Chatting the Pictures: Libya’s Climate-Fueled Flood at Epic Scale
With an expert perspective, this photo vividly conveys the immense scale of the climate-supercharged flooding in Libya.
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Scenes from Work as Photographers Increasingly Caught Up in the Protests They Cover
These Instagram photos of Colombian news photographer Luis Robayo speak to the all-consuming challenge of covering protests today.
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Figure and Ground
We rarely discuss it this formally, but our analysis of important news photos always considers the relationship between figure and ground.
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Chatting the Pictures: Trump Bloomberg Golf Photo; Xi Masked; Elizabeth Warren’s Glass Ceiling
This week, we look at Trump and Bloomberg's gold game, China's President Xi and the coronavirus, and Elizabeth Warren campaigning.
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Turkey’s Syria Invasion and Visual Media Bias
Media bias usually has to do with what's in the frame--not whether there is one. Turkey's Syria invasion is an example of bias for only showing one side.
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The Larger Reason China Wants to Strip Hong Kong Protesters of their Masks
By banning Hong Kong protesters from wearing face masks, China is also hoping to undermine the visual and the moral power of these disguises.
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Apartheid’s Legacy From Here: The Photo That Struck Me Most At Photoville
I'm sure this scene is more nuanced in South Africa. But to see a photo in America of black kids eyeballing a white kid is exceedingly rare.
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Religious Persecution Survivors on the Oval Stage
We examine the political agenda behind President Trump’s Oval Office meeting with 27 survivors of religious persecution from around the world.
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Mexican Forces Give Their All for the Cameras to Placate Trump
With Trump on their backs over immigration deal, Mexico put the "show" in "show of force" at its southern border.
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How Climate Change is and isn’t Fueling the U.S. Border Crisis: These Pictures aren’t that Simple
With all the visual attention given to the "caravan," how powerful to see mass migration also depicted by people taking hold of a place.
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The Meaning of Roseanne Barr in Jerusalem
How Hollywood star power negotiates a career fallout by heading to the Holy Land.
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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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Kill Them with Kindness: Leading up to the Lie Maduro Burned US Aid Trucks
The lie has been disproven. But what is missing from the bridge story is the role the US and USAID played in stoking this incident in the first place.
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Why Wall Breaching Photos Don’t Capture the Border Crossing Story
These photos remind us that immigrants are not an organized caravan or an impending wave of bodies. They are mostly alone, navigating one step at a time.
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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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Gangster Mindset: Pompeo Gets Owned on North Korea Visit
Taken during Mike Pompeo's empty visit to North Korea last week, Andrew Harnik's Instagram photo is pretty clever.
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How John Moore’s Brilliant US-Mexico Border Photos Also Migrate
John Moore’s focus is not so much the US-Mexico border itself but the way the line infiltrates the lives of people in every direction.
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Portraits of Retired Sex Workers: The Gaze Turned the Other Way
Formerly public women evicted from private space, these retired sex workers are now proudly private and challenge us to recognize it.
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