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Chatting the Pictures: Greenland’s Icy Undoing
We discuss this novel photo from Ilulissat where the harbor is open year-round now because the winter cold can no longer freeze it solid.
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At the Tipping Point: So Much for the Pioneer Spirit
2021 represented a climate change tipping point. In recounting key visual markers, we call out two images from the Dixie Fire.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Most Historic Photo from the January 6th Uprising
This photo from the January 6 Capitol uprising was likely the year's most historic. We delve into its meaning and perceptual effect.
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Chatting the Pictures: A Most Unique and Dignified Abortion Image
As restrictions on abortion increase, we look at this photo of Dr. Rebecca Taub performing a surgical abortion, and how intimacy and the camera angle dignifies the procedure.
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Chatting the Pictures: Dina Litovsky’s Child Vax Portraits from the Kid’s Eye View
Dina Litovsky captures how New York City kids feel about getting the COVID-19 vaccine, highlighting a sense of health, normalcy, and agency.
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Chatting the Pictures: Stacy Kranitz's Spotlight Image from Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic
As the Supreme Court nears a decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade, we explore the symbolism of this foreboding photograph.
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Chatting the Pictures: Tuvalu’s Climate Summit Parting Shot
We discuss Tuvalu's quirky Glasgow Climate Summit video that won the internet. Posing as one more crisis speech, the effect is beyond words.
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Doubled Over By Ida
2021 was a climate tipping point. And among the catastrophes, this blow from Hurricane Ida seemed to speak to a larger fate.
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At the Tipping Point: Wildfire Threatens Tahoe
Summer 2021 was a tipping point. Fires, floods, heat waves and hurricanes scaled up, as did the mass recognition of climate change as an existential crisis. As part of that recognition, many brilliant, symbolically-laden pictures crystallized the moment.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Lava at the Kitchen Window
With the La Palma volcano in Spain generating such a steady flow of dramatic pictures, why did this subtle one circulate so widely?
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Chatting the Pictures: Undersea Gardens and Positive Climate Change Visuals
On the eve of the critical Glasgow Climate Summit, we focus on ClimateVisuals.org and the power of images that promote constructive impact.
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Chatting the Pictures: Famed Congo Gorilla Dies in Her Caretaker’s Arms
We discuss the surprising power and depth of this viral image as Ndakasi, the famed Congo mountain gorilla, takes her last breath.
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The Taliban, A Pair of Skis, and Seeing What We Think We Know
Seen as wildly provocative on social media, photos of Taliban fighters in the Norwegian Embassy after the fall of Kabul say as much about visual bias.
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Chatting the Pictures: Extinction Rebellion-Style Shock Waves, Climate Flooding Hits the U.N.
As the climate crisis escalates, the ferocity and creativity of the activist group Extinction Rebellion seem perfectly matched.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Most Telling Photos of US Olympic Gymnasts Testifying Against the FBI
There were many photos of the Olympic gymnasts testifying about FBI negligence in their sexual abuse case. But none more assertive than this.
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Chatting the Pictures: Border Agent on Horseback Manhandling Haitian Migrant a Whip to Humanity
We deconstruct the photo of a US border agent on horseback using what looks like a whip on a Haitian migrant in Del Rio, Texas.
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Chatting the Pictures: Afghan Refugee in the Paralympic Spotlight
We discuss sports, war, and fortitude as Karimi competes for the Paralympics Refugee team as his former country falls to the Taliban.
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Chatting the Pictures: Hurricane Ida, Chemical Plants Flare Louisiana Gulf
We know the levees held and the electric grid didn’t. But the other impact of Hurricane Ida, as the photo telegraphs, came from the chemical plants in “Cancer Alley.”
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Chatting the Pictures: Bernie Serves Up Massive New Deal
Maureen Dowd was looking for dish but Bernie Sanders would not be distracted from liberal's game-changing social spending and climate plan.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Military’s Night Vision “Leaving Afghanistan” Portrait
The viral photo of the last U.S. soldier leaving Afghanistan was a brilliant final bit of public relations.
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