Mashup of the Day: Hands Up, Don’t Shoot
Maybe it’s relevant for drawing together the two biggest visual stories in the news stream right now — both involving blacks at risk.
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A Simple News Photo from Hong Kong Calls out the Economics
n this age of Citizens United, oligarchy, marauding socialist market economies and free markets aligned with the value of "all-for-one," when do you ever see a protest photo that captures and illustrates the enterprise system itself — as opposed to the crackdown in the streets in defense of that...
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And We'll Get Back to Those Slain Black Youths Right After Baseball
It’s a troubling commentary on our cultural and media priorities that the civil rights story and the playoff hoopla have been so seamlessly grafted.
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Benedicte Kurzen's Complex and Mysterious Photo from Ebola-Stricken Monrovia
This is one of the richest, most curious and most suggestive editorial photos I've seen in a while. I'm interested in your thoughts.
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Media-Wise, Could Everyday Africa Change Everything?
If Everyday Africa and the rest of the "Everyday" sites can maintain their momentum, a revolution is coming to photojournalism and visual news.
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Hong Kong: He Says Umbrella Revolution, She Says Post-it Note
If the umbrella is a more functional item, the Post-It note is more reflective of the word, the voice, a multiplicity of voices -- and social in the old fashioned way.
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Soul Searching Photos Replace “Shock and Awe” as Defense Industry Leads Us into Next Iraq War
As we roll almost mutely into another war, there is no end of high-priced hardware once more ready to burn.
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Hindsight and News Photography: On a Bio-Hazardous Dallas Balcony
Unfortunately, one thing news photography is good at is second-guessing, especially when it comes to homeland security.
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Does Up-and-Coming Model With Unusual Skin Condition Take Us Beyond Diversity?
How much is Ms. Brown-Young's condition, as a beauty signature, more singularly about "the other?"
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Sensational Ebola Pictures: Those Aren't Astronauts
Its been too easy in the West to either ignore the Ebola pictures, or pull up a chair for the horror show.
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Climate Change: Finally Matter-of-Fact?
I wonder if we’re approaching a whole new level of acknowledgment and realism surrounding climate change.
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Tweeting the Baby: In 2 Pix, the Clinton Script for 2016
The picture on Hillary's feed has a complete campaign vibe -- formal down to the pearls.
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"Hands Up, Don't Shoot," Hong Kong Edition
From the photos I've seen, the youth in Hong Kong are deploying the gesture in a less complicated way.
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Photoville: War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things
Wars may be easy to get into (and easy to suppose as tactically and emotionally limited) but then the stains just keep spreading.
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Photoville 2014: Matt Black and California's Dust Bowl
Although the disjunction is not usually this surreal, in this image from 2001, Matt seems to almost pay homage to Hitchcock.
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Weaponizing the Burka
In this case, the extreme aggression is completely flipped through the language — repurposing a highly specific portrait as an act of character assassination.
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Mother Earth Isn't White … and Other Climate Change Protest Pics That Caught Our Eye
...Or, enough sightseeing, time to do something.
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Photoville 14: In Gezi Park, and in Space
These photos were taken in Gezi Park in Istanbul in 2013. I wanted you to see them for the way the exhibit translates them into space.
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