Pop Goes Newsweek: Sexual Harassment Cover Gone Wrong
The Newsweek cover perfectly illustrates the juvenile, adolescent male snickerings that have floated around locker rooms, golf courses and topless bars for years.
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Peking Trump: Our Visual Roundup of the Week
From Trump's yawning Asia trip, to the Democratic election sweep, to still another horrific gun massacre, it's our visual roundup of the week.
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The Best Visual Response to the NYC Truck Attack
With the White House immediately politicizing the New York truck attack, the picture serves as a critical counterweight.
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Indictment Special: Our Visual Roundup of the Week
This week’s visual news was dominated by the first charges brought in the Trump Campaign Russia investigation.
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There’s #TakeAKnee, and There’s Take a Knee
Of course, we were owed a better caption. At the same time, though, it makes for an interesting experiment to see how much we assume.
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Compounding the Weinstein Outrage: How to Visually Cover Sexual Assault
Lurid details and graphic accounts in the Weinstein case do not compensate for the simple fact: there is no adequate imagery to testify to sexual assault.
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Throwing Russian Flags at Trump
Maybe the Trump flag attack would have been more effective six months ago when the Russia story still dominated the news. Otherwise, all it hit was teflon.
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Looking at Trump and Kelly at Arlington Cemetery
Why the New York Times published the photo it did of Trump and Kelly visiting the General's son's grave.
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Michael Shaw Wins the Eugene Smith Fund’s Chapnick Grant
We are pleased to announce that Michael Shaw has been awarded the Eugene Smith Memorial Fund's Chapnick grant on behalf of Reading the Pictures.
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Has Climate Change Killed the California Dream?
California is used to the edge. With the multi-year drought and now these firestorms, however, I'm wondering if climate change has tipped the scale.
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Wildfire, White House, Weinstein & More: Our Roundup of the Week
Another week, another conflagration. Next week, we’re praying for fire containment in California, more power and water in Puerto Rico, and no new disasters.
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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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Las Vegas, Puerto Rico, Catalonia: Our Roundup of the Week
Hurricanes, earthquakes, the threat of nuclear war. Just when you thought another cataclysm couldn't possibly happen, the Las Vegas massacre happened.
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Nick Oza’s Haunting Photo from Inside the Mandalay Hotel
The image channels every photo we've seen of the Mandalay Hotel's exterior since the attack.
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On that Photo of Air Force One Passing the Scene of the Vegas Massacre
Putting Air Force One and the stricken hotel together as objects demands the consideration of one in terms of the other.
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Las Vegas Mass Shooting Photos: What’s Different This Time
What makes the photos from Las Vegas different than those of previous gun massacres? The politics are baked in this time.
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Puerto Rico is Not a Country: Our Roundup of the Week
Our social media roundup this week deals with hurricane politics, Puerto Rico and Trump’s attack on NFL football players protesting racial injustice.
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Stirring NFL Protest Optics: Unity to What End?
As encouraging as the explosion of protest in the NFL may be, let us not lose focus on the purpose of such protest in the first place.
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