Compassionate Christchurch, Youthful Sincerity of the Climate Strike: Our Social Week
Christchurch and the resolve in mourning. Young eco activists speaking with their feet, and their posters. That was our visual focus this week.
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The Grieving Woman at the Ethiopian Airlines Crash Site, and the Western Gaze
The expression of grief is so intense, I cannot forget it. At the same, however, I feel challenged looking at the photo as a westerner.
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S/He Wore A Pearl Necklace
The necklace stunt reminds us that guns, masculinity, and domination hang together as part of a hard right political style.
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Kill Them with Kindness: Leading up to the Lie Maduro Burned US Aid Trucks
The lie has been disproven. But what is missing from the bridge story is the role the US and USAID played in stoking this incident in the first place.
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Diatribe of the Accused, Silence for the Abused: Our Social Week
A viral picture of singer R. Kelly gesticulating during an interview with CBS’s Gayle King is one of those sensational internet nuggets that feels tailor made for the cultural moment. Loaded with subtexts of gender, race, and media representation, it took less than a day for the photo to...
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Figures Larger than Life: Our Social Week
Trump, Kim, Cohen. It’s been a great week for pictures that bring us close to the larger than life protagonists on the political stage.
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Vietnam to South Lawn, Vatican to Award Season: Our Social Week
Our feeds this week dialed in to Michael Shaw’s New York Times Magazine investigative article about an iconic Vietnam War photograph.
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Just Don’t Call it Socialism
Williamson's photo of Americans outside a free health clinic brings the discussion of "socialism," and/or a more humane social policy into greater focus.
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Mexican American, American Mexican
The photo helps us visualize "remigration,” the controversial practice that sends thousands of American schoolchildren on a permanent semester abroad.
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All in the Hands: Our Visual Roundup of the Week
From Silicon Valley to the Whitaker hearing, from daily life in the West Bank to the State of the Union, the visuals this week were all about the hands.
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Why Wall Breaching Photos Don’t Capture the Border Crossing Story
These photos remind us that immigrants are not an organized caravan or an impending wave of bodies. They are mostly alone, navigating one step at a time.
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Our Top Instagram Posts of the Year
As we flip the page to 2019, we wanted to share our favorite posts from our Instagram feed this year.
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Slow Violence, Slow Photography: Chris Gregory’s Portrait of Puerto Rico after Maria
How do you photograph systemic failure? Chris Gregory's Puerto Rico portrait does it through juxtaposition, capturing natural calamity and colonial neglect, both fast and slow.
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What We’re Looking At: Hurricanes Michael and Khashoggi
Visual news has been dominated by two hurricanes lately. Here are selected photos with commentary.
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Our Top Kavanaugh Pics Starting from the Beginning
We profile 17 top photos from the Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
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The Visual Bubble: White House Media Affairs Undoes a Breakfast
Not since the administration’s panic over the crowd size at the inauguration have we seen such visual damage control.
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From SCOTUS to NATO, the Pix Were Lit: Our Visual Roundup of the Week
The Queen. The NATO flyover. The Baby Blimp. Strzrok and Russiagate. Kavanaugh/SCOTUS. Manafort. What a visual week.
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Gangster Mindset: Pompeo Gets Owned on North Korea Visit
Taken during Mike Pompeo's empty visit to North Korea last week, Andrew Harnik's Instagram photo is pretty clever.
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