Protest Focus Archives - Page 15 of 18

Notes Photo February 19, 2011

I'm Down With The Uprising (Until They Stop Looking Like Us)

How much were the pictures from Egypt like cotton candy for American eyes, especially as compared to uprising scene populated by Islamic citizens in other countries, particularly citizens in religious garb?

Notes Photo February 14, 2011

David Degner in Cairo: Strikes Threat to Democracy OR Expression of It?

Consistent with the hand wringing in some Western media, maybe the Generals will just decide to put their feet down and outlaw all strikes, Until they do so, however, perhaps what we're seeing -- in the policemen in Cairo or the rail works in Mansoura -- is the expression...

Notes Photo February 12, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: "Yesterday I was a Demonstrator. Today I Build Egypt"

As celebration of Mubarek's downfall continues into a second day and night, its a time for exaltation, clean up -- and an eye to what comes next.

Notes Photo February 11, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: Mubarak No More!!!

Egypt Uprising - Day 18. Tension skyrockets. Mubarak resigns. Joy and celebration reign. Alan Chin: It's a combination of Prague '89 and New Years Eve.

Notes Photo February 10, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: Extreme Shock and Rage. (It Seems Even the Generals Thought Mubarak Would Resign.)

Day 18 in Cairo: It seems the entire world was expecting that Mubarak would step down. In the early hours, Alan sent just three pictures. In their simplicity they track the story of this profound, stunning and ultimately, crushing evening.

Notes Photo February 9, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: The Opposition Recharging

Day 16 in Cairo: From outside the Parliament to inside the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters to Tahrir Square where protest organizers are manning the power strips, the uprising is recharging.

Notes Photo February 8, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: A Crowded Square

Egypt Uprising, Day 15: As the political situation settles into a stalemate, protesters returned in force to Tahrir Square energized by the words of a former Google executive released from detention.

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Alan Chin & David Degner in Cairo: Traffic and Camping

Middle East Uprising, Day 14: The Egyptian government is anxious to let the world know that life is returning to normal. But despite the current calm, the anxiousness is well deserved.

Notes Photo February 6, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: Power In Flux

BagNews contributing photographer Alan Chin's first dispatch from Cairo. How my cameras were impounded, and the mood on the street.

Notes Photo February 3, 2011

Chris Hondros on the Madness in Tahrir Square

The only way I can describe the situation today is that it was totally old school, just people with rocks, sticks and fists. It felt almost historical. It was probably more like how the American Revolution was fought. Or a fight in 683 BC. Just thousands...

Notes Photo February 2, 2011

David Degner in Cairo: No Longer About Freedom of Speech But Life and Death

Reaching photographer David Degner again in Cairo, he provides BagNews readers this photo and account from Tahrir Square.

Notes Photo January 31, 2011

David Degner in Cairo: The End of the Show?

As photographer David Degner explains, his photo in Cairo on Wednesday possibly represents the last instance of the Egyptian government and the police tightly controlling protests, and protest photos, for show.

Notes Photo January 2, 2011

Let the Year in Politics Begin!

I like it for capturing the love affair with spectacle, and the age old passion for pretty pictures, in spite of what the real hell is about.

Notes Photo September 13, 2010

Alan Chin: Not Exactly a Party

As opposed to more critical or outlandish portraits of Tea Party rallies, Alan Chin's photos speak to the emotional underside of the so-called movement.

Notes Photo September 12, 2010

Alan Chin: 9/11 Anniversary Ground Zero Protests; We're Just All(ah) Americans Here

Whereas the media's visual coverage of the Ground Zero protests tend to frame them as a battle of left vs. right, or protectors of freedom of religion vs. defenders of the victims of 9/11, Alan Chin's photos from Lower Manhattan yesterday take a more practical view.

Notes Photo June 27, 2010

Summit Update: Locusts

You know you're not going to keep thousands of angry citizens and anarchists off the streets, so you can take for granted they're going to show up in the news either facing off with, or even being manhandled by the robocops. So okay. But what you can't afford to...

Notes Photo May 31, 2010

Obama's "Crude Awakening"

It's certainly not too late, but the wonky, pervasively tactical, and profoundly deliberate Obama is up against a tangible, highly-visible, publicly distressing, tenacious and unabating crisis that cannot be defeated or buried so much as it has to be shaped and managed.

Notes Photo April 28, 2010

Transforming the Visual Trope of Totalitarianism

John Lucaites looks at the the photos of wheelchair-bound Palestinian photojournalist Osama Silwadi, and the tank as the symbol of the totalitarian state.