The Disappearing Island: Censorship at Guantánamo Bay
How much censorship colors a NY Times Guantánamo Bay photo essay on censorship.
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There Won’t Be Blood: Gun Violence and Visual Censorship
In light of the consecutive mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton, we discuss how gun violence is covered by U.S. media in terms of what we see and what we don’t see.
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Religious Persecution Survivors on the Oval Stage
We examine the political agenda behind President Trump’s Oval Office meeting with 27 survivors of religious persecution from around the world.
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The Pence Migrant Detention Center Pictures: A Closer Look
A close look at the imagery reveals Pence’s political agenda, the tour following a wave of damaging pictures surrounding the migrant crisis.
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Photo of a Drowned Migrant Father and Daughter Is Fading Fast
The belief in a photo’s power often resides more in hope than in what we actually know about pictures.
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Trump’s Napalm Girl: Consequences of a Drowned Migrant Father and Daughter
The significance of the drowning photograph: America at a tipping point. What it says about Trump. When a photo like this should be seen.
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Amish and Mennonite Photo Coverage in Face of Sexual Abuse, #MeToo
Because posing for a photo can be interpreted as a form of pride, scenes of the accused often resemble paparazzi shots or perp walks.
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Mexican Forces Give Their All for the Cameras to Placate Trump
With Trump on their backs over immigration deal, Mexico put the "show" in "show of force" at its southern border.
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A Defining Image of Trump’s America: The Cage Seller
If you had to choose one picture to illustrate Trump's larger motive, Mark Peterson's photograph is literally the money shot.
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Make America Meme: Why Melania Trump Birthday Photo was a Coup for the White House
More than pointed critiques, these memes tend to offer the Trump administration greater drama and even unwitting sympathy.
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How Climate Change is and isn’t Fueling the U.S. Border Crisis: These Pictures aren’t that Simple
With all the visual attention given to the "caravan," how powerful to see mass migration also depicted by people taking hold of a place.
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The Barr Code: Why the Mueller Redactions Went Viral
The Barr version of the Mueller Report confirms Trump’s lasting legacy as a black out.
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Louisiana Church Fires in the Shadow of All Else
The Louisiana church fires have been largely overlooked. Edmund Fountain's powerful parishioner portrait calls out: "We are here!"
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The Black Hole Picture: Ultimately, the Viral Image is More a Reflection of Ourselves
If we really can’t see a black hole, the next best thing is a picture we find familiar.
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Photography Challenge: Straddling Female Stereotypes as Women Become Marines
How well does Lynsey Addario’s New York Times boot camp story stand up in the age of #MeToo?
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The Meaning of Roseanne Barr in Jerusalem
How Hollywood star power negotiates a career fallout by heading to the Holy Land.
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Mulling on Mueller, Mo’ Beto, and So Much Posterizing: Our Social Week
This week, our social feeds focused on post-Mueller anxiety, more personality politics, and images legitimizing and delegitimizing.
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Trump and Reporters on the South Lawn: Getting Stranger by the Day
The reason I’m writing this is because the photos of Trump and reporters on the South Lawn have become flat out bizarre lately.
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