From Guerrilla to Boy Band: The Paris Ringleader and ISIS Photo Tactics
The discrepant photos of Abdelhamid not only demonstrate their marketing prowess, but how easily ISIS can tweak the west.
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We Can Now Safely Say it’s the Weirdest Presidential Campaign Ever
Politicians aren’t born, they’re collaged. Thoughts on Jeff Jacobson's odd Rubio photo from New Hampshire.
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War/No War. Reading Spencer Platt’s NY Veterans Day Parade Photos
These photos surface uncomfortable realities about an America (still) at war.
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Telltale Screenshots from U. of Missouri
I offer these screen shots for the way they speak to the complicated mess surrounding visual access and photo coverage of news events today.
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Ben Carson on the Bubble: Scott Olson’s “Red Light” Photo from Iowa
If Carson continues to insist that he’s beyond reproach, you can already sense how many faces in the audience he’s going to alienate.
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The Art of the Newswire Photo
Newswire photos represent one of the most unheeded art forms ever. At the same time, the expressive nature of these images has never been higher.
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The Season’s Most Cynical Political Costume Photo
Of course, it's not outside the realm of possibility the family of this kid understood how xenophobic Trump is.
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Skid Row Halloween
Where are the critical details as the kids are seen to be either parading, or trick-or-treating past rows of people living in tents or boxes?
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Ashley Gilbertson’s “New Europeans”: A More Subtle Migrant Exodus
This photo of migrant children on the Macedonia/Greece border uniquely captures the more daily highs and lows of this historic period.
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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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