Crucial Elements of the Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests Overlooked by the Mainstream
Education, negotiation, militarism, human rights. Free Palestine campus protests have stood for much more than they have been credited for.
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The Feast of the Arms Industry, and More Eye Candy
Nikita Teryoshin’s photos from arms fairs satirize invisible weapon bazaars. In our latest video, we analyze his delicious photos and contrast them with how the media treats military hardware imagery. By Michael Shaw Canapés and Cruise Missiles? Petits fours meet purveyors of war? Before asking what to make of...
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Chatting the Pictures: The Feast of the Arms Industry
We analyze Nikita Teryoshin’s photos lampooning arms expos while applauding the rare window into the massive weapons marketplace.
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Chatting the Pictures: Mourning Embrace in a Gaza Hospital
We discuss the photo's anonymity and intimacy, as well as other images of the woman and child to personalize the interconnection of grief and loss.
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Chatting the Pictures: On a Gaza Playground, Seized by the Peril of Fighter Jets
The photo, timeless as it is specific, embodies the instinctual reactions, sustained fear, and psychic harm to children lacking true refuge.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Israeli Hostage Poster
Analyzing the posters of abducted Israelis, we examine their format, 9/11 parallels, wide circulation, and how they inform Israeli unity.
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The Cult Of Trump In Its Last Throes
In the assault on the Capitol, the distinction between faith, nation, and godhead finally and completely broke down.
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The Disappearing Island: Censorship at Guantánamo Bay
How much censorship colors a NY Times Guantánamo Bay photo essay on censorship.
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Photography Challenge: Straddling Female Stereotypes as Women Become Marines
How well does Lynsey Addario’s New York Times boot camp story stand up in the age of #MeToo?
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Chatting the Pictures: Yemen Starvation Photos, Gaza Slingshot, Black Lives Matter Kid in a Tree
This week, Chatting the Pictures, our 20-minute webcast analyzing news photos, looks at key pictures of the year from Yemen, Gaza, and Washington D.C.
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Between Jerusalem, Gaza and the Media: The Tear Gas Spectacular
What stokes the media as effectively as it fuels insurgency and state power--especially in the Trump era? Simply put, it's the fireworks.
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Beyond Compassion: On Photos of Syrian Photographer Rescuing Child
Visual evidence of Aleppo's horrors has not produced compassion fatigue but doubt in the ability to intervene. That is what the rescue photos demonstrate.
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Trump, the Mosul Atrocity, and a GIF That Says it All
How do we come to terms with the Mosul bombing, and a suddenly poisonous and reviled United States of America?
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On the Photos of the Russian Ambassador’s Assassination in Ankara: Our Tweet Thread
The overlap between online and social media, and war and terror is so complex, it's hard to make sense of what we're looking at.
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Omran and Alan: The Limits of the Photo of the Wounded Aleppo Boy
Ultimately, and in contrast to the Alan Kurdi wake-up call, the photograph of Omran, the wounded Syrian boy in the ambulance, is a rescue fantasy.
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The Brussels Attack: Between Two Cell Phone Photos of the Same Scene
What stood out from the terror attack in Brussels is how two slightly different cell phone photos became defining images of the event.
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World Press Photo Winners: Mary F. Calvert and Military Sexual Assault
I wanted to focus on the more political side of Mary F. Calvert’s award-winning photo project on women raped or sexually assaulted while serving in the U.S. military.
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War/No War. Reading Spencer Platt’s NY Veterans Day Parade Photos
These photos surface uncomfortable realities about an America (still) at war.
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