Congrats to the Calbuco Volcano, Crashing the Weekly Menu of Disaster Entertainment
We don’t love the photos of the Calbuco Volcano because the eruption reminds us of a Yellowstone geyser, a giant 4-H winning cauliflower or the perfect backdrop for the monotonous subdivision.
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An Immigrant Walking: On the Stunning NYT Magazine / JR Cover
How can you call an image subtle when it’s 150 feet long, takes up an entire square in NYC and graces the cover of the NYT Magazine?
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On That “Angry" Penguin
Of all the nature and eco images I’ve seen lately, this hit me like a bucket of ice water.
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Mediterranean Crisis: Ecology is About People, Too
Isn't it curious how people tend to think about "ecology" as it relates to plants and air and water and less in terms of humanity and how much we look out for each other.
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On Media Visuals of the Migrant Tragedy in the Mediterranean
These are some images and thoughts that struck me about the visual media coverage of the catastrophe as photos filled galleries and illustrated news stories this morning.
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From Johannesburg: A Photo That Makes Us Stop
Typically, news pictures prompt us to visualize the continuous action in our own mind.
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Santorum's Sweater and the Endless Campaign
Talking irony, it's notable to lose Tunbjörk just at the start of this next presidential marathon. Who knows how the photographer would have approached the selling of the candidates this cycle.
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Kickoff Week: Profiling Hillary (and the Parodists)
The amount of posturing, aggressiveness and and even presumption in the Clinton's political DNA notwithstanding, I found the Hillary '16 kickoff parodies way off-key.
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Visual Politics of Profile Photos: Walter Scott and Michael Slager Side-by-Side
The examples are interesting in illustrating how, through distributed or pick-up photography, the visual media will visually represent and often stereotype by role, circumstance and manner as well as ethnicity and race.
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On the Hillary Announcement and Logo
With the abundant comparisons to FedEx, what's telling right off the bat is that categorically, it's more corporate than populist or even political -- by miles.
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Selfie of the Week — Crossing the Starting Line First
To the extent the selfie is equated with self-absorption, this one goes the extra mile.
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The Drought Doesn't Discriminate by Class or Ethnicity: Balazs Gardi in the Central Valley
After all the sensational and stereotyped coverage of the immigration issue, Gardi's photos parse Mother Nature from Beltway nature.
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Telling Moments From the Video of the White S. Carolina Police Officer Murdering a Black Man
What most stands out for me is Slager checking Scott for a pulse after the second officer just checked for one.
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On Damon Winter's "Divided" Photos of California's Water Crisis
The question is: how much is the photo more static and dread-laden, and how much is it more "fluid"?
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Iran Portraits in the NY Times; "Kissing Kerry" on the Telly in Social Media
What continues to fascinate, looking at major news stories, is the relationship between professional photojournalism and its barefoot cousin, the public Twitter, Instagram or Facebook picture.
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"What's Up" at The Dallas Museum of Art: Sculpture Imitates Life?
With everything in our increasingly technological, innovative and cataclysmic world as fodder for the camera, tell me it's not getting harder to make sense of what's sticking out anymore.
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Loaves and Fishes
It's not that this photograph or this scene from Gaza is unique at all. What so impactful is its resonance this Holy Week, today being Good Friday.
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Lunch Break, Or Worse
In these Chinese industrial towns, perhaps a little shut eye, a little shade and a little cardboard adds up to something completely practical.
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