This week, our Chatting the Pictures webcast looks at a migrant detention camp in El Paso, Robert Mueller in front of the White House, and Netanyahu mutating.
Continue ReadingThis week, our social feeds focused on post-Mueller anxiety, more personality politics, and images legitimizing and delegitimizing.
Continue ReadingThe reason I’m writing this is because the photos of Trump and reporters on the South Lawn have become flat out bizarre lately.
Continue ReadingChristchurch and the resolve in mourning. Young eco activists speaking with their feet, and their posters. That was our visual focus this week.
Continue ReadingThis week, our Chatting the Pictures webcast looks at a viral photo of the New Zealand Prime Minister, a young climate activist, and an indefensible Midwest flood photo.
Continue ReadingThe expression of grief is so intense, I cannot forget it. At the same, however, I feel challenged looking at the photo as a westerner.
Continue ReadingThis week, our Chatting the Pictures webcast looks at the college entrance scandal; the Venezuelan blackout; and Vanity Fair’s Beto 2020 announcement cover by Annie Leibovitz.
Continue ReadingThe necklace stunt reminds us that guns, masculinity, and domination hang together as part of a hard right political style.
Continue ReadingThe lie has been disproven. But what is missing from the bridge story is the role the US and USAID played in stoking this incident in the first place.
Continue ReadingA viral picture of singer R. Kelly gesticulating during an interview with CBS’s Gayle King is one of those sensational internet nuggets that feels tailor made for the cultural moment. Loaded with subtexts of gender, race, and media representation, it took less than a day for the photo to...
Continue ReadingOn the latest Chatting the Pictures, Michael and Cara look at three winners from the University of Missouri's Pictures of the Year, International, photojournalism awards.
Continue ReadingThis week, our Chatting the Pictures webcast looks at the sad Trump-Kim summit, Michael Cohen’s Trump check, and Billy Porter’s Oscar gown.
Continue ReadingTrump, Kim, Cohen. It’s been a great week for pictures that bring us close to the larger than life protagonists on the political stage.
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