Getting Above the Chaos: Science, Photography, and Beauty
The world can seem lost to white noise and alternative facts, lurid emotions and garish displays of moral ugliness. Which may be why I find these images from the Observatory in Chile to be so comforting.
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Matt Black: From Flint to Hiroshima
It’s consistently impressive how much Matt Black can put in play in one frame.
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The Most Innocent Picture in the World
The telltale element of the day was that simple bottle of H2O.
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On that Startling Flint Photo of 3 African-American Kids Toting Water
Showing kids who could, if not for the skin color, be coming home to Park Avenue from private schools brings home how universal the need for water is.
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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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To 2016 — And Photos Like We’ve Never Seen
In the new year, we're going to see a lot more wondrous and unusual imagery at the intersection of science, technology and nature.
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Winter is Missing. Congress, too.
With conservatives controlling both chambers, the reaction is predictable: are you going to believe us, or your own eyes?
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The Market Fiddles While Beijing Lungs Burn
The fact this photo appears during the crucial Paris climate summit raises its relevance, and the anxiety, to a whole different level.
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The Climate Crisis (& Why You’ve Gotta Love Those Businessweek Covers)
If PC is out the window, in this case, it's perfectly called for.
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Paris Earth Summit: Visual Activism Rises to the Climate
With the Paris climate summit following on the heels of a vicious terror attack, the atmosphere for visual activism could not be more elevated.
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Like Oil and Water
When it comes to the key issues of our time, how much does photography inform and how much does it entertain?
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Remember that Angry Penguin? Now it's the Cows.
As climate change gains more visibility in the public square, it's interesting to observe how creatures are playing a supporting role.
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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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On That “Angry" Penguin
Of all the nature and eco images I’ve seen lately, this hit me like a bucket of ice water.
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Mediterranean Crisis: Ecology is About People, Too
Isn't it curious how people tend to think about "ecology" as it relates to plants and air and water and less in terms of humanity and how much we look out for each other.
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Spring Time in the Dust Bowl
This photograph doesn’t tell us anything important that we don’t know, but it does provide the means to think about what we would rather ignore.
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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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