Trump’s Napalm Girl: Consequences of a Drowned Migrant Father and Daughter
The significance of the drowning photograph: America at a tipping point. What it says about Trump. When a photo like this should be seen.
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Amish and Mennonite Photo Coverage in Face of Sexual Abuse, #MeToo
Because posing for a photo can be interpreted as a form of pride, scenes of the accused often resemble paparazzi shots or perp walks.
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Mexican Forces Give Their All for the Cameras to Placate Trump
With Trump on their backs over immigration deal, Mexico put the "show" in "show of force" at its southern border.
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A Defining Image of Trump’s America: The Cage Seller
If you had to choose one picture to illustrate Trump's larger motive, Mark Peterson's photograph is literally the money shot.
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Make America Meme: Why Melania Trump Birthday Photo was a Coup for the White House
More than pointed critiques, these memes tend to offer the Trump administration greater drama and even unwitting sympathy.
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How Climate Change is and isn’t Fueling the U.S. Border Crisis: These Pictures aren’t that Simple
With all the visual attention given to the "caravan," how powerful to see mass migration also depicted by people taking hold of a place.
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The Barr Code: Why the Mueller Redactions Went Viral
The Barr version of the Mueller Report confirms Trump’s lasting legacy as a black out.
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Louisiana Church Fires in the Shadow of All Else
The Louisiana church fires have been largely overlooked. Edmund Fountain's powerful parishioner portrait calls out: "We are here!"
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The Black Hole Picture: Ultimately, the Viral Image is More a Reflection of Ourselves
If we really can’t see a black hole, the next best thing is a picture we find familiar.
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Photography Challenge: Straddling Female Stereotypes as Women Become Marines
How well does Lynsey Addario’s New York Times boot camp story stand up in the age of #MeToo?
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The Meaning of Roseanne Barr in Jerusalem
How Hollywood star power negotiates a career fallout by heading to the Holy Land.
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Mulling on Mueller, Mo’ Beto, and So Much Posterizing: Our Social Week
This week, our social feeds focused on post-Mueller anxiety, more personality politics, and images legitimizing and delegitimizing.
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Trump and Reporters on the South Lawn: Getting Stranger by the Day
The reason I’m writing this is because the photos of Trump and reporters on the South Lawn have become flat out bizarre lately.
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Compassionate Christchurch, Youthful Sincerity of the Climate Strike: Our Social Week
Christchurch and the resolve in mourning. Young eco activists speaking with their feet, and their posters. That was our visual focus this week.
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The Grieving Woman at the Ethiopian Airlines Crash Site, and the Western Gaze
The expression of grief is so intense, I cannot forget it. At the same, however, I feel challenged looking at the photo as a westerner.
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S/He Wore A Pearl Necklace
The necklace stunt reminds us that guns, masculinity, and domination hang together as part of a hard right political style.
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Kill Them with Kindness: Leading up to the Lie Maduro Burned US Aid Trucks
The 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.
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Diatribe of the Accused, Silence for the Abused: Our Social Week
A 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...
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