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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News Photos as Military Promo: Prepping for the Next Good War?
This New York Times photo feature is less about military propaganda than it is about selling the next "good war."
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More Drama, Less Reality: The Case for Fake War Photography
The staying power of US war culture depends on a citizenry that keeps its distance from actual warfare.
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Meta of the Military Photography Awards: You’re Either Flying High or Laid Low
While these two photographs aren't the only ones recognized as award winners, their place at the top does offer some insight into a limited range of human experience.
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David Frum Accuses NYT and Reuters of Staging Gaza Hospital Photos (GRAPHIC)
Certainly, these organizations have better uses of their time right now -- including, keeping their photographers alive while adhering to ethical standards -- without having to contend with libelous charges being leveled on impulse.
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The Dysfunctional Guitar: More on the Reuters Syria Photo Controversy
In this atmosphere of doubt, it's worthwhile to consider these images involving the presence of this musical instrument in multiple images. What really convinced me to share them publicly, though, was the confusing and misdirected explanation I received from Reuters after having contacted them.
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Were the Reuters "Boy in a Syrian Bomb Factory" Photos Staged?
We hope that this post might contribute to a thoughtful, open and persistent examination about the truth behind this story as well as the issues surrounding how photos in conflict zones can be procured today.
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