As a sometimes series, we're interested in how much a particular photo has informational value...
Continue ReadingWhat’s impressive about the photo is how it has both a pre- and post-9/11 meaning.
Continue ReadingFitting of perhaps the most (visually and politically) polarizing news event I can remember, the parting imagery from Israel and Gaza could not be stranger and more cutting.
Continue ReadingLet's call it "the drone factor."
Continue ReadingSpeaking for myself, I can hardly remember a news photo of a woman in a chador laying injured, let alone lying down.
Continue ReadingWhile media consumers are bombarded daily with the most gut wrenching images of dead and injured Palestinians, especially children, the battle rages as to whether the images represent atrocities or collateral damage and the use of human shields.
Continue ReadingBut, when the coverage starts to pivot on undocumented immigrants and their identification as glorified panhandlers, the story and the photo assume a different inflection.
Continue ReadingThis photo just feels so wrong to me right now.
Continue ReadingWhat does it even mean to do justice to the soul-crushing photos pouring out of Gaza and Israel these past three weeks? And then where does balance come into it?
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