Some Random Thoughts on Charles Ommanney's Americans with Guns
At this point, they only strap on the babies to tweak the Liberals.
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MA370: Still Haunting
All it takes is the prompt it has something to do with MA370 and the mind starts going.
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Instagram Mining: whitehouse meets popefrancis
With world leaders and heads of state now standard fixtures on Instagram, I was curious about your take on each's version of the Obama-Pope, Pope-Obama meet up.
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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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The Dysfunctional Guitar: More on the Reuters Syria Photo Controversy
In this atmosphere of doubt, it's worthwhile to consider these images involving the presence of this musical instrument in multiple images. What really convinced me to share them publicly, though, was the confusing and misdirected explanation I received from Reuters after having contacted them.
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Relative Vantage of the Day: FLOTUS at The Great Wall
“If there’s no press, that’s a demonstration. If there’s a lively press that gets what it needs, that’s a demonstration."
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Were the Reuters "Boy in a Syrian Bomb Factory" Photos Staged?
We hope that this post might contribute to a thoughtful, open and persistent examination about the truth behind this story as well as the issues surrounding how photos in conflict zones can be procured today.
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Aboard Malaysia Air Flight 370
If up to now, you only imagined the fated plane in your minds eye as a blip on a radar screen or even a murky fragment on a sea bottom somewhere, we’re now actually, incredibly on board.
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Archivin': When Obama Met Putin
With Russia suddenly vacuuming up real estate, we thought a little background was in order.
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Trial by Slide Show? On Lens, Molhem Barakat and the Reuters Scandal
It's troubling to think that the last word on Molhem's reputation might hinge on the slideshow, the visual association to a thickening scandal and a more nominal connection to suspect deeds.
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If You Can't Join 'Em, Outshoot 'Em: Dharapak, AP Take On White House Over Dalai Lama
What the administration doesn't seem to be considering is that the press, beyond the venting and the resentment, is going to raise its game.
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On that Photo from the Hope Wall at Kuala Lumpur International Airport
What is a face but a map, its own mystery.
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As Facebook Pics of Malaysia Air Passengers Land on Buzzfeed … Hijacked Twice?
What are the ethics of of high traffic news and infotainment websites using a person's Facebook image if that person was on an erased airliner? Is it just a case of, "well, you should have thought of that before you disappeared?"
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Winner of Last Week’s "Most Paranoid CIA-Feinstein News Photo" Contest
And the winner goes to Mark Wilson and Getty Images for the "cop with the arms crossed" photo. Clearly that expression catches the enforcement officer dead-to-rights surveilling the Senator.
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Random Acts of Photography … and Public Good
Whatever else happened on February 25th, there was someone in Vancouver who wasn’t working on branding, who wasn’t worried about others free-riding, who was willing to spend time and money and effort to improve the commons.
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On Ukraine, that Viral Kerry-Lavrov Photo and More Complex Feelings
From my perspective, I think this is a bold and honest photo for the White House to publish. I imagine the White House is confiding there is no way we can take this head on.
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Photo Op-date: Obama at the GAP
If the White House has been nothing but masterful, consistent and highly disciplined in its photo ops, Monsivais’s shot down the checkout counter pulls back the curtain on the stage set.
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A Meditation on the Crowdsourcing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Given our awesome connectivity and the enhanced visibility of just about every square inch, the online public search effort is a visual and technological angel mission. And yet...
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