new building.
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Seattle May Day Riot Commandos: What Looks Different
What Richard Reid did for the sneaker, it looks like the Tsarnaev brothers have done for the backpack.
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9/11: Belated Crime Scene
Is it just me, or do others think investigating just an old airplane part found blocks from Ground Zero really demands clothing that prevents contamination?
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Picture of Tamerlan Tsarnaev Surfaces as Islamic Soldier?
If you weren't paying close attention, you might first think this photo circulating today shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as a Chechen jihadist.
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Syria Serves Up Rebel "Terrorists" to Western Journalists. Q is: How to Shoot Them?
I wonder if it what we had on the NYT front page last Thursday was a standoff between heavy-handed state propaganda and high-level photojournalism.
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