If this bus was a violation of the "no-campaigning during voting" rules, it didn't matter.
Continue ReadingA powerful effect of the installation, intentional or not, is to pique our curiosity as to how, and how much, people do or don't engage with the imagery.
Continue ReadingWhat I’m wondering is, why was this photo so popular and in what way does it relate to the story?
Continue ReadingIs the objectification of women so entrenched in our culture and media that it's inescapable, even in the visual reporting of this extraordinarily troubling story?
Continue ReadingIf there is cheering and yelling at events like this, my sense is that most Egyptians are quietly resigned. It’s so predictable from here out. Egyptians have lost their voice again.
Continue ReadingThe natural recipient of awe, it's that rare to see the Pope ceding this much power to anything.
Continue ReadingWhat I admire about these photos by Getty’s Nicholas Kamm is how fully they capture and balance both themes.
Continue ReadingDo you know what I liked best about this Sao Paolo graffiti art that went viral this week?
Continue ReadingIt's interesting to see this group take photojournalism, as a provocative exercise, to the streets. I just can't tell if this photo has their back or not.
Continue ReadingWhat’s disturbing is when objects -- especially those of deep emotional and moral value -- become the framing elements for political equivocation.
Continue ReadingIf you didn't know the context, you wouldn't know these men were inmates or that the images had anything to do with the penal system.
Continue ReadingIn this longread and photojournal for BagNews Originals, photographer James Whitlow Delano details the impact of multinational logging and palm oil operations on the people and rainforest of Cameroon.
Continue ReadingHere comes the World Cup -- and the effort by Western visual media to create a simultaneously vital and salable picture of the Brazilian social and political landscape.
Continue ReadingWhat is curious about Cecily McMillan's ordeal is that, in spite of the mountain of critical fragments that were captured and published, the visuals have failed to focus the public mind around a smoking gun.
Continue ReadingIf her father was revered for concentrating America on the moon, cultivating a national optimism out of a technological and patriotic savvy, what a long fall we've had.
Continue ReadingWhat the girls represented was a blind spot -- active evidence that the web isn't, in fact, omniscient, and our digital experience -- as much as it feels like the essence of inclusivity -- is overwhelmingly exclusive and exclusionary.
Continue ReadingIn producing this just-under 12 minute video, ReasonTV draws on quotes from BagNews to illustrate how thoroughly the White House controls Obama's visual image.
Continue ReadingWhat's mainly an issue here is how media makes all of us flies on the wall without causing us to think about how we got in the room in the first place.
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