Haunting for the Beauty, or the Stalking?
Beauty and subtlety distracts from the reality of asylum seekers in this news photos from the US/Mexico border.
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Chatting the Pictures: A Telling Photo of a Cold Stricken Texas and the Heat About a Blackout
Blackout photos got Texans steaming after a historic freeze knocked out heat, power, and water. This picture proves telling in every detail.
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Record Texas Freeze and a Photo of the Times
More and more, news photographs are capturing compound crises. Combining climate and Covid, this scene is particularly arresting.
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Global Heating and Fire: California Jumps the Gap
It's not just a bad fire season. These photos both symbolize and demonstrate how California has crossed a critical climate threshold.
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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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The Elbow Move
There will be plenty of memories from the coronavirus crisis. But our bodies, if pray we stay well, will best remember the basic contortions.
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About Feeling Crazy Right Now
The photo isn't about eccentricity, it's about mental health. And it's about the symptoms we are all experiencing from the virus these days.
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What Should and Shouldn’t We Be Seeing?
This virus photo from a Belgium hospital has a "sensitive material" warning. But perhaps it's necessary to see--and not just for the obvious reason.
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Virus Meets Cat Gramming
As the coronavirus grips Washington and the nation, this cat photo by Alex Wroblewski is not just sweet. It offers a dose of emotional immunity.
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As the Coronavirus Shutters Broadway
Photographers are using their symbolic gifts to process the loss of normality from the coronavirus. Here, the focus is on Broadway.
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Drawing on Contagion
This drawing by a young girl in Italy is a poignant illustration of the threat of coronavirus, and also the health of the planet. ⠀
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Tokyo 2020, Or Not
In terms of what photographs do, this split view of tourists above and the stadium below projects us five months into the Olympic future.
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The Grieving Woman at the Ethiopian Airlines Crash Site, and the Western Gaze
The expression of grief is so intense, I cannot forget it. At the same, however, I feel challenged looking at the photo as a westerner.
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Slow Violence, Slow Photography: Chris Gregory’s Portrait of Puerto Rico after Maria
How do you photograph systemic failure? Chris Gregory's Puerto Rico portrait does it through juxtaposition, capturing natural calamity and colonial neglect, both fast and slow.
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What We’re Looking At: Hurricanes Michael and Khashoggi
Visual news has been dominated by two hurricanes lately. Here are selected photos with commentary.
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Has Climate Change Killed the California Dream?
California is used to the edge. With the multi-year drought and now these firestorms, however, I'm wondering if climate change has tipped the scale.
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Las Vegas, Puerto Rico, Catalonia: Our Roundup of the Week
Hurricanes, earthquakes, the threat of nuclear war. Just when you thought another cataclysm couldn't possibly happen, the Las Vegas massacre happened.
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News Photos: Taking 2 Quakes to Feel for Mexico
It took a second devastating earthquake for visual media to focus more intimately on Mexico's suffering. Should it have?
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