More Katrina in Retrospect: Blinded by the Light
The question we asked at the time, and we're asking still, is why the photos published inside the Superdome were so artful and distant?
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How to Understand the Newly Released 9/11 Photo of Dick Cheney with his “Foot Up”
Anyone reading a smug indifference, even if that's characteristic of Cheney most of the time, would understand at some level that it’s misattributed here.
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Volcanic Exceptionalism: Why America Treats Every Disturbance Abroad Like it’s Looking in a Mirror
People from the United States have been looking at South American volcanoes and seeing them as metaphors for what’s happening at home for at least one hundred and fifty years.
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Congrats to the Calbuco Volcano, Crashing the Weekly Menu of Disaster Entertainment
We don’t love the photos of the Calbuco Volcano because the eruption reminds us of a Yellowstone geyser, a giant 4-H winning cauliflower or the perfect backdrop for the monotonous subdivision.
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The Drought Doesn't Discriminate by Class or Ethnicity: Balazs Gardi in the Central Valley
After all the sensational and stereotyped coverage of the immigration issue, Gardi's photos parse Mother Nature from Beltway nature.
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On Damon Winter's "Divided" Photos of California's Water Crisis
The question is: how much is the photo more static and dread-laden, and how much is it more "fluid"?
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"What's Up" at The Dallas Museum of Art: Sculpture Imitates Life?
With everything in our increasingly technological, innovative and cataclysmic world as fodder for the camera, tell me it's not getting harder to make sense of what's sticking out anymore.
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"Breaking" Pic from Fukushima
Don't worry yourself what's bubbling beyond the tarp?
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The Beauty of LA Burning
LA burning isn’t beautiful because LA deserves to burn. LA burning is beautiful because we can see it that way.
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Mashup of the Day: Hands Up, Don’t Shoot
Maybe it’s relevant for drawing together the two biggest visual stories in the news stream right now — both involving blacks at risk.
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Benedicte Kurzen's Complex and Mysterious Photo from Ebola-Stricken Monrovia
This is one of the richest, most curious and most suggestive editorial photos I've seen in a while. I'm interested in your thoughts.
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Sensational Ebola Pictures: Those Aren't Astronauts
Its been too easy in the West to either ignore the Ebola pictures, or pull up a chair for the horror show.
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The Marriage of Wedding Photography and Photojournalism Getting Totally Out of Hand
Quick takes on one of the week's hottest wire photos.
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Hashtag Mining: 911museum
Is the 9/11 Museum a memorial or is it, ultimately, an art museum, cultural temple and design artifact?
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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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MA370: Still Haunting
All it takes is the prompt it has something to do with MA370 and the mind starts going.
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Aboard Malaysia Air Flight 370
If up to now, you only imagined the fated plane in your minds eye as a blip on a radar screen or even a murky fragment on a sea bottom somewhere, we’re now actually, incredibly on board.
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On that Photo from the Hope Wall at Kuala Lumpur International Airport
What is a face but a map, its own mystery.
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