It cautions us not to take pictures at face value or to assume that what's in a frame is necessarily that consistent with what's happening just outside of it.
Continue ReadingTrolling the visual flotsam and jetsam better known as the nascent Democratic 2016 presidential campaign, two different photos floated to the surface.
Continue ReadingThe parallel of the American West and the eradication of the “Native Americans” with the Israeli desert and the trials of the Palestinians is mind bending.
Continue ReadingMen would do well to consider women’s perspectives more often—not just when there is a physical reminder that your literal view on the world is affected by your gender.
Continue ReadingWith Iraq teetering again and threatening to unspool, and with the Taliban in Afghanistan reasserting itself in our wake, what’s there to make of these treks?
Continue ReadingIf we agree that war is pathological, this image from an International Gay Rodeo Association event in Little Rock this week could be seen to radically challenge the disease.
Continue ReadingI worry that newswire photographs during humanitarian crises have a way of exposing their subjects to a not-so-subtle mode of international brow-beating.
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to the key issues of our time, how much does photography inform and how much does it entertain?
Continue ReadingAfter you've clicked through this fifteen photo slideshow introducing us to Denver pot smokers, can you tell me if you notice anything off about it?
Continue ReadingIf perfectly nice in their display of youth, layer and pattern, what’s more illustrative is the way fresh blooms channel the allure of more exquisite flowers.
Continue ReadingIf perfectly nice in their display of youth, layer and pattern, what’s more illustrative is the way fresh blooms channel the allure of more exquisite flowers.
Continue ReadingOn April 21st of last year, the media offered us at least three police assault missions, two in Ferguson and the other in Denver. And not one required calling out the army.
Continue ReadingRed carpet as metaphor.
Continue ReadingIt's as if this photograph catches humanity admiring its own awesome powers of creation.
Continue ReadingI was struck by these portraits by photographers for Reuters, AP and AFP/Getty. Along with their existing captions is a second one I've volunteered to think about how these photos are actually consumed.
Continue ReadingAfter all the highly-publicized incidents of police brutality and racial profiling in New York and around the country, what's as much under the microscope here are these militarized police departments.
Continue ReadingThe photo captures the bare life of the human subject in migration; the emblematic equipment of global transportation and a powerful but harsh global economy that permeates everyday life.
Continue ReadingThis show of muscle is reminiscent of the American invasion of Iraq -- as supplemented by the Blackwater group.
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