Effectively detained as a political prisoner, we discuss the basketball star's body language and the photo’s reflection on the Soviet state.
Continue ReadingWe discuss body language ("take a knee"?), Tops's empty parking lot, and how we look at this photo after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Continue ReadingJohn Moore's photo is full of fate and symbolism. That includes the house as a face or head, and the profound outcome of walking away.
Continue ReadingLooking at pictures of toxic foam invading Mosquera, Colombia, we discuss the tendency to see the imagery more as a curiosity than a threat.
Continue ReadingIf it wasn't timely already, this Alabama abortion photo is now even more relevant as the Supreme Court telegraphs the end of Rowe vs. Wade.
Continue ReadingWe focus on the elements and symbols that make the photograph both a powerful remembrance and a wealth of visual storytelling.
Continue ReadingWe discuss the powerfully liminal quality of this tragic image and explain why horrific Ukraine war photographs are circulating so widely.
Continue ReadingAs Ukraine defends itself from the Russian onslaught, President Zelensky's advocacy in virtual space can be seen as state-of-the-art.
Continue ReadingMindful of all the grandstanding Judge Jackson faced in her Supreme Court nomination hearings, here she literally rises above and beyond it.
Continue ReadingAs the Russians target civilian sites, we examine the make-do circumstances and the power of this couple's intimacy.
Continue ReadingThe photo of citizens escaping their war-torn country from Kyiv's Central station is a remarkable depiction of both urgency and order.
Continue ReadingRon Haviv’s photos capture the resistance and spirit of the Ukrainians in the face of the Russian offensive.
Continue ReadingThe Covid protest that paralyzed downtown Ottawa offered a noisy clash of favorite symbols and newly-minted icons.
Continue ReadingWhile the internet had fun with it, this ludicrous scene captured Putin's loss of reality on the way to invading Ukraine.
Continue ReadingThe president is certainly facing serious challenges. But is Biden floundering or do images like this reflect more superficial shortcomings?
Continue ReadingWe delight in the creativity of news photography. And in the case of this photo from the Australian Open, the image feels like pure jazz.
Continue ReadingIn the name of fishing rights and fair play, this photo displays as much creativity and intrigue as it does advocacy and warning.
Continue ReadingIt's all there in one painterly photo: winter wildfire, the growing climate threat to the suburbs, and medical workers reduced to spectators.
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