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With All Our Troubles, Comet NEOWISE Offers Timely Perspective
Could the comet be a sign? Only coming around every 6,800 years, perhaps NEOWISE has some lessons to offer about history, humility, and introspection.
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Portland Protests: Mary Poppins Has Had Enough
Until a few weeks ago, the demand for racial justice and an end to police violence was pretty straightforward. Clearly, things have gotten more complicated.
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Chatting the Pictures: Parents Fight Masks in Utah
In this highlight video, we find as much confusion and ambivalence as anger in Utah parents protesting a requirement students wear masks to fight COVID-19.
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Chatting the Pictures: Protest, Racial Justice, and Portland’s ”Wall of Moms”
This webcast looks at the militarized response to racial justice protest in Portland and the role of a largely white mothers group demonstrating there.
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Where John Lewis Meets the Present Moment
Crowley's photo honoring John Lewis elevates an important aspect of the movement. It highlights today's injustices as yet another opportunity to educate.
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This Fauci Cover Is Not Cool. It's Sad.
Poor Dr. Fauci has been reduced to defending his stature by playing the White House's game.
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Death From Covid and the Western Gaze
This photo from Rio provides a view of poverty and the brutal outcome of the coronavirus that just isn't seen in America.
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Chatting the Pictures: Trump Mt. Rushmore; Gun Waving St. Louis Couple; Racial Protest Self Portrait
This webcast looks at the Trump Mt. Rushmore rally, the St. Louis couple that pointed weapons at demonstrators, and a racial justice self-portrait.
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Telling Image of Race at DC Emancipation Statue
It's an especially symbolic photo as America reckons with the legacy of Black slavery. Studying Evelyn Hockstein's photo, the question is where to begin?
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Refacing the Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond
As it awaits its fate, the Robert E. Lee monument has become nothing short of an artistic magnet—literally a canvas to change.
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Chatting the Pictures: 3 Signature Images of the George Floyd Protests
In this week's Chatting the Pictures, educator John Mason joins us to discuss key portraits from the protests following the killing of George Floyd.
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Tabloids Get Black Man’s “Heroic” Rescue of White Hooligan Exactly Backwards
Take away the celebration and what we have is a visual testament to the way black people have historically been weighed down and burdened by the white man.
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As Militarism Runs Rampant, Even the Virus Falls Victim
The display of military force has been so furious, it has even made Covid and the valorizing of medical workers disappear.
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Documenting a Protest Has Never Been More Challenging
This week has been unusually difficult for photographers who are trying to cover the George Floyd protests. Essay and images by photographer Alan Chin.
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Chatting the Pictures: Here Are the Photos of People Suffering and Dying of Covid
This week, photographer Nina Berman joins us to discuss three images from our article, “Here Are the Photos of People Suffering and Dying of Covid.”
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The Intersection of Racial Violence and the Coronavirus
What the photo speaks to is two different viruses that attack the lungs and kill African Americans.
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Here Are the Photos of People Suffering and Dying of Covid
Some doubt the lethality of the virus. Others question whether dire images, or enough impactful images exist. But the photos are there to see.
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Stunning COVID Photo of Compassionate Nurse in Austin
At Ascension Seton Hays Hospital in Austin, they have a policy that nobody dies alone. Our thoughts on the deeply moving photo of nurse Colby Hutson.
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Chatting the Pictures: Life and Death in New York; Distanced Mother’s Day; Restaurants Adapt
This webcast looks at a complex scene in a New York City park, distanced well-wishers at an LA nursing home, and a widely published COVID-era restaurant.
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The Virus Has Not Been Kind To Our Elders
In photo after photo of the crisis, the aged have become the people trapped behind the glass.
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