Chatting the Pictures: Israel’s “Democracy SOS”
We note the scale and urgency of the "judicial coup" protests in Israel and their failure to garner international attention.
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Chatting the Pictures: Photo of Gaza Vigil an Appeal to the Senses
Amidst the rubble, this photo of Palestinian family members attending a candlelight vigil in Gaza makes an exquisite appeal to the senses.
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With Media Fixated on the Terror, a Good Time to Look Again at Everyday Middle East
With western media concentrated on Gaza and Douma, crisis and violence again come to stereotype the Middle East and Islam.
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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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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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Country and Class and How We Look at the Migrant Crisis
There is always a risk of seeing refugees or people in flight as poor and needy, especially if the photos focus on their dehumanization.
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Israel / Palestine: Visual Politics of the Knife
What does it mean to spotlight these huge hunting knives when younger Palestinians are just grabbing whatever is in the kitchen drawer?
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Welcome to Intifada 3
What surprisingly informative about this photo of Palestinian's at war with Israel in the Occupied Territories is how much they have to work with.
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Simply Transcendent: Bar Palestine Balances Despair and Dignity in Gaza
The achievement here is how the group can take this mindlessly oppressive rubble world and reduce it to pure geometry.
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Why We Saw the Photo of the Israeli Solder Giving the Palestinian Boy a Headlock … Not Fighting a Girl
It’s not just man vs. child, especially female child, that exposes the state. It’s also the sense the otherwise omnipotent soldier might actually be over his head.
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More Absurdity in Baltimore
Maybe the reporter knows something we don't because his reaction to this potentially explosive situation is primarily one of bemusement.
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Loaves and Fishes
It's not that this photograph or this scene from Gaza is unique at all. What so impactful is its resonance this Holy Week, today being Good Friday.
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Character Moments Versus Political Ones: Netanyahu's State of Disunion
If the general public failed to grasp the audacity of Tuesday's imagery, it's only because commentators, activists and partisans were so overwhelming focused on the politics and ideology.
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Too Much Art in a News Photo? West Bank Rhythm and Flow
The infusion of creativity into the news photo is not just an art itself, but is often a slippery slope.
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Front Pages: German Papers Point to Israel-Palestine in Paris Attacks
A feature in the German papers jumped out that made the erasure by the Orthodox paper that much more awkward and ironic.
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Enabling ISIS, the VICE Videos and the Execution of AFP Videographer James Foley
Where are the ethics and the boundaries when the media engagement is so passive, even acquiescent, and the product, so indistinguishable from propaganda that the insurgents feel they can have their way with the exposure?
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Gaza Parting Shots: Hamas Revealed, Israel No But(t)s
Fitting of perhaps the most (visually and politically) polarizing news event I can remember, the parting imagery from Israel and Gaza could not be stranger and more cutting.
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