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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Remarkably Everyday Photos of a Gender Creative 9-Year-Old with a Passion for Drag
A gender creative 9-year-old who loves drag: photos that portray gender fluidity as its own norm.
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How Climate Change is and isn’t Fueling the U.S. Border Crisis: These Pictures aren’t that Simple
With all the visual attention given to the "caravan," how powerful to see mass migration also depicted by people taking hold of a place.
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Slow Violence, Slow Photography: Chris Gregory’s Portrait of Puerto Rico after Maria
How do you photograph systemic failure? Chris Gregory's Puerto Rico portrait does it through juxtaposition, capturing natural calamity and colonial neglect, both fast and slow.
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On the Border Family Separation Crisis: There are Enough Pictures Now
I know enough to be skeptical that pictures of abuse will call people to action. And yet, that appears to be what is happening right now.
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How John Moore’s Brilliant US-Mexico Border Photos Also Migrate
John Moore’s focus is not so much the US-Mexico border itself but the way the line infiltrates the lives of people in every direction.
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Portraits of Retired Sex Workers: The Gaze Turned the Other Way
Formerly public women evicted from private space, these retired sex workers are now proudly private and challenge us to recognize it.
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Cruel Looking: From Puerto Rico, and Beyond
Showing the bodies of others—be they Puerto Rican children or British Muslims—and stripping them of dignity in full view: this is cruel looking. Knowing it is wrong is part of the plan.
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News Photos: Taking 2 Quakes to Feel for Mexico
It took a second devastating earthquake for visual media to focus more intimately on Mexico's suffering. Should it have?
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Zombie Trumps at the Border: Risk Goes Both Ways
Analyzing the power in Verónica Cárdenas’s photos of immigrants wearing Trump masks.
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Border Trash and the Human Stakes of Migration
Migrants and bureaucracy co-exist in these photographs. They become a carnival mirror for border enforcement.
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The Size Epidemic. It’s Not Just Trump.
President Trump is not the only one who has turned to magnitude in order to visualize the meaning, purpose, and effects of his presidency.
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Take It Down (LEAVE IT UP): On Congress Tiff over Ferguson Painting
Is this art dispute a weird throwback to the culture wars or a sign of things to come?
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What it Means to Look Like a Woman
I fall, again and again, into not seeing breasts in the photographs and so not seeing womanhood.
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Between the Hajj and Hijab: New Picture of Islam for U.S. Audiences
Despite my generally positive reaction to these photo projects, depicting Islamic woman as 'just like us, but in hijab’ is still a limiting picture.
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The Visual Politics of Empty Shelves
Photographs of bare stores and starving families fit too neatly into us and them, imagining whole political systems as economically and morally bankrupt.
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Look of the RNC: Bold Prints, Neckties, and Handguns, of Course
I've been thinking about what it means to dress the part at the Republican National Convention.
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Police Killings: On the Decision Not to Watch
Whether we watch the videos or not, witnessing requires us to acknowledge that racist violence is there to be seen.
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