Chatting the Pictures: In One Embrace, All the Feelings of Back-to-School During Covid
As at-risk students return to campus after more than a year on lockdown, we discuss this surprisingly expressive and apolitical photo.
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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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Chatting the Pictures: World Press Photo of The Year, A COVID-19 Hug
World Press Photo of the Year depicts a patron embraced by a nurse at a care home, Sao Paulo, Brazil, through a curtain of clear plastic.
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The Halfs and the Half-Nots
How photojournalism is channeling split-screens and divided societies. Perceptually and morally, the style serves as an apt social mirror.
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Media, Grief, and Three Views of a Tragic Covid Zoom Goodbye
In the case where families and loved ones must say goodbye virtually, the life of that terrible scene is not so simple.
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Heartfelt Photos from Covid’s Crushing Third Wave
Just like in the spring, the focus has turned to Covid, to grief, and to hospital ICUs. However, the photos seem more intimate this time.
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Covid Denial in One Picture
In one photo, this man has become the poster for a government in denial, and everyone who can't be induced or bothered to wear a mask.
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Chatting the Pictures: In Houston Hospital Fighting Covid, A Welcome Hug
With reassurance from national leaders in short supply, this highlight video emphasizes the ongoing threat of the virus and the power of emotional support.
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This Fauci Cover Is Not Cool. It’s Sad.
Poor Dr. Fauci has been reduced to defending his stature by playing the White House's game.
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The Intersection of Racial Violence and the Coronavirus
What the photo speaks to is two different viruses that attack the lungs and kill African Americans.
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The Virus Has Not Been Kind To Our Elders
In photo after photo of the crisis, the aged have become the people trapped behind the glass.
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Are We All in the Spinner?
This photo is part of a series about a Brooklyn family during the coronavirus lockdown. Whatever meaning is behind it, it's something we can all relate to.
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In Lansing COVID Protest, Hate in the Smaller Details
I’ve seen this action in many news photos when police, especially riot cops, become violent with citizens, but never the other way around.
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The Postal Service in the Days of the Virus
The photo reminds us that postal workers are also giving their all on the coronavirus front lines. But a closer look has darker implications for the USPS.
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A Reflection on Trauma, Coronavirus, and 9/11
I never thought I'd see or have to deal with a cultural trauma as profound as 9/11, but the coronavirus has proved me wrong.
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Trump’s COVID-19 Show in One Picture
Set in the White House hallway leading to the press briefing room, it serves as the perfect specimen of a spectacle that unspools for hours each night.
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How Could the Strongest Country in the World Fall So Far?
The grief and the sorrow of these medical workers for their fallen co-workers in the second photo is so raw, they can’t even look at the camera.
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Chatting the Pictures: More Pandemic—New York Harbor; Las Vegas Homeless; NYC ICU
This webcast on the pandemic looks at a symbolic scene in New York Harbor, a troubling Las Vegas shelter image, and an emotional Brooklyn hospital photo.
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