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Chatting the Pictures: Mourning Embrace in a Gaza Hospital
We discuss the photo's anonymity and intimacy, as well as other images of the woman and child to personalize the interconnection of grief and loss.
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Chatting the Pictures: On a Gaza Playground, Seized by the Peril of Fighter Jets
The photo, timeless as it is specific, embodies the instinctual reactions, sustained fear, and psychic harm to children lacking true refuge.
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On Photography, Oct. 7, and Palestinians Under the Gun in Jerusalem
Philip Perdue examines Jerusalem news images after the Oct. 7 attack, showing how camera angles shape views and have moral consequences.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Israeli Hostage Poster
Analyzing the posters of abducted Israelis, we examine their format, 9/11 parallels, wide circulation, and how they inform Israeli unity.
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Chatting the Pictures: Libya's Climate-Fueled Flood at Epic Scale
With an expert perspective, this photo vividly conveys the immense scale of the climate-supercharged flooding in Libya.
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Chatting the Pictures: A Portrait that Dares to Expose Musk’s Madness
We do a deep dive into a daring photo that reflects Elon Musk as a supervillain and potentially mentally disturbed.
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Nolan Trowe’s Wheelchair Perspective Highlights Disability Activism
Wendy Kozol looks at how Nolan Trowe's images from a wheelchair provide a unique vantage of disabled activists in the halls of Congress.
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Chatting the Pictures: Coexisting with a Steadily Rising Sea
In the video, we contrast the vibrant elements of this Javanese portrait with the irony and cultural loss from the advance of climate change.
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Climate Activism’s Death Valley Daze
Climate activists have been otracized and left morally burdened by the lack of mass, top down acknowledgement of global heating.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Climate's Dark Harvest
As striking as it is ominous, this disorienting photo is a powerful indictment of the social and environmental impact of extreme heat.
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Disrupting Trump's Mug Shot and His "Singular Genius"
The treatment of Trump's mug shot is vital to consider, given the potential of the George conspiracy case to reshape his public identity.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Fate of Twitter in a Single Shot
In the video, we into the symbolism of the dismembered logo, the visual dynamics of the replacement “X,” and the live bird and the “BlueSky.“
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Barbiecore is Litmus Test in Post-Roe America
Barbie has become the summer's leading political symbol. Leslie Hahner on that astronaut portrait and Barbie’s projection in political space.
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Chatting the Pictures: Israel's "Democracy SOS"
We note the scale and urgency of the "judicial coup" protests in Israel and their failure to garner international attention.
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Chatting the Pictures: NYC's Children of the Smoke
The sight of smoke descending on NYC was otherworldly. The emotional fallout from the Canadian wildfires, especially on children, was also.
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Chatting the Pictures: Rough Times for Trump and His Body Man
In addition to the power imbalance evident in the photo, we explore the racial and cultural dynamics in the Trump-Nauta relationship.
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Chatting The Pictures: Death is Part of Life
The image is exemplary for its calmness and domesticity when death is so often distanced and ostracized in modern culture.
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Chatting the Pictures: Ukraine’s Army of Exhumation
We explore the stunning portraiture, the powerful geometry, and how unique and devastating the investigation is for taking place this soon.
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Chatting the Pictures: Liz Cheney On the Hunt
As Liz Cheney leads the charge against Trump and “the big lie,” the background here lets us know she’s a force to be reckoned with.
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Chatting the Pictures: When the Wind Turbine Met the Wildfire
This dramatic photo sets up a fundamental clash between symbols of climate destruction and a green energy future.
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