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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Why There Aren’t Any Photos of Hamas Fighters (and Why the NYT, Tyler Hicks and Photographers Have Been Unfairly Blamed)
Let's call it "the drone factor."
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On Carolyn Cole’s Striking Photo of an Injured Muslim Woman in Gaza
Speaking for myself, I can hardly remember a news photo of a woman in a chador laying injured, let alone lying down.
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Gaza: What One Side Sees and What the Other Side Sees (GRAPHIC)
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.
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Thoughts on That Beautiful Gaza "Leaflet Sky"
This photo just feels so wrong to me right now.
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Between Israel and Gaza, How the Pictures Could Possibly Relate
What 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?
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Defusing the Air Strike
The impetus for the photo-illustration is to take over, handle and re-animate the bloody hell.
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Gaza's 9/11?
Depending 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.
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Israel/Gaza: Photos at Two Ends of a Week
Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
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I Could Show you Photos from the Air Strike on the Beit Hanoun U.N. School Yesterday. Or….
What 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.
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Israeli War: How the Cracks Are Beginning to Show (in 4 Wire Photos)
These photos reflect the growing sense that Israel and the IDF are not going to survive this latest war with the swagger intact.
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These Are the Days of Scorched Earth
It seems fateful phrases are coming more easily at the moment than regular words.
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The Death of Four Gazan Cousins, Children of Fishermen
All 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.
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What's More Deplorable, the Killing of Journalists Or Hardly Noticing?
Journalists have become targets in that many places for that long now that their vulnerability, and ultimately their fungibility, has ceased to even be noteworthy.
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More Questions Over Ethics: Is Reuters Enabling ISIL and are they Working with Sympathizers Again?
What 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?
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