Like Oil and Water
When it comes to the key issues of our time, how much does photography inform and how much does it entertain?
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Editorial Skunk Weed: TIME's Pot Smoking Portraits Misfire
After you've clicked through this fifteen photo slideshow introducing us to Denver pot smokers, can you tell me if you notice anything off about it?
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How Photos Beget Photos: Frida’s Flower Children
If perfectly nice in their display of youth, layer and pattern, what’s more illustrative is the way fresh blooms channel the allure of more exquisite flowers.
Continue ReadingHow New Photos Echo Classic Photos: Frida’s Flower Children
If perfectly nice in their display of youth, layer and pattern, what’s more illustrative is the way fresh blooms channel the allure of more exquisite flowers.
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Seeing the End of America's Homeland Paramilitary Highlight Reel?
On April 21st of last year, the media offered us at least three police assault missions, two in Ferguson and the other in Denver. And not one required calling out the army.
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Cannes Film Festival / Gaza City Film Festival – Juxtaposition of the Day
Red carpet as metaphor.
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Burundi in Crisis, Love the Headdress
I was struck by these portraits by photographers for Reuters, AP and AFP/Getty. Along with their existing captions is a second one I've volunteered to think about how these photos are actually consumed.
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Eye on Police Violence: NYPD Officer Shoots Crazy Man with Hammer
After all the highly-publicized incidents of police brutality and racial profiling in New York and around the country, what's as much under the microscope here are these militarized police departments.
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Muhammad Art Contest: Pamela Geller Rallies the Troops
This show of muscle is reminiscent of the American invasion of Iraq -- as supplemented by the Blackwater group.
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What if I Asked You to Imagine a News Photo from Gaza…
Is this scene what you would have envisioned?
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Militarism and Race as Martin Parr Does the Derby
Beyond the jesting and the field day with hats, these two Parr photos from the Kentucky Derby feel a bit more political than usual.
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Remember that Angry Penguin? Now it's the Cows.
As climate change gains more visibility in the public square, it's interesting to observe how creatures are playing a supporting role.
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On the Viral Photo of the Baltimore Girl and the National Guardsman (and the Portland "Ferguson Hug")
It’s not just cozying up to the man.
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Photographer Natalie Keyssar on Getting Baltimore Wrong
The photos capture a Baltimore that, unlike the stereotypical stories of anger and violence, poverty or neglect, is not one thing.
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There's the Pennant Race, and Then There's Just Race: On the Pics from the Empty Orioles Game
Is it significant, then, in a city that is 63% black, that the photos of fans just beyond the gates aren't all that racially balanced?
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The Looting Selfie and Portraits of Media Bias in Baltimore
What was particular to the photo coverage of protest violence this week was the portraiture. I don't recall citizens so willing to share their venom with news photographers in an actual pose.
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More Absurdity in Baltimore
Maybe the reporter knows something we don't because his reaction to this potentially explosive situation is primarily one of bemusement.
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