Chatting the Pictures: Beyond Cute
We explain how this Chinese panda at the National Zoo in Washington both offers lessons in photo editing and captures a post-pandemic mood.
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Chatting the Pictures: The “Old Timey” Look of the Second Mars Touch Down
As always, NASA plays the excitement to the hilt. And the first image from Perseverance plays it both forward and backward in time.
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The Coronoavirus and the World Atilt
Suddenly, the media is filled with images that situate the coronavirus into the most well-known backgrounds. This example from Pisa is striking.⠀
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“Bernie’s Warren Problem” Really Media’s Gender Problem
The photo of Warren on the Edmund Pettus Bridge helps explain why, on the eve of Super Tuesday, everyone was talking about the old white guys.
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Toxic Nationalism: The Tomb of the Unborn Soldier
The point was to rally the base. But by wrapping the American flag around an “unborn soldier,” the photo infuriated the right and the left.
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Make America Meme: Why Melania Trump Birthday Photo was a Coup for the White House
More than pointed critiques, these memes tend to offer the Trump administration greater drama and even unwitting sympathy.
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Between Jerusalem, Gaza and the Media: The Tear Gas Spectacular
What stokes the media as effectively as it fuels insurgency and state power--especially in the Trump era? Simply put, it's the fireworks.
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Cruel Looking: From Puerto Rico, and Beyond
Showing the bodies of others—be they Puerto Rican children or British Muslims—and stripping them of dignity in full view: this is cruel looking. Knowing it is wrong is part of the plan.
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Pop Goes Newsweek: Sexual Harassment Cover Gone Wrong
The Newsweek cover perfectly illustrates the juvenile, adolescent male snickerings that have floated around locker rooms, golf courses and topless bars for years.
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Compounding the Weinstein Outrage: How to Visually Cover Sexual Assault
Lurid details and graphic accounts in the Weinstein case do not compensate for the simple fact: there is no adequate imagery to testify to sexual assault.
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The Visual Politics of Colin Kaepernick
After Donald Trump's ugly outburst about athletes who "take the knee," it seemed time to look at the man our president was alluding to.
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So, Who WAS Kellyanne Taking That Couch Gate Photo For??
Even as Trump's first 100 days have been analyzed into oblivion, this Couch Gate question is still floating around out there.
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Posing the Dead with their Vices: Media Fascination a Matter of Race?
These photographs quickly turn from mementos into scenes in which national audiences view the short, sordid lives of others.
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Beyond Matt Black’s Poverty Percentages
If you simply relate to Black’s poverty or class imagery in the broad brush, it’s a prolific view. But, in most every frame, the deeper power and reward is that further question or allegation.
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A Demanding Photo from Lynn Johnson’s National Geographic Cannabis Feature
What's powerful about the photo is how it functions as testimony.
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Ode to Light: Making Street Photography in a Cynical Age — by Amy Touchette
I know that if I’m to continue making photographs of the general public, I need to be aware of the context in which we live. I’m ready to explain to people that they are beautiful, that they are unique, and that they are worthy of being recognized, even if...
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Lynsey Addario and that Audi Commercial: Reframing the War Photographer — (Postscript Added)
My first and second thoughts on a set of commercials featuring a famous war photographer.
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Stacy Kranitz: The Spectacle of Violence (GRAPHIC)
I awoke late that afternoon to find everyone begging to see pictures of Scott’s bloody hand. I could not fault them for their obsession. This is what my photographs are about, fetishizing violence.
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