Wedding Photojournalism: Some of My Best Friends are Masai
If the bride knows the Masai and they are friends, is she still "using" the Masai as accessories? Umm, yes.
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Mindful of Rice, Garner and Brown: Gordon Parks's Two Black Boys and One White Boy
I wish I could tell you how I would have read the picture before. Instead, I made acquaintance with it while immersed in the photos from Ferguson.
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Todd Heisler's Two Scenes from the Eric Garner Non-Indictment
The beauty of the first photo is how it juxtaposes Radio City as a real life Christmas card with the street. It's the season of joy versus another day of open wounds.
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Open and Shut: On that NYT NYPD Body Cam Pic
If the gestures allude to the use of the camera as "open and shut," that's a double-fantasy.
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Thoughts on the Rams "Don't Shoot" Gesture As They Obliterated the Raiders
As a single statement and a preamble to the contest is one thing, but bathed in light and replayed as the capstone to various winning moments is asking that much more.
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Quick Takes: On the "Black Kid/White Cop" Ferguson Protest Hug
Status quo eye candy.
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Black Friday: Ferguson Goes to the Mall
After the post 9/11 admonition to "go shopping," how striking to see the National Guard called in to defend big retail.
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On The Thanksgiving Wire
With the view every-which-way so dark and conflicted, this provided some relief.
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Under Siege, Those Dancing Blacks and Acrobatic Palestinians
If I believed the world had that much more sensitivity, I would think these photos would be recognized and celebrated as empathetic to the largely black residents of Ferguson or to Palestinians and Israeli Arabs.
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Mike Brown as Super Human: Wilson’s Testimony in the Echo of Lichtenstein’s Death Pile Photo
Human intuition being that much a marvel, Andrew's photo came back to me in a way that almost struck me dumb.
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Last Night's "No Indictment" Visual Rage: Ferguson's, Twitter's, Ours & Everybody Else's
This prime time, night time, #Ferguson cable countdown a disgrace and an insult to all Americans
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Mexico's Rage Also Elevates the Camera
What's noteworthy is the role and prominence of the camera across a good many of these shots.
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Prejudice in Ferguson: Zun Lee's White Cop
Suddenly, the agent of the state is more another young man, one out there alone, a little bit vulnerable perhaps.
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Obama's Immigration Reform: Ending Capitol Hill Run Around
In the next days and weeks, there’s going to be a lot of vitriol over why Obama went around Congress to implement immigration reforms by executive order. Tell it to the Dreamers.
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Atlanta Photojournalism's 1st Place Photo and the Afghan Girl
What becomes so powerful about Qadri's shot is the way this woman's head can actually seem to rotate from face forward, to sideways and hidden, as one unpacks the two.
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20 Years of Ebola, and How Photography Has Changed
A photography writer asked me the other day how the photos of the Ebola outbreak this year compared with those from the past two decades. What follows is an excursion with an eye on how news photos have changed.
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Looking Down on "Would-Be Immigrants": An Illustration for our Times
Isn't it interesting how the white folks so naturally claim ascendency by their "higher ground?"
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The Ferguson Bigger Picture: Tokenism at Best
With all eyes on Ferguson to find out if Darren Wilson will be indicted for shooting Michael Brown, what these photos address is perhaps a more intractable problem: the enduring lack of representation and the symbolism in its place.
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