Egypt vs. Morsi: What Pics are Trending, and Why
Surface-to-air muscle flexing meets "e-tagging." Photos of citizen demonstrators flashing laser pointers at Egyptian military helicopters.
Continue ReadingObama in South Africa: Political and Media Disconnect
If anything, we need to understand these protest images in S. Africa more in terms of current and similar photos from Brazil and Turkey. The public, in other words, is more sensitive these days to when they're being patronized.
Continue ReadingBert and Ernie Gay (and Illustrators DOA) in Cutest Fail of Historic Week
It's a thoroughly creative combination like this which makes fireworks go off in the brain. In this case though, the winner is primarily the illustrator for hitting it out of the park for cleverness and cuteness, not the magazine for framing the movement or the Supreme's decision in any...
Continue ReadingLeica Video Ad: War Photography Like it Was Yesterday
War is eternal and war photography is (still) the bastion of virile men destined for death.
Continue ReadingWendy Davis and the Texas Abortion Filibuster – Lasting Images
As for Wendy Davis and the filibuster, the visuals from the drama in the Texas State Legislature the other night represent a wellspring.
Continue ReadingThe SCOTUS Same-Sex Marriage Rulings: Closure
That's not just what the Court delivered, it's what the images speak to.
Continue ReadingBrazil and Turkey: If it Bleeds, it Leads
What I can say is that, in spite of the violent spasms on the streets, it would be shortsighted to simply lump Rousseff and Erdogan, Brazil and Turkey into the same tear gas canister.
Continue ReadingDeen's Savannah Kitchen: Lunch Boycott or Still Frying High?
Here's something you don't see every day. Two news stories describing the same scene in the same place, both backed up with photos, but attesting to something completely opposite.
Continue ReadingSingapore: Eco Apocalypse Pics of the Week
These are two of the newswire photos from the intense pollution in Singapore capturing the "haves" doing their usual "while Rome burns."
Continue ReadingPhotojournalism and Culture as Famously Banal: Remembering James Gandolfini
What I found hollow and gnawing (like a president had died, or at least a Michael Jackson) was the shock and sentiment on local radio and television over the passing of the actor who played Tony Soprano.
Continue ReadingStriking Protest Images from Brasilia’s National Congress: the People on Top For a Change?
How meaningful is it to see the bodies of protesters against the skin of this iconic structure? Is it just fanciful or cool, or can we take it as citizens in these developing countries acquiring a truly larger profile?
Continue ReadingProtest, Suicide, Guns & Terrorism: All The Fashion
The corporate state, by way of its Mad Men and women, has the perfect answer for populist discontent or unprofitable social ills that start bucking for attention: appropriate and glamorize.
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You Too Can Become an Insta-War Photographer in Syria – GRAPHIC
This piece glorifies the "Bevis and Butthead" idea that any couple of fools can have a harrowing experience like this and live to (sell it to VICE and) tell the world about it.
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Love Amidst the Tear Gas
After the hubbub over "Riot Kiss," I'm not sure how to account for this.
Continue ReadingLook3 Festival: Carrie Mae Weems
As alluring as that photo above from the Kitchen Table series is -- all the intimacy taking place in that gaze between she and us -- what most caught my attention (as much because it came and went so quickly) was this image Weems created as part of her...
Continue ReadingThe Santa Monica School Rampage: Post-Newtown, Been There, Done That?
The media treatment of the shooting on Friday at Santa Monica College was mostly noteworthy for its mundanity.
Continue ReadingIssues With Corporate Responsibility? Celebritize!
Talk about a disconnect between words and pictures. I thought I was looking at photos from the Academy Awards or the Grammys – not celebrity wallpaper from the otherwise troubled Walmart annual meeting in Fayetteville.
Continue ReadingEdward Snowden the Invisible
how is it possible that almost three full internet days have gone by without a single photo of Snowden showing up online (outside of the images captured by the Guardian in a Hong Kong hotel room)?
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