While framed as “missing-in-action,” Kamala Harris tackles the hardest jobs and is everywhere fighting for social justice.
Continue ReadingWe're thrilled to introduce a new newsletter feature: "Pictures Worth Noting." Today's focus ranges from climate, to politics, to the border.
Continue ReadingRecent court losses are eroding Trump's ability to dominate the photo coverage of his legal troubles. Expect his control of the narrative to weaken as the damage sets in.
Continue ReadingThe Special Counsel’s questioning of Biden's cognitive abilities has unleashed a raft of negative imagery. The media's use of undermining photos risks biasing public perceptions and spreading ageist stereotypes. It's crucial to present more balanced visuals.
Continue ReadingPhilip Perdue examines Jerusalem news images after the Oct. 7 attack, showing how camera angles shape views and have moral consequences.
Continue ReadingWendy Kozol looks at how Nolan Trowe's images from a wheelchair provide a unique vantage of disabled activists in the halls of Congress.
Continue ReadingClimate activists have been otracized and left morally burdened by the lack of mass, top down acknowledgement of global heating.
Continue ReadingThe treatment of Trump's mug shot is vital to consider, given the potential of the George conspiracy case to reshape his public identity.
Continue ReadingBarbie has become the summer's leading political symbol. Leslie Hahner on that astronaut portrait and Barbie’s projection in political space.
Continue ReadingThis photo of David Hume Kennerly, taken in Vietnam, makes a basic yet essential point about media integrity and the reportage from Ukraine.
Continue Reading2021 represented a climate change tipping point. In recounting key visual markers, we call out two images from the Dixie Fire.
Continue Reading2021 was a climate tipping point. And among the catastrophes, this blow from Hurricane Ida seemed to speak to a larger fate.
Continue ReadingSummer 2021 was a tipping point. Fires, floods, heat waves and hurricanes scaled up, as did the mass recognition of climate change as an existential crisis. As part of that recognition, many brilliant, symbolically-laden pictures crystallized the moment.
Continue ReadingSeen as wildly provocative on social media, photos of Taliban fighters in the Norwegian Embassy after the fall of Kabul say as much about visual bias.
Continue ReadingVaccination reluctance in these small Appalachian towns is less a matter of politics or social responsibility than a complex conflict with faith.
Continue ReadingBeauty and subtlety distracts from the reality of asylum seekers in this news photos from the US/Mexico border.
Continue ReadingThese Instagram photos of Colombian news photographer Luis Robayo speak to the all-consuming challenge of covering protests today.
Continue ReadingWe rarely discuss it this formally, but our analysis of important news photos always considers the relationship between figure and ground.
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