The Season’s Most Cynical Political Costume Photo
Of course, it's not outside the realm of possibility the family of this kid understood how xenophobic Trump is.
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Skid Row Halloween
Where are the critical details as the kids are seen to be either parading, or trick-or-treating past rows of people living in tents or boxes?
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In Spite of Cancer Link, Meat Never Looked So Good
We aren’t invited to question how the American food industry prepares meat. According to the imagery, it's the public's willpower that is on the hook.
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Ashley Gilbertson’s “New Europeans”: A More Subtle Migrant Exodus
This photo of migrant children on the Macedonia/Greece border uniquely captures the more daily highs and lows of this historic period.
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Seeing the Same Migrant Tide At Wonderfully Different Scales
What’s unique about these four photos is how they capture the same historic passage through Europe at completely different orientations.
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Country and Class and How We Look at the Migrant Crisis
There is always a risk of seeing refugees or people in flight as poor and needy, especially if the photos focus on their dehumanization.
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Reading the Hillary Clinton House Benghazi Testimony Photos
While the media is swimming in a river of Hillary faces from the House Benghazi hearing, I had some thoughts on some slightly less trafficked photos.
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Illustrating vs Storytelling: Jacquelyn Martin’s Photo of Biden in the Rose Garden
Here, the intensity, and even more so, the complexity of Biden's expression requires no reading in.
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Sarah Stacke: Picturing Family in Manenberg
Perhaps it is in the very places where challenges abound, such as Manenberg, where family photo albums can hold the most power to shape identity and collective memory.
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The Visual Promise of Justin Trudeau
We already know Justin Trudeau can make a visual splash. The question is, can he make a difference?
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You Say Amusing Halloween Human Interest Photo?
The New York Times photo people do not put just any picture in its “Picture of the Day” gallery.
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Israel / Palestine: Visual Politics of the Knife
What does it mean to spotlight these huge hunting knives when younger Palestinians are just grabbing whatever is in the kitchen drawer?
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Radical Feminists Disrupt Suffragette Premier; Stars Approve
Why would radical feminists disrupt the premiere of a film celebrating radical feminism? And more significantly, did the optics work?
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Why it’s Critical to View the Photos Inside the MSF Hospital in Kunduz
The photos are crucial for the opportunity to substantiate what we only know to be true.
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Drawing a Contrast: The Democratic Debate in Las Vegas
As it turned out, what was probably most significant about last night's Democratic debate was its comparison to the Republican campaign.
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Vegas Debate Preview: Hillary Clinton’s Odd Trump Tower Photo-Op
On the eve of 2015's first Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, this Clinton photo op enables the mogul to tower over her party's event, too.
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Welcome to Intifada 3
What surprisingly informative about this photo of Palestinian's at war with Israel in the Occupied Territories is how much they have to work with.
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