Throwing Shade: The Disturbing Visual Fallout From the Special Counsel’s Attack on Biden’s Competency
The Special Counsel’s questioning of Biden's cognitive abilities has unleashed a raft of negative imagery. The media's use of undermining photos risks biasing public perceptions and spreading ageist stereotypes. It's crucial to present more balanced visuals.
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Chatting the Pictures: Beyond Cute
We explain how this Chinese panda at the National Zoo in Washington both offers lessons in photo editing and captures a post-pandemic mood.
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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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Chatting the Pictures: The “Old Timey” Look of the Second Mars Touch Down
As always, NASA plays the excitement to the hilt. And the first image from Perseverance plays it both forward and backward in time.
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Where the Mockery Falls
America has largely confused Trump's mockery of democracy with the mocking of Trump himself. The Europeans haven't had such a problem.
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Capitol Artwork a Symbolic Participant in Trump White Supremacist Riot
While the rioters who invaded the Capitol amplified the nation's history of white supremacy, that history was already hanging on the walls behind them.
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Chatting the Pictures: Kamala VP Nod Gets Special Front Page Treatment
In this highlight video, we discuss the "singularity" of the Harris layout. We also consider the scale in terms of the cultural and personal breakthrough.
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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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Death From Covid and the Western Gaze
This photo from Rio provides a view of poverty and the brutal outcome of the coronavirus that just isn't seen in America.
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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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White House Flickr Exposes Trump’s Oval Office Coronavirus Speech
While the crisis calls for selflessness, what the photos reveal is an obsession with the camera, and Trump acting the role of first responder.
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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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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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The Visual Bubble: White House Media Affairs Undoes a Breakfast
Not since the administration’s panic over the crowd size at the inauguration have we seen such visual damage control.
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From the Olympics to Singapore: Kim Jong Un’s Remarkable Visual Makeover
Kim Jong Un has proved himself a master at softening his media image. His summit with Donald Trump in Singapore was just the latest example.
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With Media Fixated on the Terror, a Good Time to Look Again at Everyday Middle East
With western media concentrated on Gaza and Douma, crisis and violence again come to stereotype the Middle East and Islam.
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Here’s Looking at You Kid: Mark Zuckerberg’s Elusive DC Testimony
As much as his appearance before Congress was a visual sensation, Zuckerberg was not going to be pinned down legally, rhetorically or photographically.
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The Meaning of Emma in the Visual War on Parkland’s Survivor Activists
Emma has become the visual trademark of political dissent and generational change, a contemporary Rosie the Riveter.
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