With Media Fixated on the Terror, a Good Time to Look Again at Everyday Middle East
With western media concentrated on Gaza and Douma, crisis and violence again come to stereotype the Middle East and Islam.
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The Delicate Balance of Style Photos from War-Torn South Sudan
We are encouraged to see the South Sudanese people as something other than the face of a crisis. The risk, though, is to miss the crisis completely.
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On that Rohingya Woman in a Basket
In another instance, a woman fit into a too-small basket might be a visual joke. In this case though, carrying something is a larger communicative act.
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The Mind of Skinheads: What the Racist is Expected to Look Like
The photos suggest that racism can be depicted by signs of gender, sexuality, and class, and if people don’t live or look like that, they must not be.
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On That Stunning Tefillin Photo and the Marks that Remain
The verses inside the tefillin represent an eternal relationship that has already spanned thousands of years. Skin operates on a much shorter, mortal calendar.
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Photography’s Limits in the Age of Trump’s EPA
On the capacities of photography to confront environmental crises. Especially now.
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Tiny Trumps Don’t Shrink the Sexual Power Trip
This Tiny Trump is funny, in essence, because he is smaller than a woman. The joke, ultimately, is at her expense.
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Overshadowed by his Photo: The Afterlives of Omran Daqneesh
Omran's suffering essentially disappeared at the very moment the image of it became visible.
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