The Surveillance Society: Show Me the Pictures
Certainly, the revelations of the past week have ramifications that will reverberate for some time along many moral and cultural channels. For photographers and photojournalism, it should be nothing short of a call to action.
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Turkey in a Whirl
On the surface, I see citizens honoring cultural tradition in the face of a government attempting to impose its will and ideological agenda.
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Icons, Memes and the Hair-Raising Turkish "Lady in Red"
Just to reiterate: the woman is clearly heroic, but not -- at least, in the frame that went viral -- because what is happening is so straight-forward to read. The power of the image may be primarily derived through political horror, but not without some ambiguity and curiosity as...
Continue ReadingThe Gorgeous TIME Ai WeiWei China Cover
Doesn't this artful expression represent, more than anything, how much the U.S. relationship with China is crying out for real craft and imagination?
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The Big Deal Surrounding Bradley Manning
What the number and (relative) size of the security detail suggests about the high-profile military prosecution.
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Justin Maxon Does Rahm, Chi-Town, Fairey
Is it possible the current mini-surge to turn Chicago into America's poster child for urban violence and disappointment has something to do with its renowned resident, and the HOPE balloon losing most of its helium?
Continue ReadingWhy I Like Guy Martin's Gezi Park Photos
The pictures are notable for what they're not. Not sensational. Not glorifying the violence. Could the photo world be approach a tipping point in terms of sensation, aesthetics and the combination?
Continue ReadingTIME Gitmo Photo Story: Tell Me You Didn't, Eugene
Given the military censorship and the heinous situation surrounding the ongoing mass hunger strike and force-feeding of prisoners, it's troubling this photo-story would just pass into the ether.
Continue ReadingUprising Pictures from Turkey: Going All In with the Gas
Tear gas has become an increasingly visible staple of domestic control. From the pictures distributed by newswire and social media though, these Turkish gassings seem to rise to a new level.
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Brazil: The Man
On it's face, it's a preview of the security being put in place for the World Cup and Olympics.
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Israel: Cue the Gas
Maybe what really sells a news photo these days is the sense one is looking at a movie still.
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A Photographer, A Fixer, the New York Times and Child Servitude in Haiti: A Story Gone Haywire, then Simply Gone
A post about child servitude in Haiti, deleted from the New York Times Lens Blog, serves as the basis for questions about the ethics of photojournalism, the practice of online journalism and the issues involved when the American media market trains a lens on ethical behavior in a country...
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Team Zimmerman's Trayvon Photos: Pictured from a Cell
More than anything, what his team broadcasts with the photos is that it wasn't a kid Zimmerman was paranoid over that night.
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Memorializing
As carefully as "Staff Sgt. Miguel Deynes prepares a final uniform for Capt. Aaron R. Blanchard," I'm drawn as much or more to the hanging uniforms and the racks of pink circles containing different insignias and medals.
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Prom Night, 1979
TIME unearths these photos of Obama with his (white) high school friends and prom date. But what relevance do they have?
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Woolwich: All That Confusion Over Michael Adebolajo's Soldier Cool
What's so novel and unique about the footage is how this man looked and sounded so rational, even deferential and slightly apologetic after butchering the British soldier.
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Military Sexual Harassment Pic of the Day: The West Point Student Body
Talking about the military's latest sexual harassment black eye, I was wondering what you thought of the photo accompanying yesterday's NYT story about female cadets at West Point being taped surreptitiously in the shower?
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The Visual Power (and Inundation) of Tragedy: Oklahoma City and Newtown, Boston, Long Island, New Jersey, West, Bangladesh
Unless OKC was just strangely synchronistic with recent traumas, perhaps a concerning side-effect of this steady diet of disaster is that all the imagery starts to run together.
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