Capturing the domestic anxiety of the civil war.
Continue ReadingOn the brink of a government shutdown, the next act of a fractured Congress, and the rise of a great right hope, it's not like these aren't perfect days for religious visual metaphors.
Continue ReadingOf course, in the contemporary media landscape, being old is a far greater crime for women than is being inauthentic.
Continue ReadingNow that the shooting phase is over, we enter the spin room.
Continue ReadingFirst pass, I was not just struck by the emptiness – or, the quiet here, but I was concerned by it.
Continue ReadingAnother way to understand the danger here has to do with infusing horrific news images with irony.
Continue ReadingConsider why Brand chose to riff on the link between the Nazi's and "an irrelevant menswear supplier." And absorb his admonition to trust in yourself and those around you to try and get your feel back.
Continue ReadingWhy is Francis "the coolest Pope ever?" Because, at least so far, the actions speak for themselves.
Continue ReadingBecause our goal is to promote visual and media literacy, The Atlantic's summary of these photos is something to take note of.
Continue ReadingSo my question is: was this photo cropped entirely for effect? for simplicity sake? or, because the nonchalance of the soldiers would have been like a second napalm hit?
Continue ReadingToday, Twitter is much more of a gawking and tabloid territory, the happenstance procurement of a slice of trauma or celebrity functions as much or more like a trophy, the posting and engagement less an act of witnessing than voyeurism.
Continue ReadingThis BagNews Salon, to be held at the 2013 Photoville photo festival in Brooklyn, examines eight photos that have either been the subject of debate or relate to current issues surrounding the practice of photojournalism.
Continue ReadingSo the photos from Syria the past year or so have been a little weighted toward Aleppo and, recently, the Damascus suburb of Gouta. On that diet, of course, one would only think that apocalypse reigns.
Continue ReadingHere was a perfect opportunity to show us a women or multiple women journalists, for goddsakes, actually covering the war in Syria -- though I understand it might have taken about a minute to find one.
Continue ReadingSeems you can't look over your shoulder, in the rear-view mirror or in the reflection of a puddle without seeing some reminder, allusion, suggestion (thought broadcast?) about the surveillance and security state.
Continue ReadingMy question is, why did this photo stand out so powerfully from the larger edit of 10-year-old Issa working in a Syrian rebel weapons factory?
Continue ReadingI would say that these images represent the inclination, on the part of the West, to paint every faction in Syria with a broad bloody brush.
Continue ReadingGood hack and lensman that I am, I fight for access to restricted areas, bemused that the young men and women in uniforms who see journalists as intrusive adversaries have no idea that, the dozen years back, I was here too.
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