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#BringBackOurGirls: The Complex Optics of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation
The controversy over the politics of representation in #BringBackOurGirls must be used to bolster the broader campaign for women’s safety, autonomy, and right to consent.
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That Vanity Fair Monica Lewinsky Spread: Black and White and Re(a)d All Over
What were left with (if it's not a parody on her claim to fame) is the act of her giving her body.
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The Open-and-Shut Assault Case Against Occupy Activist, Cecily McMillan: Just Look at the Pictures
And, if you thought this story had to do with anything more than the state and a woman's body, this shot puts that to rest.
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That Sleazy Obama - Sebelius White House Correspondents Dinner Photo
Evoking the stereotype of the hyper-sexual black man and the penchant for white women, it's still one more photo of the first black president with racist overtones.
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About Those Callous Selfies
I'm not prepared to say that this photo or its innumerable cousins have any moral implications at all.
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Spacious Photos of People Living in Shoeboxes
Spurred by top and bottom incomes rocketing in opposite directions, these eye-catching and, certainly, morally disorienting bird's eye views capture people in Hong Kong's high rises forced to exist in closet-sized spaces.
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Some Guy Executed Somewhere After a Couple of Tries
I wonder how much the randomness is reflective of how little we want to see, understand and take responsibility for this brand of extermination.
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The S. Korean Ferry Disaster: Living Hell in an Increasingly Mediated Age
I'm referring to how and how much participants live the experience live via screens and visual and social media. Which then, we do.
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Finbarr O'Reilly and the Fabulist Art of the Israeli Bomb Shelter
What strains also is the actual imagining of a "promised" land -- with the delusional notion that, once the air raid siren goes off, residents simply meld into the Zionist dream.
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Bad Westerns: That Shot of the Bundy Posse Observing the Anthem
What may be a moment of reverent patriotism is also an image of the last cowboys mourning their own demise.
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Juxtaposition of the Day: Pro-Russian Separatists Meet the NRA
Parents, babes and politial aims
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Hash Tag Mining: NBA Clippers vs. Owner Donald Sterling
It's black because that's the issue.
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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats ... and Other Modern Myths
If the National Geographic photos are aimed at social reform, they document something else as well: the shift in modernism from a utopian to a dystopian trajectory.
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Viral, But Why? That Photoshop Swarm over LAX
I'm entranced, too, but I'm wondering why architectural photographer, Mike Kelley's beautiful and meticulous LAX photoshop image, "Wake Turbulence," went viral.
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Gaza Riding Club: The Seduction of Seeing Palestinians Better Off
The potential existence of an elite class in Gaza – as much as America worships wealth and the demonstration of it – makes the Gazans not only look more normative and less like "the other."
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On NYT Mag's Obama/Gay Marriage Cover and that "Projectile Bouquet"
The way that Obama agonizes over his trajectory, perhaps the mixed metaphor is a direct hit.
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Occupying #MyNYPD
How fitting what might be the first social media mass demonstration is playing out on truly communal real estate.
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Ambassadors! They’re Just Like Us! A Day in the Life of Samantha Power
Photo spreads like these are part celebrity profile and part Horatio Alger myth.
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Boston Marathon 2014: Back to (the New) Normal
Funny how getting back on track looks a lot like war time.
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SI's #BostonStrong Cover
I imagine it's almost sacrilegious to to get too analytical about this, but it's interesting just how much the bombing seems to have threatened the psyche of this city.
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