While media consumers are bombarded daily with the most gut wrenching images of dead and injured Palestinians, especially children, the battle rages as to whether the images represent atrocities or collateral damage and the use of human shields.
Continue ReadingThis photo just feels so wrong to me right now.
Continue ReadingWhat does it even mean to do justice to the soul-crushing photos pouring out of Gaza and Israel these past three weeks? And then where does balance come into it?
Continue ReadingThe impetus for the photo-illustration is to take over, handle and re-animate the bloody hell.
Continue ReadingDepending on how associative your mind is, this AP photo from Gaza City can be seen to draw an analogy between 9/11 and the shattering hurt still unfurling in Gaza this deathly season.
Continue ReadingNever finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
Continue ReadingWhat is commanding the world's attention in this latest war and the Israeli bombardment is the toll it has taken, and continues to take on children.
Continue ReadingThese photos reflect the growing sense that Israel and the IDF are not going to survive this latest war with the swagger intact.
Continue ReadingIt seems fateful phrases are coming more easily at the moment than regular words.
Continue ReadingAll that intensity makes the rest more unspeakable as we view the broken body of another cousin, futilely hanging on to life, as he's carried like a sack.
Continue ReadingJournalists have become targets in that many places for that long now that their vulnerability, and ultimately their fungibility, has ceased to even be noteworthy.
Continue ReadingWhat are the implications of these photos in terms of the integrity of international news reporting? And what is the political, perceptual and propaganda impact of these photos relative to the goals of this terror group knowing how high they are riding?
Continue ReadingFor one thing, the judge spent a good chunk of time during the trial behind dark glasses.
Continue ReadingWith the Israel/Palestine situation at a stalemate, what else can this girl do?
Continue ReadingAnd yet, is it possible — puppies as metaphor, and emotional suggestion -- to conceive of the Israelis and the Palestinians engaging in a way that is softer? When you put it into words, it sounds remarkable silly, but such is the power of photography.
Continue ReadingThere is a quick element in the clip that doesn't seem to square with the overwhelming vision of peace, love and undoing.
Continue ReadingIf this bus was a violation of the "no-campaigning during voting" rules, it didn't matter.
Continue ReadingIf there is cheering and yelling at events like this, my sense is that most Egyptians are quietly resigned. It’s so predictable from here out. Egyptians have lost their voice again.
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