Alan Chin on the Tunisia-Libya Border: A Hundred Miles
From the Tunisian border to Tripoli, it is only a hundred miles along the Mediterranean coast highway. At any moment, we journalists gathered here calculate, the revolution will reach this border and we'll be able to enter. But when or how that might happen, we can only speculate.
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Alan Chin in Cairo: Getting My Cameras Back
Censorship through confiscating equipment: The corrosion and absurdity of Egypt's bureaucracy, a small window onto how the Mubarek regime kept people under control.
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Alan Chin in Cairo: "Yesterday I was a Demonstrator. Today I Build Egypt"
As celebration of Mubarek's downfall continues into a second day and night, its a time for exaltation, clean up -- and an eye to what comes next.
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Alan Chin in Cairo: Mubarak No More!!!
Egypt Uprising - Day 18. Tension skyrockets. Mubarak resigns. Joy and celebration reign. Alan Chin: It's a combination of Prague '89 and New Years Eve.
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Alan Chin in Cairo: Extreme Shock and Rage. (It Seems Even the Generals Thought Mubarak Would Resign.)
Day 18 in Cairo: It seems the entire world was expecting that Mubarak would step down. In the early hours, Alan sent just three pictures. In their simplicity they track the story of this profound, stunning and ultimately, crushing evening.
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Alan Chin in Cairo: The Opposition Recharging
Day 16 in Cairo: From outside the Parliament to inside the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters to Tahrir Square where protest organizers are manning the power strips, the uprising is recharging.
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Alan Chin in Cairo: A Crowded Square
Egypt Uprising, Day 15: As the political situation settles into a stalemate, protesters returned in force to Tahrir Square energized by the words of a former Google executive released from detention.
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Alan Chin & David Degner in Cairo: Traffic and Camping
Middle East Uprising, Day 14: The Egyptian government is anxious to let the world know that life is returning to normal. But despite the current calm, the anxiousness is well deserved.
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Alan Chin in Cairo: Power In Flux
BagNews contributing photographer Alan Chin's first dispatch from Cairo. How my cameras were impounded, and the mood on the street.
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Alan Chin: Merry Christmas! Bonfires All Along The River
Christmas Eve: Bonfires light the way for Father Christmas along the Mississippi River
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Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Individual Wars
Jeremy Lange's fourth post from the War At Home: The individual experiences of war.
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Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Surge Babies
Jeremy Lange's third post from the War At Home: Death in uniform, surge babies, and cupcakes.
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Alan Chin: Not Exactly a Party
As opposed to more critical or outlandish portraits of Tea Party rallies, Alan Chin's photos speak to the emotional underside of the so-called movement.
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Alan Chin: Black Tea
What do we think when we see a Black Tea Party Member? We've got some questions:
Continue ReadingAlan Chin: 9/11 Anniversary Ground Zero Protests; We're Just All(ah) Americans Here
Whereas the media's visual coverage of the Ground Zero protests tend to frame them as a battle of left vs. right, or protectors of freedom of religion vs. defenders of the victims of 9/11, Alan Chin's photos from Lower Manhattan yesterday take a more practical view.
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Alan Chin: Compensation and Loss
Photographer Alan Chin in New Orleans: Ken Feinberg takes over the compensation claims process for the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Continue ReadingJuly 4th: Dover and New York
The Fourth of July in America: Scenes from Dover and New York
Continue ReadingAlan Chin: The Ocean On Fire
Alan Chin flying over the Gulf Oil Spill on board a BP helicopter.
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