Concern for New Orleans/Katrina II Really an RNC Scheduling Factor? (Photos by Brendan Hoffman)
After canceling Day 1 of the Republican Convention due to weather, and with Tropical Storm Isaac now gathering steam with a bead on New Orleans, might further postponements have to do with basic compassion? the re-deployment of security resources?
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: T-Paw on Ice
can't decide how much I think T-Paw was battered by media group think, versus how much Pawlenty just plain couldn't clear that classic bar of "having enough sizzle."
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Ron Paul — As Normal as Deep Fried Butter
To the extent this gives Paul a bit of a pious cast, it's makes him as normal, right now, as deep fried butter.
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Is Bachmann Sexy?
Is Bachmann bringing something sexual to the photo or the campaign, or is she more the Madonna to Palin's other kind of energy.
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Perry, a Prayer and a Cookie
Given how his candidate has been working the God-card, Jeff seems like the perfect endorsement for his man.
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Comic Relief –Team Newt Laying Eagle Eggs
With all the bad stuff in the air right down, we thought you could use a more featherweight look at the Iowa scramble as we count down to Saturday's Ames Straw Poll.
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Pawlenty Shooting Blanks; Bachmann Certainly Isn't
One might say that Pawlenty deserves points for being so unscripted, but I'm afraid being "unpackaged" these days requires an even slicker package.
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Bachmann's Inner Child
Not to be condescending, but do you sense a strong elementary quality here with a childlike feel to many of these faces and bodies?
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: The Bachmann Versus Pawlenty Voter
Photographer Brendan Hoffman is in Iowa leading up to the Ames Straw Poll on August 13th. We'll be following him and looking at what his photos suggest about the candidates, Campaign '12 and the current political climate.
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Brendan Hoffman: Thousands of Small Injustices
Brendan Hoffman from the Haitian election and why it went wrong: not just chaos or corruption alone, but a flawed process.
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Brendan Hoffman: Haiti Far From The Madding Crowd
The fifth and last of Brendan Hoffman's series from Haiti six months after the earthquake. If so many Haitian farmers hadn't been driven off their land by cheap foreign goods, these photos would represent many more who survived the quake in the capital and were living a sustainable rural...
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Brendan Hoffman: Eyes on Haiti's Rapes
They were willing to identify themselves to a foreign journalist and tell their stories: "They felt that, at least someone is asking and concerned," but Brendan felt, "I wanted to preserve their anonymity as much as possible. So I shot really tight and cropped in on the eyes." Because this...
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Brendan Hoffman: About Those Haitian Smiles
The second reason I wanted to return to Brendan Hoffman's recent images from Haiti is to reinforce the picture of the Haitian character. What we don't see in these two photographs, in the smiles, are a people either in denial of their circumstances or consumed to the core by...
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Brendan Hoffman: Haiti, Six Months Later
Photographer Brendan Hoffman returns to Haiti, six months after the earthquake.
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