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Notes Photo March 29, 2019

Mulling on Mueller, Mo’ Beto, and So Much Posterizing: Our Social Week

This week, our social feeds focused on post-Mueller anxiety, more personality politics, and images legitimizing and delegitimizing.

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Notes Photo March 22, 2019

Compassionate Christchurch, Youthful Sincerity of the Climate Strike: Our Social Week

Christchurch and the resolve in mourning. Young eco activists speaking with their feet, and their posters. That was our visual focus this week.

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Notes Photo March 8, 2019

Diatribe of the Accused, Silence for the Abused: Our Social Week

A viral picture of singer R. Kelly gesticulating during an interview with CBS’s Gayle King is one of those sensational internet nuggets that feels tailor made for the cultural moment. Loaded with subtexts of gender, race, and media representation, it took less than a day for the photo to...

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Notes Photo March 2, 2019

Figures Larger than Life: Our Social Week

Trump, Kim, Cohen. It’s been a great week for pictures that bring us close to the larger than life protagonists on the political stage.

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Notes Photo February 23, 2019

Vietnam to South Lawn, Vatican to Award Season: Our Social Week

Our feeds this week dialed in to Michael Shaw’s New York Times Magazine investigative article about an iconic Vietnam War photograph.

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Notes Photo February 8, 2019

All in the Hands: Our Visual Roundup of the Week

From Silicon Valley to the Whitaker hearing, from daily life in the West Bank to the State of the Union, the visuals this week were all about the hands.

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Notes Photo August 5, 2018

The Visual Bubble: White House Media Affairs Undoes a Breakfast

Not since the administration’s panic over the crowd size at the inauguration have we seen such visual damage control.

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Notes Photo July 15, 2018

From SCOTUS to NATO, the Pix Were Lit: Our Visual Roundup of the Week

The Queen. The NATO flyover. The Baby Blimp. Strzrok and Russiagate. Kavanaugh/SCOTUS. Manafort. What a visual week.

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Notes Photo June 15, 2018

Immigration Hysteria and a Show Summit: Our Visual Roundup of the Week

Before the Trump era, you could count on the news to slow down in the summer. Instead, drama, chaos, and hysteria continue as the order of the day.

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Notes Photo May 25, 2018

Royals, Massacres and the Korea Dance: Our Visual Roundup of the Week

 “Something old and something new” was the theme of the visual week. The royal wedding counted as both--and sadly, so did the latest school massacre.

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Notes Photo April 28, 2018

French Invasion: Our Visual Roundup of the Week

The visual news this week was dominated by the state visit of French President Macron and his wife, Brigitte. Korea, Cosby and Toronto were notable too.

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Notes Photo April 14, 2018

Between Zuckerberg, Trump/Cohen and Syria — Our Visual Roundup of the Week

Between Zuckerberg, Syria and the latest Trump storms, the news photos this week were more complex than usual.

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Notes Photo April 8, 2018

Less Teflon, More Substance: Our Visual Roundup of the Week

News photos this week seemed to treat issues with more complexity, and there was more focus on Trump's policy than personality. Something is shifting.

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Notes Photo March 30, 2018

Face Offs Everywhere: Our Visual Roundup of the Week

It was a week in which issues gained weight, or at least, more gravity, and the aggrieved aggressively challenged the status quo.

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Notes Photo March 16, 2018

Walk Outs and Throw Downs – Our Visual Roundup of the Week

Student walkouts. Trump rapid firing, hiring and proclaiming. Visually, this was a week of large gestures, and demonstrations of all kinds.

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Notes Photo March 2, 2018

High Caliber Meltdown: Our Visual Roundup of the Week

The aftermath of gun violence, on top of an administration bleeding staff from outside investigations and internal warfare, has created the perfect storm.

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Notes Photo February 2, 2018

State of the Memo: Our Visual Roundup of the Week

With the House intel committee releasing a sham memo, and Trump delivered his first official State of the Union, it was a big week for propaganda.

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Notes Photo January 25, 2018

Women’s March Sizzles, Shutdown Fizzles: Our Visual Roundup of the Week

In fractured America this week, we had two major stories competing for attention. Let's just say, the outcome wasn't pretty.

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