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Chatting the Pictures: A Covid Kiss That Is Harder to Read
Two people kiss through plastic bags marking love in the time of Covid. We discuss how the image parallels earlier pandemic hugs and kisses.
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Chatting the Pictures: Honoring Farm Worker Parents in Proud Graduation Photos
A student takes her graduation pictures in the same farm field she once worked with her parents. We compare it to others and explore the visual history.
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Picturing Vaccination Reluctance Among Conservative Christians
Vaccination reluctance in these small Appalachian towns is less a matter of politics or social responsibility than a complex conflict with faith.
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Chatting the Pictures: Biden-Putin Summit Photo Cracks the Fourth Wall
Just an amusing photograph? We discuss how savvy it was for the media to circulate it, and how surprisingly informative it is.
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Chatting the Pictures: Beyond Cute
We explain how this Chinese panda at the National Zoo in Washington both offers lessons in photo editing and captures a post-pandemic mood.
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Chatting the Pictures: Photo of Gaza Vigil an Appeal to the Senses
Amidst the rubble, this photo of Palestinian family members attending a candlelight vigil in Gaza makes an exquisite appeal to the senses.
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Chatting the Pictures: A Singular Picture of George Floyd’s Daughter Entering the White House
On the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, this photo of his family visiting the White House stood above the others.
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Chatting the Pictures: Submerged Man in Miami and Kadir van Lohuizen’s Essential Climate Imagery
Considering a deep examination of the world's vanishing coastlines and the media challenge of making climate crisis images more impactful.
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Haunting for the Beauty, or the Stalking?
Beauty and subtlety distracts from the reality of asylum seekers in this news photos from the US/Mexico border.
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Scenes from Work as Photographers Increasingly Caught Up in the Protests They Cover
These Instagram photos of Colombian news photographer Luis Robayo speak to the all-consuming challenge of covering protests today.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Ameriguns
Parker ‘Baret’ Fawbush stands with his family and his firearms for an American family portrait in Poseyville Indiana.
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Figure and Ground
We rarely discuss it this formally, but our analysis of important news photos always considers the relationship between figure and ground.
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Chatting the Pictures: Frank Thorp’s Portrait of Dion 100 Days after the Capitol Riot
This portrait photograph of Dion Montague is part of an NBC News feature, "After the Riot," marking 100 days since the Capitol attack.
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Chatting the Pictures: World Press Photo of The Year, A COVID-19 Hug
World Press Photo of the Year depicts a patron embraced by a nurse at a care home, Sao Paulo, Brazil, through a curtain of clear plastic.
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Chatting the Pictures: Riot Cop Photo Raises Question of "Who's the Other?"
A prominent photo from the civil rights protests in Minnesota raises important questions about power and place.
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Chatting the Pictures: Lightning in George Floyd Square
Lightning strikes near the intersection of Chicago Avenue and 38th Street in Minneapolis, also known as George Floyd Square.
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Notable Faces from the Start of the George Floyd Murder Trial
At the start of jury selection in the George Floyd murder trial, seeing solidarity, and visualizing accountability.
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Chatting the Pictures: A Photo that Gestures We're Coming Out of Covid
You can't have humor without distance. Does this award-winning photo suggest the U.S. is finally emerging from the trauma of the pandemic?
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The Halfs and the Half-Nots
How photojournalism is channeling split-screens and divided societies. Perceptually and morally, the style serves as an apt social mirror.
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Chatting the Pictures: The Man for the Season
Though hardly photogenic, this powerful photo of President Biden captures his faith and focus to guide America out of the COVID-19 crisis.
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