How A Confederate Flag Can Be Meaningless
How is it that the Confederate flag symbol could leave people ... feeling nothing?
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Between an Electrifying World Cup and Bodies on the Ground: Mario Tama in Brazil
What Mario has done this deep into the tournament, and with Team Brazil riding high, is to graft together the social and political with the sport and the spectacle.
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World Cup Optics: Mario Tama on Brazil Vs. Brazil
Instead of the social stories functioning as due diligence, as preamble and warm up act, what if the coverage over the next four weeks did simultaneous justice to both the thrilling sports spectacle and the social cost?
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Trayvon Through Another Black Man-Child: Three Views From Photographer Mario Tama
Likely close in age to the eleven-year-old Tayvon Martin in the widely adopted photo of the dead seventeen-year-old, these photos of Seminole County resident Jayden Jackson by Getty photographer Mario Tama draw out different dimensions of the tragedy.
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Wall Street Occupation: Looking Down on Mr. Tambourine Man
To the surprise of just about everyone now, however, what both sides are realizing, more so with each passing day, is how much each has skin in the game.
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Our 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Portrait … Going the Other Way
Thankfully, friend and brilliant photographer, Mario Tama, sent me this a couple days ago, a photo unique out of the 9/11-remembrance constellation, if for one thing, by simply managing not to take itself too seriously.
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Mario Tama: Spicy Tuna, Giant Clam and Radiation Roll
This photo from a N.Y. sushi restaurant takes on a different sense given that the ocean off Japan will likely soon up its glow, and those domestic nuke plants we've been rock-bottom assured are bulletproof might not be.
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The Haiti Earthquake +1
Mario Tama has been commemorating ritual anniversaries by returning to specific places and re-photographing scenes he had captured before. On this one year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, the images quietly express the overarching present reality of an event that so galvanized the world a year ago.
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Mario Tama: Dan Choi
With DADT still ambiguous at best, there's more in play here than just a pleased Dan Choi after he, to his surprise, was able to re-enlist.
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Katrina: Faces Of The Storm
The day of the anniversary itself: Alan Chin, Stanley Greene, Andy Levin, and Mario Tama in New Orleans.
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Katrina: Five Years Passing
Lee Celano, Alan Chin, and Mario Tama: Eyes on Katrina, Five Years Passing
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School Skirmish: "Oh Brother" Vs. "Big Brother"
I'm rather proud of this image, given how the Administration deflected the latest wingnut flak.
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Woodstock's 40th. (Righteous!)
The Woodstock 40-year anniversary music festival offers the chance for reflection, nostalgia... and time out from the haters.
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Geither Watch: Tim 2.0
After a bit of a rocky start, the Tim Geithner reboot hits pay dirt.
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The Horror
Even if it's just an odd glance, the fact Fritz looks aghast -- as well as sealed in the hybrid -- lets me feel a major horror went down today.
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BagNewsSalon: Since Katrina with Mario Tama
Looking Since the Storm A BAGnewsNotes Salon featuring Getty Photographer Mario Tama Sunday, April 5, 2009 5:00 - 6:30 pm PST, 8:00-9:30 pm EST
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Reflecting On The Meltdown
In this photo from yesterday's anti-capitalist demonstration in New York's financial district, Getty photographer Mario Tama captures America's split between anger and denial and haves and have nots.
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Ground Zero 2009
I find this image from Mario Tama particularly fitting given Obama's crack down today on executives whose firms have been scoring bail-out dollars.
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