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On That Over-Processed Times Cover Photo of MA17 Crash Site
If something happened at night, you can't turn it into day.
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On the Brilliant Michelle Obama Brown vs Board of Education Site Visit Photo
What's brilliant about the photo is how it's plays the "post-racial" ideal against the reality of continuing racism and discrimination.
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The Death of Four Gazan Cousins, Children of Fishermen
All that intensity makes the rest more unspeakable as we view the broken body of another cousin, futilely hanging on to life, as he's carried like a sack.
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The Importance of News Photography Treating Migrants Like People
Surely images are published from time to time that slip through the editing process. The question, however, is where does one draw the line between documenting and exploiting, between reporting and voyeurism?
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What's More Deplorable, the Killing of Journalists Or Hardly Noticing?
Journalists have become targets in that many places for that long now that their vulnerability, and ultimately their fungibility, has ceased to even be noteworthy.
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The Second Coming: The Messianic Visuals of LeBron's Return to Cleveland
These images are only a small sampling, but the symbolism should be clear: LeBron James is still a savior, the prodigal son awaiting his redemption.
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Beyond Print: Larger Meaning of the NYT Sports Page LeBron Cover
If the layout is a twist on the ability of a news page to capture the impact, it’s also a commentary on how anachronistic the paper has become.
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The Latest Israel/Hamas Missile War: Fear at the Beach
If you are open to the comparison, the photo can't help but speak to "who's on top."
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David Schalliol from Chicago: On the South Side, as in Detroit, Rumblings of Something Different
I continue to seek the right balance between the challenges that plague the community and the life that goes on in response to – or in spite of – them. After all, it is difficult to make sense of what we observe without falling back on our preconceived...
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Immigration in Pictures: Despite the Noise, not all Border Ranchers are Haters
If the facts of this photo would strain believability for some, it’s further testament to the dominance of controversy and contentious political narratives.
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#BringBackOurHashtag: Activism, Hacktivism & Photography in the Social Media Sphere
Social media activism is an undeniably important part of public protest, especially when pictures are involved. However, the unintended consequences of these forms of online protest remain unclear.
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Juxtaposition of the Day: Neymar Crushed, and an Overpass
With Brazil reaching the Cup semi-finals, there has been a sense all along that the country could not come through the tournament without enduring certain trials, weighed down perhaps by the cost to common good.
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God Selfie the Queen
I’m just waiting for the first security honcho to label this behavior an assault, or "visual terrorism” even.
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Im-Migrant Mother
Has Frankfurter chosen to represent this mother from the most tragically beautiful viewpoint, one directed almost singly at our sense of humanity? Yes, she has.
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Americans Don't Like to Lose
Why I was drawn to these pictures is because, at least in my mind, they combine a sprinkling of sport, nationalism and, in the first photo at least, hints of militarism, too.
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On that ISIS/ISIL Centerfold
I imagine you’ve seen this gentleman posing here in his outdoor boudoir?
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More Questions Over Ethics: Is Reuters Enabling ISIL and are they Working with Sympathizers Again?
What are the implications of these photos in terms of the integrity of international news reporting? And what is the political, perceptual and propaganda impact of these photos relative to the goals of this terror group knowing how high they are riding?
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Corporate Gay Pride. (Let's Just Say, Not What I Expected in SF Yesterday.)
What I imagined, on my way into San Francisco yesterday (that famous, or infamous hotbed of liberalism) to attend Gay Pride, was an overwhelmingly progressive, indy and gonzo event.
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