When it comes to candid images of the upper and the upper-upper classes, a secret shame of the visual media is that it self-censors.
Continue ReadingWhat's powerful about the photo is how it functions as testimony.
Continue ReadingHillary's Iowa campaign photos so far have demonstrated the ultimate concern, engagement and compassion. And that’s the problem.
Continue ReadingWar is a force that gives us meaning.
Continue ReadingI, for one (maybe, the only one), think that the V in VF actually matters. Or, that there’s something weird in the culture when the exhibition of vanity is so equated to empowerment.
Continue ReadingIt cautions us not to take pictures at face value or to assume that what's in a frame is necessarily that consistent with what's happening just outside of it.
Continue ReadingTrolling the visual flotsam and jetsam better known as the nascent Democratic 2016 presidential campaign, two different photos floated to the surface.
Continue ReadingThe parallel of the American West and the eradication of the “Native Americans” with the Israeli desert and the trials of the Palestinians is mind bending.
Continue ReadingWith Iraq teetering again and threatening to unspool, and with the Taliban in Afghanistan reasserting itself in our wake, what’s there to make of these treks?
Continue ReadingIf we agree that war is pathological, this image from an International Gay Rodeo Association event in Little Rock this week could be seen to radically challenge the disease.
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to the key issues of our time, how much does photography inform and how much does it entertain?
Continue ReadingAfter you've clicked through this fifteen photo slideshow introducing us to Denver pot smokers, can you tell me if you notice anything off about it?
Continue ReadingIf perfectly nice in their display of youth, layer and pattern, what’s more illustrative is the way fresh blooms channel the allure of more exquisite flowers.
Continue ReadingIf perfectly nice in their display of youth, layer and pattern, what’s more illustrative is the way fresh blooms channel the allure of more exquisite flowers.
Continue ReadingOn April 21st of last year, the media offered us at least three police assault missions, two in Ferguson and the other in Denver. And not one required calling out the army.
Continue ReadingRed carpet as metaphor.
Continue ReadingI was struck by these portraits by photographers for Reuters, AP and AFP/Getty. Along with their existing captions is a second one I've volunteered to think about how these photos are actually consumed.
Continue ReadingAfter all the highly-publicized incidents of police brutality and racial profiling in New York and around the country, what's as much under the microscope here are these militarized police departments.
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