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Looking Back on '14 With Compassion and Depth
I've been continually moved this year by imagery that took difficult situations and found a deeper human element.
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It's One of the Best Pictures of the Year Because...
If media skews to the dark side, the gift of the photo is the reminder that life is how you look at it.
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Wedding Photography and Gun Fights: Quite the Timing, No?
The way guns can so quickly refigure domestic life, I wonder if members of this wedding party appreciated just how loaded this pictures is.
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Having the Goods on Cuba
Call this unattributed Reuters photo a dig at the communist version of a big box store.
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Ode to Light: Making Street Photography in a Cynical Age -- by Amy Touchette
I know that if I’m to continue making photographs of the general public, I need to be aware of the context in which we live. I’m ready to explain to people that they are beautiful, that they are unique, and that they are worthy of being recognized, even if...
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NYPD Apostrophe "T"
If pro-police demonstrators were seen wearing t-shirts mockingly pushing back on the #ICan'tBreathe meme, yesterday's act has completely altered the atmosphere.
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Theater of War: Quick Takes on Sony's Surrender
Somewhere, Borat is laughing his ass off.
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With the Cuba Breakthrough, the One Thing You'll Be Seeing Plenty Of
Get ready for months of pictures of early model cars.
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Photos of the Year '14: Climate Change
Like a sociologist (and a humorist), Sullivan captures a sense of the drought that extends to the whole of suburbia.
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Jeb's Presidential Facebook Call All About the Profile Pic
With a more rainbow approach to America, the visual tonic is: we're not your father's GOP.
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Furry Friends Meet Cheap Clicks. (Or, the Rabid Proliferation of Year End Photo Lists.)
In the year end fight for eyeballs, it's a jungle out there.
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ISIS Hysteria Meets War on Christmas: On the Sydney Hostage Siege Screenshot
Gender-wise, the photo surely did have a voyeuristic and almost sado-sexual vibe to it.
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With Cheney, You Always Could Tell the Book From the Cover
It’s like the media is discovering anew the man lives in a parallel universe when the cover of his 2011 biography said it all.
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About the Photo (I Mean, Photos) of the Undercover Cop Pulling His Gun on Oakland Protesters
Does the photo of the undercover cop pointing his gun at a photographer come with more social and editorial baggage than most can handle?
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The Glass Ceiling and Gwyneth Paltrow's Legs
Of the 25 people named in the photo, only five are women and only one is a prime mover in an industrial company.
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Protesters vs. Props for Freedom: College Athletes Can't Breathe Either
The solidarity of the players expresses a desire not to wear “freedom” as a slogan but to seize it as a fragile part of their daily lives.
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The Beatings Will Continue
If all we can do is watch, we should at least recognize that we have a responsibility to do so, all down the line.
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Hey, What's That Thing Behind Cheney?
Nature has a way of crumpling itself up when it’s malnourished.
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The Beauty of LA Burning
LA burning isn’t beautiful because LA deserves to burn. LA burning is beautiful because we can see it that way.
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The Senate CIA Torture Report and Our Favorite Rice Photo of All Time
Given the explosive nature of the torture program and the need for deniability, the ability to lull both the public and the media represented the highest form of art.
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