War is far more than battle, from the extensive organization that is required to project power and hold territory, to the thousand ways that it disrupts, distorts, corrupts, and shatters entire worlds.
Continue ReadingI am partly posting Kanye’s shaming of the celebrity-crazed public and his indictment of mobile photography as an example of how much pictures can take on a life of their own.
Continue ReadingThe hostility of anti-Muslim protesters on the seventh annual Texas Muslim Capitol Day pales in comparison to the recognition and appreciation of the different cultural and religious communities among us.
Continue ReadingDon't worry yourself what's bubbling beyond the tarp?
Continue ReadingWhatever the reasons for the quiet, America's reengagement in Iraq is primarily significant for the lack of attention.
Continue ReadingIf the 2015 Oscars expose a diversity problem with western cultural exporting, then the selection by POY doubles down on the indictment.
Continue ReadingWhat I find so powerful is how much Alexey Furman's photo from Ukraine manages to capture and express war as an act of domestic violence.
Continue ReadingWhat's brilliant is the way the photo, on the surface a textbook example of political celebrity, also taps into America's racial polarization.
Continue ReadingWhat is it about this photo of Sub-Saharan migrants high up a pole in Spain’s border town of Melilla that earned a POY award?
Continue ReadingAnd when in our lifetimes have we been made aware the military has been deployed to save lives?
Continue ReadingIn this day and age, when an image could as easily have been pulled off a civil defense drone or a surveillance camera, we also register that.
Continue ReadingSure, the cops got their girl. But for goodness' sake, is a riot police scrum supposed to look so glamorous?
Continue ReadingDespite the photo’s potential utility, however, it also raises important questions about the ways in which well-meaning outsiders and journalists depict the problem of human trafficking.
Continue ReadingI doubt the group expected a photo this effective, even if Femen protesters are consistently “manhandled” by police.
Continue ReadingThe picture of “Jon and Alex” seems to also be part of an emerging trend among the winning photographs of recent years: a cinematic aesthetics that combines artistic compositions with invitation to storytelling.
Continue ReadingIt could have landed on his shoe. It could have bounced and landed on that other guy's straw hat. But, it didn't.
Continue ReadingPerhaps the noirish quality serves as a buffer but this photo is at least as tense as it is tender.
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