Among photography's many virtues, it slows the world down, indeed, it stops the world in ways that normal sight is often hard pressed to do—at 1/800th of a second, for example—inviting us not just to look at the world around us, but to see it, sometimes with fresh eyes.
Continue ReadingIs there any instance where a Hitler or a bin Laden would evoke more insight than stigmatization in such a format?
Continue ReadingIn the next weeks and months leading up to Sochi, there is going to be a flood of images, and I imagine, visual provocations pushing back on Russia's primitive stance on homosexuality.
Continue ReadingCan you imagine the pain and embarrassment of that monumental shame on Seymour Avenue becoming ceremonial for a day?
Continue ReadingOf course, it's a sexual innuendo, but it's perfect the way it's that twisted.
Continue ReadingI'm not sure what's more terrifying. Is it TEPCO's latest crisis, or the relative lack of international attention, urgency ... and explanatory imagery?
Continue ReadingI awoke late that afternoon to find everyone begging to see pictures of Scott’s bloody hand. I could not fault them for their obsession. This is what my photographs are about, fetishizing violence.
Continue ReadingIt might be Bezos' deal, not Amazon's, but this still has Web 2.0 written all over it.
Continue ReadingThe decision to close that many embassies wasn't trivial. What I was curious about is whether the visual media might actually extend itself beyond stereotyping, fear mongering or sensationalizing to really elaborate the threat.
Continue ReadingIn contrast to the near-daily stream of ingenious protest messaging, the primary audience for this green scrawl was primarily the National Park Service or DC police. ...
Continue ReadingBeing that the Atlantic Wire is the bomb, and last Thursday a story about the feds raiding a house in Suffolk County, New York over a Google search went completely viral, we were wondering what you thought of this photo and layout.
Continue ReadingThe importance of man’s oldest technology—language—is all but ignored in modern military training. And yet, military conquest and empire building has always been connected to language.
Continue ReadingPerhaps the strangest plot twist of the Egyptian overthrow is the public erasure of President Morsi -- the physical version, that is. Otherwise, Morsi's presence has been ubiquitous.
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