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Media Focus Photo April 21, 2017

Girls in Mosul, O’Reilly, Transparency: Our Social Media Roundup

What with all the paranoia and sense of doom in the air, we were attracted to several photos this week that challenge the negativity--or the lens itself and the lack of transparency.

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Militarism Photo April 20, 2017

North Korean Border Photos That Challenge Today’s War Hysteria

What these lighter North Korea photos get at is how much the president, gung-ho politicians and TV talking heads would have us cowering.

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Trump Photo April 18, 2017

What’s in an Easter Egg Roll? The Trumps Unguarded

The rarest opportunity to see Trump and his family in a personal situation, photographers haven't had this kind of prolonged access to him since the inauguration.

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International Focus Photo April 13, 2017

Seeing War For What It Is: Ridiculous

War is not fashion and suffering is not funny. But the photo of this missile is both familiar and odd enough to seem uncanny.

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Business Focus Photo April 12, 2017

United: When the Corporate Abuse is Visible

It is not like corporations don't pummel citizens everyday. The difference is that there are no pictures.

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Media Focus Photo April 10, 2017

Between the Trump and Obama Situation Room Photos

As easily as one sees a parallel between the Obama and Trump situation room photos, the comparison -- like most things Trump under closer inspection -- starts to unravel.

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Twitter/Instagram Roundup Photo April 8, 2017

April Means War: Our Social Media Roundup

April is the cruelest month? Capitol Hill meets Blue Velvet? Even before the U.S. missile strike on Thursday night, the photos of the week had an unsettling edge.

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Eco Watch Photo April 5, 2017

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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9/11 Photo April 3, 2017

On Melania Trump’s Official White House Portrait

Melania Trump, and a White House visual convention.

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9/11 Photo

On Those Re-released FBI 9/11 Photographs

It's a cold practice "dropping" this still-wrenching material this way. These images, like so many others rushed through the news stream, deserve more.

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War & Militarism Photo March 30, 2017

Trump, the Mosul Atrocity, and a GIF That Says it All

How do we come to terms with the Mosul bombing, and a suddenly poisonous and reviled United States of America?

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International Focus Photo March 28, 2017

Protest in Russia, Protest in America

The question is about how familiar Americans are with Russia. And it's about the burden placed on news photos.

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Trump Photo March 26, 2017

TrumpCare Road Rage: Our Weekly Social Media Roundup

Looking back at the GOP's health care collapse, the president's trucker photo op defined the week.

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Militarism Photo March 24, 2017

On the Tillerson Photo at the North Korea DMZ

Simply put, you don't want to be photo bombed, or any other kind of bombed by North Korea.

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Immigration/Migration Photo March 21, 2017

Border Trash and the Human Stakes of Migration

Migrants and bureaucracy co-exist in these photographs. They become a carnival mirror for border enforcement.

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Media Focus Photo March 20, 2017

11 Takeaways on Donald Trump Jr. in Flannel

It's so much easier for the media to do its pandering, or throw a bone, in the style section.

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Twitter/Instagram Roundup Photo March 17, 2017

The New Shape of Things: Our Social Media Roundup

Two months into the Trump era, edges are harder and surfaces are rougher. If green reflected the Obama period, paint today red.

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Trump Photo March 16, 2017

Reading the Trump “First 50 Days” Photo Album

If anything, the photo album brings Trump's guardedness, and the quality and amount of White House visual disclosure, into greater relief.

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