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Ruddy Roye from Jamaica: The Hardest Time We Have Ever Had To Go Through
Each year whenever I visit my home of Montego Bay, it is difficult to avoid the stark faces of suffering people living in what I can only describe as a stagnant existence. I am both conscious and aware of the slow struggles of some the Jamaican people, especially poor...
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In the Reflecting Pool: The March on Washington and the Diminishing Space for Public Protest
Looking at the photos from this weekend's 2013 anniversary, the visual and physical shift in the civic and expressive relationship to democratic space is shocking to me.
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The Civil Rights Movement and the Stamp of '63
A major narrative surrounding the story involves the challenge, for the civil rights movement and the media, to make this week more than just a commemoration and an exercise in nostalgia. Considering this widely-circulated image of an event at the Newseum on Friday, that might be a tall order.
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Looking for the White Trayvon Martin
If the reverse-race version has proven its illustrative value beyond Zimmerman's trial, what, exactly, does the illustration have to offer the right?
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White House & Puppies + Twitter & Instagram = Media Fetching & Rolling Over
A new dog offers a snapshot of the ability of the White House to generate social media buzz.
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Bradley Manning's Lawyer on the Unfairness, and Dignity, We Weren't Allowed to See
What his lawyer wanted us to know is that Manning, against the stereotype of him as diminutive and weak, behaved with dignity and grace under enormous pressure. If allowed, photographs and videos would have reflected that on the air and front pages everywhere.
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Chemical Weapons, the Insanity of Eastern Ghouta and Eyes on the Assads
If the victimization of Syrian citizens are, in fact, the heinous act of the government, what we're looking at is profound and despicable blasphemy.
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How About "Nyet": Explaining the Russian Gold Medal Sprinter's "Gay Protest" Podium Kiss
I thought Obama supposedly ogling a G-8 intern, or a couple supposedly making out in the middle of a riot presented classic case studies of news photos taken wildly out context. Those are merely silver medals, however, compared to the golden misread made by countless prominent national and international...
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Militarization Meets Back-to-School Day
I liked the photos above for their quirky art photography vibe, these knobs -- like extras in a Wes Anderson movie -- as little more than laughably-impressionable automatons.
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Where Things are Pointed in Egypt (and Have Been Since the Coup)
To the extent photographs can foreshadow, these series of hands -- displayed as symbol of the martyr, as evidential stain, and as steadfast defiance -- constitute a deadly arc.
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Former Newsweek Editor and that "Blurry" Obama
Did the intent of the image, when it was originally made, have more to do with Obama's political style? Or was it motivated more by the fact the man was such an unknown?
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Next Time You Hit a Wall, Hit it Back
What's so notable about the image, obviously, is how much the poster both foreshadows and mirrors the mayhem in the streets.
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The Machine and the Martyrs: The Quintessential Photo from the Maniacal Crackdown in Cairo Last Week
Though the week was filled with horrific and telling imagery, no photo struck me more than this.
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David Degner in Cairo: Putting Names and Faces to Morsi Supporters for a Change
Photographer David Degner has been living and working in Cairo for several years and covering the Arab Spring and its turbulent trajectory there and also in Libya and Syria. After the Egyptian army and police stormed the Muslim Brotherhood’s encampments protesting the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, David made...
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There is Shooting and There is Shooting
Among photography's many virtues, it slows the world down, indeed, it stops the world in ways that normal sight is often hard pressed to do—at 1/800th of a second, for example—inviting us not just to look at the world around us, but to see it, sometimes with fresh eyes.
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Hitler Non Grata
Is there any instance where a Hitler or a bin Laden would evoke more insight than stigmatization in such a format?
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One Sochi, Anti-Gay Russia Line of Attack: Putin's Repressed
In the next weeks and months leading up to Sochi, there is going to be a flood of images, and I imagine, visual provocations pushing back on Russia's primitive stance on homosexuality.
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The Razing in Cleveland of Ariel Castro's House
Can you imagine the pain and embarrassment of that monumental shame on Seymour Avenue becoming ceremonial for a day?
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SF Weekly's Ball Busting Oakland PD Cover
Of course, it's a sexual innuendo, but it's perfect the way it's that twisted.
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Fukushima Ongoing: More Tragicomic Images As Contaminated Water Crisis Looms
I'm not sure what's more terrifying. Is it TEPCO's latest crisis, or the relative lack of international attention, urgency ... and explanatory imagery?
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