Monster Hurricanes and Eco Disaster Photos: The Indecisive Moment
These eco disaster photos allow us to take account of the slow consequences of Harvey and Irma. The fact they defy closure is the whole point.
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The Most Powerful, Least Seen Harvey Photos: Our Roundup
From the beginning, we sensed Harvey would be physically and socially devastating. These powerful, but lesser seen photos stood out.
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Harvey Unprecedented? What About 2 Weeks Ago in Sierra Leone?
Although Harvey's impact seems to be mercifully smaller in ways than recent monster storms overseas, these events call for larger ways to scale them.
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American Refugees: On that Harvey Portrait by Alyssa Schukar
In one incredibly lashing from the heavens, we now face our own refugee crisis.
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Haiti, Matthew and the Limits of Attention
What makes one critical event the intense focus of “name photojournalists” and visual media while others are largely ignored?
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It’s Not Just a Photo, it’s a Story — The Italian Earthquake, and What News Photos Can Do Today
Because we’re all story makers and explanation seekers, we can help but “fill in the picture” and experience how it all blew apart.
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A Transfixing Picture from the Flood Zone
The flood not withstanding, it’s an excruciatingly ordinary domestic picture.
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Some Thoughts on the Louisiana Flood Pictures
It's hard not to look at the photos of the historic flooding in Louisiana outside the frame of the presidential campaign and our national identity.
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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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Mapplethorpe to Stonewall: the Orlando Massacre Over the Course of Sunday
Tracking the visual reactions to the horrific Orlando massacre on Twitter over the course of the day Sunday.
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Bhopal Portrait: Not Pathetic, Not Stereotyped
If the portrait prominently references a tragedy and a care agency, it hardly pulls for pity.
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Fort McMurray: Hard Pictures from the Alberta Wildfire
Whether the aftermath photo captured some essence of catastrophe and childhood, domesticity, suburbia or fate, each of them touched a chord.
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No One Thinking About Nuclear Summit? Listen to the Ruins.
The nuclear summit was important–unless, that is, you don’t mind having Your Town looking like this.
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Flint: Raise Your Glasses
Whether or not they're swilling the river brand, the photo catches Flint's bureaucrats red handed.
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On that Flint – Detroit Water Comparison Photo
So, I’ve been looking at this Flint crisis picture for a week now and it’s still not sitting well.
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Has Disaster Gone Modern? New Years Fire & Fireworks in Dubai
Are disasters the trade-off for living in a grander, richer, more technological, more super-sized and more sensational century?
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Photographing the Refugee Crisis: The Significance of Less Context
Let me suggest that the more interchangeable the images, they more they point toward the full significance of this historical moment.
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On Norbert Baksa’s “Migrant Chic” Fashion Shoot
What Baksa has done may differ in degree, but not in kind with how his clients and the news media are pushing the edge.
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