St. Patrick's Day: Missed Metaphors?
I in no way mean any disrespect to fire fighters or to those "first responders" who lost their lives on 9/11. That said, it's hard for me to gather the logic of this photo.
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Steubenville and Madhya Pradesh: Rape, Media and the Visual Politics of Victimhood
It seems the case there is too much shame and degradation around rape to present a face to the world. So women are empowered to report and expect arrests, but the media has only a few ways to put a face on it.
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CPAC 2013: Props and Crutches
Given the widely noted fractures in the GOP, it's understandable that this year's conservative CPAC shindig would feature so many different props, verbal assists and visual aids.
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Your Turn: Iraq War + 10 (Seizures Palace)
This coming Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War.
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Juxtaposition of the Week: The Sacred and the Profane
Sistine Chapel's sulphur/coal tar combination for the cause.
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Tracking Pope Francis: Rockin' the Modest
Dear Pope Francis. Congrats, you're off to a flying start.
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Powerful Images from the Senate Armed Services "Military Sexual Assault" Hearing
What a landmark day, and a powerful group of photos from the Senate Armed Services Committee's Personnel Subcommittee hearing yesterday on Military Sexual Assault. We share our thoughts on a number of the images from the encounter.
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Tracking Pope Francis: Bergoglio – Kirchner
I'm keen for the opportunity of track the early visual coverage of the new Argentine Pope, appreciating how the power of imagery, celebrity and first impressions all converge around Jorge Bergoglio.
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Getting Pinked: Arizona (Still) Using "Emasculation Jail" in Anti-Immigration Fight
Getty photographer John Moore is thoroughly right to call out the tactic of humiliation in the treatment of undocumented immigrant detainees in Phoenix. What's even more troubling, however, is that this is not a new story.
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The Japan Quake Anniversary and the "Ownership" of Commemoration
Looking at the photos from the second anniversary of the Japanese quake and tsunami yesterday, I couldn't help think about the visual politics of commemoration.
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Yuri Kozyrev from Afghanistan: The U.S. Fade
I'm certainly curious how that tonal strategy relates to America's previously burning patriotic and nationalistic fires.
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Deploying Drones in the Homeland …and the Biggest Fear's the Budget?
Tailoring the story toward economics, the edit banks hard around the militarization and instead takes dead aim at budget strife.
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Your Turn: Break In This Area
To the extent newswire photography is embracing aesthetics and style, this is quite an entry.
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Just al-Qaeda
What I like about this photo is how simply it demythologizes al-Qaida.
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Feeling Railroaded by Guns, Survivalists, Domestic Terror?
With gun control facing an uphill battle in Congress and the NYT running a feature today about more coziness between the gun lobby and Congress, I was thinking about the meaning of this newswire survivalist photo.
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Photos: Life Falling Through the Cracks
We want to believe we can control our destiny even if we're constantly reminded that nature holds the upper hand.
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