Seeing the Same Migrant Tide At Wonderfully Different Scales
What’s unique about these four photos is how they capture the same historic passage through Europe at completely different orientations.
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Country and Class and How We Look at the Migrant Crisis
There is always a risk of seeing refugees or people in flight as poor and needy, especially if the photos focus on their dehumanization.
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Reading the Hillary Clinton House Benghazi Testimony Photos
While the media is swimming in a river of Hillary faces from the House Benghazi hearing, I had some thoughts on some slightly less trafficked photos.
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Illustrating vs Storytelling: Jacquelyn Martin’s Photo of Biden in the Rose Garden
Here, the intensity, and even more so, the complexity of Biden's expression requires no reading in.
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The Visual Promise of Justin Trudeau
We already know Justin Trudeau can make a visual splash. The question is, can he make a difference?
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You Say Amusing Halloween Human Interest Photo?
The New York Times photo people do not put just any picture in its “Picture of the Day” gallery.
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Israel / Palestine: Visual Politics of the Knife
What does it mean to spotlight these huge hunting knives when younger Palestinians are just grabbing whatever is in the kitchen drawer?
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Why it’s Critical to View the Photos Inside the MSF Hospital in Kunduz
The photos are crucial for the opportunity to substantiate what we only know to be true.
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Drawing a Contrast: The Democratic Debate in Las Vegas
As it turned out, what was probably most significant about last night's Democratic debate was its comparison to the Republican campaign.
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Vegas Debate Preview: Hillary Clinton’s Odd Trump Tower Photo-Op
On the eve of 2015's first Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, this Clinton photo op enables the mogul to tower over her party's event, too.
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Welcome to Intifada 3
What surprisingly informative about this photo of Palestinian's at war with Israel in the Occupied Territories is how much they have to work with.
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The Plague of Opposition Lawmakers
There's no way I can look at this without also thinking about our own, incendiary GOP Congresspeople.
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On Norbert Baksa’s “Migrant Chic” Fashion Shoot
What Baksa has done may differ in degree, but not in kind with how his clients and the news media are pushing the edge.
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The Umpqua College Shooting: One More in a Sea of Vigils
In the aftermath of the school shooting, these long view photos of candlelight vigils capture us coming together as well as fading away.
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Reading the New York Times Magazine Trump Balloon Cover
What the media still doesn’t get in singling out Donald Trump for ridicule.
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The Trump “Obama Muslim” Moment the Media Totally Missed
In implicating Trump as a bigot and, by association, the audience as sheep, the photo media missed the most curious moment of this dispiriting campaign.
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Hippie Bashing: New Photos at TIME Keep New Age on the Fringe
Perhaps a threat to consumer culture, these new photos at TIME ridicule yoga, mediation and spiritual practices, framing them as still somehow “far out."
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Our Favorite Obama – Putin UN “War of the Rosés” Picture
While most media highlighted more manly-man U.S.-Russia stand-off pics from the Secretary-General’s UN luncheon, we’re voting for this as our #1.
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