The Delicate Balance of Style Photos from War-Torn South Sudan
We are encouraged to see the South Sudanese people as something other than the face of a crisis. The risk, though, is to miss the crisis completely.
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Watch Nancy Burson’s Latest GIF Morphing Trump with “Rocket Man”
The GIF and the picture are about Trump's identification with nemeses, and about scaling the Mt. Olympus for autocrats.
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News Photos: Taking 2 Quakes to Feel for Mexico
It took a second devastating earthquake for visual media to focus more intimately on Mexico's suffering. Should it have?
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Portrait Week: Our Social Media Roundup
From DC to Antarctica, Russia-gate to Iraq, it was a week for political portraits.
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Timely Paintings: World Leaders as Refugees
I'm fully on board with the focus on power -- especially star power.
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Comey as Metaphor: Our Social Media Roundup of the Week
Looking at the most striking pictures from the last five days, greater light and clarity seems to be the theme.
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London and a Fake Suicide Vest
The biggest threat of this attack was the potential to create outsized effects on the cheap. A fake vest or a real one is part of sorting the difference.
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Love to Damocles: Our Trump First Foreign Trip Grand Tour
If Trump's first foreign trip was successful in any way, it was only in its Groucho notes and the respite from the Russian tornado back home.
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Beyond Manchester: A Typical Terror-Filled Monday
Perhaps the most insidious impact of the attack on Manchester is the narrowing of western attention.
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At Trump’s Invitation: Revisiting Pulitzer-Winning Philippine Drug War Photos
When Daniel Berehulak's Philippine drug war photos won a Pulitzer last month, what was also on my mind was how they related to the homefront.
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Zombie Trumps at the Border: Risk Goes Both Ways
Analyzing the power in Verónica Cárdenas’s photos of immigrants wearing Trump masks.
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Seeing War For What It Is: Ridiculous
War is not fashion and suffering is not funny. But the photo of this missile is both familiar and odd enough to seem uncanny.
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Protest in Russia, Protest in America
The question is about how familiar Americans are with Russia. And it's about the burden placed on news photos.
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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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Crisis Follies: Trump’s N. Korea Missile Dinner
The photo demonstrates Trump's conflict between country club owner and Commander-in-Chief. The dreamy look during a potential world crisis is quite damning.
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Only Alt-Right Economics Could Create Such a Powerful Muslim Ban Protest Photo
Of course, the photo is making a moral argument. But then the picture "gets down to business."
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On That Eerie Aleppo Photo Doubling Man and Child
Once one man leaves the frame, another will follow, and once there are no men left to exit, there will be more Aleppos.
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Why Photographs Don’t Stop the War
Photographs may have long wave influence, but they don’t end wars or famines or otherwise stop history in its tracks.
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