Welcome to our latest edition of Chatting the Pictures. This week we discussed Mark Zuckerberg’s DC appearance, the Syria gas attack, and Michael Cohen "and friends."
Continue ReadingBetween Zuckerberg, Syria and the latest Trump storms, the news photos this week were more complex than usual.
Continue ReadingAs much as his appearance before Congress was a visual sensation, Zuckerberg was not going to be pinned down legally, rhetorically or photographically.
Continue ReadingWelcome to our latest edition of Chatting the Pictures. This week, we focus on photos from the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King assassination, protests in Gaza, and Donald Trump throwing away a script.
Continue ReadingNews photos this week seemed to treat issues with more complexity, and there was more focus on Trump's policy than personality. Something is shifting.
Continue ReadingEmma has become the visual trademark of political dissent and generational change, a contemporary Rosie the Riveter.
Continue ReadingWelcome to our latest edition of Chatting the Pictures. This week, we focus on one photo from Sacramento and two from Washington.
Continue ReadingIt was a week in which issues gained weight, or at least, more gravity, and the aggrieved aggressively challenged the status quo.
Continue ReadingIt feels like what we are witnessing in these photos is the surest emergence of social and political awareness. You sense the children are the most awake.
Continue ReadingStudent walkouts. Trump rapid firing, hiring and proclaiming. Visually, this was a week of large gestures, and demonstrations of all kinds.
Continue ReadingPost Parkland, these photos place gun violence and reform advocates in a larger frame.
Continue ReadingWatch the latest edition of Chatting the Pictures, our 25-minute weekly webcast. This week, we look at the media spectacle from Capitol Hill to Pennsylvania to Moscow.
Continue ReadingThe aftermath of gun violence, on top of an administration bleeding staff from outside investigations and internal warfare, has created the perfect storm.
Continue ReadingEverywhere you looked this week, young people dominated the political dialogue.
Continue ReadingIt's all too easy to focus on Trump's severe personal limitations and miss the larger point, that it's the script for a show.
Continue ReadingCreating images that double as fine art, Matt Black is mapping how poverty is a major problem today, now, this minute and every minute.
Continue ReadingWatch our latest chat with RTP's Michael Shaw and Cara Finnegan. It's a lively and unique 20-minute webcast looking at key photos of the week.
Continue ReadingIn this current cultural moment, in the atmosphere of #MeToo, how do we reconcile this group of World Press Photo contest nominees?
Continue ReadingHey, we’re back with another news photo chat! Watch RTP's Michael Shaw and Cara Finnegan riff for 20 minutes or so about three headline photos.
Continue ReadingFormerly public women evicted from private space, these retired sex workers are now proudly private and challenge us to recognize it.
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