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Alan Chin Photo June 16, 2010

Alan Chin: Creeping Doom

Alan Chin in Louisiana covering the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Alan Chin Photo May 30, 2010

Alan Chin: Dover Air Force Base

Focus on the War: Photographer Alan Chin at Dover Air Force Base

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BAGannouncements Photo April 19, 2010

Welcome to BagNewsOriginals!

Welcome to BagNewsOriginals! Our mission is to present photographs and stories that you haven’t seen elsewhere before, or seen in this way: original content from photographers across America and around the world. Over the past six years, the BAG’s unique perspectives on published images have hopefully changed the way...

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Alan Chin Photo October 3, 2009

Photographer Alan Chin's Letter from China

Photographer Alan Chin on the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Communist revolution.

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Alan Chin Photo July 7, 2009

Our Man in Xinjiang

BAGnewsNotes contributer Alan Chin filed these photos and this brief report this afternoon on the violence in Xinjiang:

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Originals Photo June 27, 2009

Parisian Nights

BAGnewsNotes contributer Zoriah Miller recently spent some time on the streets of Paris with homeless refugees from Afghanistan, many of whom served as translators for the U.S. military.

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Alan Chin Photo June 4, 2009

Our Man In Tiananmen: Then and Now (Or: It's A Hell Of A Lot Better Using An Umbrella Than A Machine Gun)

Some comments from contributer Alan Chin, who made these photographs in Tienamin Square yesterday on the twenty-year anniversary of the famous massacre.

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Alan Chin Photo January 21, 2009

Alan Chin From The Inauguration: First Draft Of History

What I find wonderful about Alan Chin's photos from the inauguration is how they seem to inject historical distance. At the same time the public is imbued with the freshness, energy, confidence, talent and vision of the Obama presidency, these images seem to ask: How will this week stand...

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Alan Chin Photo November 5, 2008

Our Man In Grant Park: At The Turn

In advance of an Alan Chin slide show of last night's historic Obama victory, we start you off with this. The shot was taken at the Hilton at the party hosted by Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.

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Alan Chin Photo October 30, 2008

Our Man In Pennsylvania – Inside and Outside Two Rallies

Here's Alan Chin's finest, shot Tuesday at two different rallies, the McCain/Palin affair in Hershey and Palin's appearance in Shippensburg.

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Alan Chin Photo October 29, 2008

Our Man In Pennsylvania – At the Rally

Alan Chin has some really curious shots from the McCain/Palin rally in Hershey and also Palin's rally in Shippensburg. I'll let you start off with this one.

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Alan Chin Photo October 28, 2008

Our Man In Pennsylvania

I'm awed, but not an ounce surprised by the grand canyon-like gap between these personal reports and the experience of looking at similar images through the intensely-amped and all too controversy- or just poll-obsessed media sphere.... I what I also see -- although the white-corporate media isn't all that...

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Alan Chin Photo October 26, 2008

The Latest From Alan Chin: Allentown, PA.

In spending part of the election's final days capturing the atmosphere, Alan passed on this single photo of a campaign volunteer.

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Alan Chin Photo October 16, 2008

On Debate Night, Alan Chin Checks In From Texas

Debate coverage: Alan Chin Checks In From Texas

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Alan Chin Photo January 31, 2008

John Edwards: Parting View

Yesterday, I had my say on the Edwards withdrawal.  Today though, I'd like to share this shot from Alan Chin taken at the announcement in New Orleans on Tuesday.

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Alan Chin Photo January 7, 2008

Our Man In New Hampshire #4: BarackOMania

In essence, it only takes just two pictures to tell the New Hampshire Obama story.

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Our Man In New Hampshire #3: McCain/Lieberman '08

This is the third in a series of campaign dispatches by BNN Contributer Alan Chin from New Hampshire.  This post focuses on John McCain and his 100 year Iraq war.

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Alan Chin Photo September 12, 2007

September 11, 2007

Photographer Alan Chin, who captured the WTC attack six years ago, returned again yesterday to observe the mood around the Ground Zero site.

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