Waiting for Peace to Arrive at the Syrian Bus Stop
Whatever the back story, the moral is the same: warfare demands exceptional resilience and inventiveness to survive, and people respond in kind. ...Which is why the scene is heartbreaking.
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Selfie of the Week — Crossing the Starting Line First
To the extent the selfie is equated with self-absorption, this one goes the extra mile.
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The Drought Doesn't Discriminate by Class or Ethnicity: Balazs Gardi in the Central Valley
After all the sensational and stereotyped coverage of the immigration issue, Gardi's photos parse Mother Nature from Beltway nature.
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Telling Moments From the Video of the White S. Carolina Police Officer Murdering a Black Man
What most stands out for me is Slager checking Scott for a pulse after the second officer just checked for one.
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On Damon Winter's "Divided" Photos of California's Water Crisis
The question is: how much is the photo more static and dread-laden, and how much is it more "fluid"?
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Iran Portraits in the NY Times; "Kissing Kerry" on the Telly in Social Media
What continues to fascinate, looking at major news stories, is the relationship between professional photojournalism and its barefoot cousin, the public Twitter, Instagram or Facebook picture.
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Why all the Photos of People Taking Photos, Especially When Heavy Things Are Going Down?
The utter ubiquity of camera phones, portable screens as well as digital circulation has given citizen spectators a whole new way of registering their voice—or is it their gaze?
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Indiana's March Madness
This odd notion that we can bracket our politics from the wide world of sports is getting harder and harder to embrace.
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"What's Up" at The Dallas Museum of Art: Sculpture Imitates Life?
With everything in our increasingly technological, innovative and cataclysmic world as fodder for the camera, tell me it's not getting harder to make sense of what's sticking out anymore.
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Loaves and Fishes
It's not that this photograph or this scene from Gaza is unique at all. What so impactful is its resonance this Holy Week, today being Good Friday.
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Sarah Stacke: Proof of Existence in Manenberg
When I see Ashwin at home at last surrounded by family and friends who are grieving, laughing, comforting –– all the emotions that one navigates with the pain of loss –– a sliver of peace is unexpectedly delivered.
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