Brian Palmer: Why Does This Old Cemetery Matter?
This is the 2nd post in a series with photographer Brian Palmer on the South and an abandoned African-American cemetery near Richmond known as East End.
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From a New Hampshire Primary Photography Workshop
This is the second of two posts based on a pair of campaign workshops held by documentary photographer, Jeff Jacobson.
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From an Iowa Caucus Photography Workshop
When we heard documentary photographer Jeff Jacobson was giving workshops during the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, we were intrigued.
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Sarah Stacke: Picturing Family in Manenberg
Perhaps it is in the very places where challenges abound, such as Manenberg, where family photo albums can hold the most power to shape identity and collective memory.
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Sarah Stacke: Proof of Existence in Manenberg
When I see Ashwin at home at last surrounded by family and friends who are grieving, laughing, comforting –– all the emotions that one navigates with the pain of loss –– a sliver of peace is unexpectedly delivered.
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Light Over Time: Picturing Appalachia — by Roger May
Light’s early Appalachia work is important in that it was intended to shed light on labor corruption and poor working conditions of miners in the region. My work in general is not about reacting to political unrest, but rather waiting, looking, listening to quieter moments while not shying away...
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On Texas Muslim Capitol Day: Photos by Nina Berman from Austin
The hostility of anti-Muslim protesters on the seventh annual Texas Muslim Capitol Day pales in comparison to the recognition and appreciation of the different cultural and religious communities among us.
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Sarah Stacke's "Love From Manenberg": Making Strong Bones
Many media outlets are not addressing gang violence in the Flats because of oversaturation and reader fatigue. In the grand scheme of South Africa, violence in the Flats is overlooked by much of the population, politicians included.
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Sarah Stacke: Mothers of Manenberg
This is the second installment in an ongoing series by photographer Sarah Stacke about this suburb of Cape Town and her relationships there.
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Sarah Stacke: Love From Manenberg
This is the first installment in an ongoing series by photographer Sarah Stacke about this suburb of Cape Town and her relationships there.
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David Schalliol from Chicago: On the South Side, as in Detroit, Rumblings of Something Different
I continue to seek the right balance between the challenges that plague the community and the life that goes on in response to – or in spite of – them. After all, it is difficult to make sense of what we observe without falling back on our preconceived...
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David Degner on Egypt’s Telltale Election: The Result of a Hard, Sad and Bloody Process
If this bus was a violation of the "no-campaigning during voting" rules, it didn't matter.
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David Degner from Cairo: On the Sissi Election and Egypt Under the Boot
If there is cheering and yelling at events like this, my sense is that most Egyptians are quietly resigned. It’s so predictable from here out. Egyptians have lost their voice again.
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James Whitlow Delano – Fifth Dispatch: Slash Cameroon’s Rainforest and Lose Ancestor’s Souls
In this longread and photojournal for BagNews Originals, photographer James Whitlow Delano details the impact of multinational logging and palm oil operations on the people and rainforest of Cameroon.
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Stacy Kranitz: The Rape of Appalachia
I find Caudill’s complicated legacy a reminder that there is a lot more to the evolution of a people than the victimhood that has been placed upon them.
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David Schalliol from Chicago: After the Projects, New (Physical and Emotional) Landscapes
The work is different now: it’s less a need to understand life in a place than to understand how life changes when one leaves a place with so many attachments.
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James Whitlow Delano – Fourth Dispatch: My Odyssey to Learn What Gold Wreaked on Suriname
In this longread and photojournal for BagNews Originals, photographer James Whitlow Delano chronicles the influx of foreigners, the ecological toxification and the adverse cultural effects of intensive mining in Suriname.
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Rita Leistner: Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan #3 – The Life after Death of Skeuomorphism
For the first time in history we are making photography and writing on the very same tool. The affected and algorithmic images of the smartphone draw attention to the devices they are made on, and for me, at least, have opened a portal between image and text that I...
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