Picturing Vaccination Reluctance Among Conservative Christians
Vaccination reluctance in these small Appalachian towns is less a matter of politics or social responsibility than a complex conflict with faith.
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The Infected Primary
When the democratic process poses a clear and present danger, we should all be able to admit that political malfunction is staring us in the face.
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Christmas Back With a Vengeance: Jesus, Mary and Joseph in Cages
The nativity protest photo hit a nerve: Imagining what might happen if the most well-known refugee family in the world tried to seek asylum in today’s USA.
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Trump’s Thanksgiving Wingman: Pence in Iraq
Pence can be counted on to deliver a steady diet of visual comfort food, indulging those who hunger for a return to the political style of Ronald and Nancy.
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S/He Wore A Pearl Necklace
The necklace stunt reminds us that guns, masculinity, and domination hang together as part of a hard right political style.
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Just Don’t Call it Socialism
Williamson's photo of Americans outside a free health clinic brings the discussion of "socialism," and/or a more humane social policy into greater focus.
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Midterms Mania and one Candidate’s Wife’s Purple Hair
"I like the idea of Congress being exposed, as much as possible, to women who rock the purple hair and to the men who admire them." An eye on Indiana's 9th.
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From Da Vinci to Mnuchins, Obscene Wealth as Gospel
The era of billionaire populism is going to be remembered with pictures like this.
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Far Right Pounces on 6 Month Old Hillary (Porch) Stumble
Hillary haters love to pounce on every visible sign that Mrs. Clinton has an actual human body.
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Kim Jong Trump: A Good Fit?
The photograph shows how mythical imagery and catchy slogans work similarly on the imagination, even if we're not entirely comfortable parading them around publicly.
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Trump as Führer. It Doesn’t Happen on its Own.
Yes, stylistic echoes of the Führer are inescapable. But it's more complicated than that.
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On that Photo of the Pope and a Prisoner Holding Hands in Philadelphia
Condensing his visit to one powerful scene, the photo captures Pope Francis's challenge to America and its uncompromising political class to reach out.
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Colbert: Fit to Be Untied
What we're seeing in this photograph is the look of a person who's reached a tipping point.
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On Light, God, Photography … and That Moment Just Before the Bad Thing Happens
The point isn't that photography is God, or that God is a photograph. But we are in fact dealing with a mode of communication that freezes time and space, obeys its own laws, is both visual and grammatical, and does more to generate meaning—and generates more meaning—than we can...
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Good Cop, Bad KKKOP
"White racists aren't racist because they hate blacks; they're racist because they don't know who they are without blacks."
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Charleston: For My Soul Is Full of Troubles
Time and time again, the psalmist asks God a simple but difficult question: Why?
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Scott Walker and the GOP's Biker Pose
The Mad Max aesthetic lets the GOP project tribal and libertarian instincts at the same time.
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Migrant Other: The Rohingya Crisis and the Tendency of News Photos to Confuse Compassion with Patronization
I worry that newswire photographs during humanitarian crises have a way of exposing their subjects to a not-so-subtle mode of international brow-beating.
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