This week, our social feeds focused on post-Mueller anxiety, more personality politics, and images legitimizing and delegitimizing.
Continue ReadingChristchurch and the resolve in mourning. Young eco activists speaking with their feet, and their posters. That was our visual focus this week.
Continue ReadingA viral picture of singer R. Kelly gesticulating during an interview with CBS’s Gayle King is one of those sensational internet nuggets that feels tailor made for the cultural moment. Loaded with subtexts of gender, race, and media representation, it took less than a day for the photo to...
Continue ReadingTrump, Kim, Cohen. It’s been a great week for pictures that bring us close to the larger than life protagonists on the political stage.
Continue ReadingOur feeds this week dialed in to Michael Shaw’s New York Times Magazine investigative article about an iconic Vietnam War photograph.
Continue ReadingFrom Silicon Valley to the Whitaker hearing, from daily life in the West Bank to the State of the Union, the visuals this week were all about the hands.
Continue ReadingNot since the administration’s panic over the crowd size at the inauguration have we seen such visual damage control.
Continue ReadingThe Queen. The NATO flyover. The Baby Blimp. Strzrok and Russiagate. Kavanaugh/SCOTUS. Manafort. What a visual week.
Continue ReadingBefore the Trump era, you could count on the news to slow down in the summer. Instead, drama, chaos, and hysteria continue as the order of the day.
Continue Reading“Something old and something new” was the theme of the visual week. The royal wedding counted as both--and sadly, so did the latest school massacre.
Continue ReadingThe visual news this week was dominated by the state visit of French President Macron and his wife, Brigitte. Korea, Cosby and Toronto were notable too.
Continue ReadingBetween Zuckerberg, Syria and the latest Trump storms, the news photos this week were more complex than usual.
Continue ReadingNews photos this week seemed to treat issues with more complexity, and there was more focus on Trump's policy than personality. Something is shifting.
Continue ReadingIt was a week in which issues gained weight, or at least, more gravity, and the aggrieved aggressively challenged the status quo.
Continue ReadingStudent walkouts. Trump rapid firing, hiring and proclaiming. Visually, this was a week of large gestures, and demonstrations of all kinds.
Continue ReadingThe aftermath of gun violence, on top of an administration bleeding staff from outside investigations and internal warfare, has created the perfect storm.
Continue ReadingWith the House intel committee releasing a sham memo, and Trump delivered his first official State of the Union, it was a big week for propaganda.
Continue ReadingIn fractured America this week, we had two major stories competing for attention. Let's just say, the outcome wasn't pretty.
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