Oscars Screw Up: The New Not Normal
The big question, after this impressive fail, is whether topsy-turvy is running away with us.
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Overshadowed by his Photo: The Afterlives of Omran Daqneesh
Omran's suffering essentially disappeared at the very moment the image of it became visible.
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Cranky Transfer of Power: Our Trump Inauguration Round Up
Perhaps the best thing way to sum up the inauguration is that the deed has been done and the Trump era has officially begun.
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MLK Day Meets the Trump Inauguration
We felt a special obligation this year to find just the right photo to commemorate Martin Luther King Day.
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Take It Down (LEAVE IT UP): On Congress Tiff over Ferguson Painting
Is this art dispute a weird throwback to the culture wars or a sign of things to come?
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Hello Orwell: On the Congressman’s Kid Who Dabbed Paul Ryan
In the new atmosphere, the dab can be seen in the same register as the Kaepernick knee down.
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News Photos of Police Protests: More Profiling of Black Males
What we're seeing in these photo galleries is a replay of the stereotype associating young black men with criminal and savages.
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Girl Power, Sexism and that Viral Hillary Millennial Selfie Swarm
Where is the passion for Hillary, you ask? It’s there in the photo, plain as day.
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Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Our Twitter/Instagram Favs of the Week
The elements are all there in our social media roundup, from the Mediterranean to King's River to Vegas. And of course, Election '16 continues to generate plenty of heat.
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Making Faith Visible: Picturing the Spiritual through the Ultimate Anguish
It's hard to visually convey faith or spirituality, especially through the ultimate anguish. That's what's so moving, and accomplished, about Lisa Krantz's images.
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On that Crazy Pete Souza Obama VR Shot
If, a few years ago, someone told us this picture celebrated the centennial anniversary of the National Park Service…. mind blown!
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The Visual Politics of Empty Shelves
Photographs of bare stores and starving families fit too neatly into us and them, imagining whole political systems as economically and morally bankrupt.
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Baton Rouge: Channeling the Fire with Amazing Grace
Mindful of the smoldering racial and political atmosphere in the country right now, the photo's symbolism reaches far beyond a single instance of goodwill.
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Ruddy Roye’s Remarkably Unremarkable Pride Photo
If I had seen this same image a few years back, I might have read it in terms of invisibility — or theatricality. Not so today.
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The Larger Fabric: Ruddy Roye’s Frame on the Orlando Massacre
As a photo about the Orlando massacre, Ruddy has done something extraordinarily bold here.
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Jae C. Hong’s Instagram Photo and the LGBT Bathroom Battle
Jae Chong's photo on Instagram didn't come with a caption, so I wrote one ... about the current LGBT firestorm.
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On the Raised-Fist Photo by Black Women Cadets at West Point
The fact is, this photo channels the culture of uprising and black activism just as much as it does unity, pride and sisterhood.
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Leibovitz and the Queen on her 90th: Monarchy & Marketing
The stunning photos of Queen Elizabeth you're seeing this week are hardly agenda-free.
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