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World Cup Picture of the Week: You Can't Eat Soccer Balls
Do you know what I liked best about this Sao Paolo graffiti art that went viral this week?
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Central African Gunman Loose in Paris ... Fighting for Photography
It's interesting to see this group take photojournalism, as a provocative exercise, to the streets. I just can't tell if this photo has their back or not.
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War, Politics and Disability: Tammy Duckworth's VA Scandal Interview Photo
What’s disturbing is when objects -- especially those of deep emotional and moral value -- become the framing elements for political equivocation.
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Growing Old in Prison
If you didn't know the context, you wouldn't know these men were inmates or that the images had anything to do with the penal system.
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James Whitlow Delano - Fifth Dispatch: Slash Cameroon's Rainforest and Lose Ancestor's Souls
In this longread and photojournal for BagNews Originals, photographer James Whitlow Delano details the impact of multinational logging and palm oil operations on the people and rainforest of Cameroon.
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Concern and Eroticism: Wire Services Warm Up for Brazil and World Cup
Here comes the World Cup -- and the effort by Western visual media to create a simultaneously vital and salable picture of the Brazilian social and political landscape.
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Missing the Big Picture: How Cecily McMillan, Convicted of Assault, Was Violently Assaulted by NYPD at M17 Occupy Protest
What is curious about Cecily McMillan's ordeal is that, in spite of the mountain of critical fragments that were captured and published, the visuals have failed to focus the public mind around a smoking gun.
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Ask Not What a Meltdown Can Do For You
If her father was revered for concentrating America on the moon, cultivating a national optimism out of a technological and patriotic savvy, what a long fall we've had.
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Bring Back Our Girls ... From the Digital Divide
What the girls represented was a blind spot -- active evidence that the web isn't, in fact, omniscient, and our digital experience -- as much as it feels like the essence of inclusivity -- is overwhelmingly exclusive and exclusionary.
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Reality Show President: Inside the White House PR Machine
In producing this just-under 12 minute video, ReasonTV draws on quotes from BagNews to illustrate how thoroughly the White House controls Obama's visual image.
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Michael Sam's Draft Day Kiss: ESPN as Deep Throat
What's mainly an issue here is how media makes all of us flies on the wall without causing us to think about how we got in the room in the first place.
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How They See Us: The World Trade Center
As much as the Freedom Tower is all about America’s grief and will, to the Russian on holiday it's just one more stop between the Chrysler Building and Liberty Island.
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#BringBackOurGirls: The Complex Optics of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation
The controversy over the politics of representation in #BringBackOurGirls must be used to bolster the broader campaign for women’s safety, autonomy, and right to consent.
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That Vanity Fair Monica Lewinsky Spread: Black and White and Re(a)d All Over
What were left with (if it's not a parody on her claim to fame) is the act of her giving her body.
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The Open-and-Shut Assault Case Against Occupy Activist, Cecily McMillan: Just Look at the Pictures
And, if you thought this story had to do with anything more than the state and a woman's body, this shot puts that to rest.
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That Sleazy Obama - Sebelius White House Correspondents Dinner Photo
Evoking the stereotype of the hyper-sexual black man and the penchant for white women, it's still one more photo of the first black president with racist overtones.
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About Those Callous Selfies
I'm not prepared to say that this photo or its innumerable cousins have any moral implications at all.
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Spacious Photos of People Living in Shoeboxes
Spurred by top and bottom incomes rocketing in opposite directions, these eye-catching and, certainly, morally disorienting bird's eye views capture people in Hong Kong's high rises forced to exist in closet-sized spaces.
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Some Guy Executed Somewhere After a Couple of Tries
I wonder how much the randomness is reflective of how little we want to see, understand and take responsibility for this brand of extermination.
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The S. Korean Ferry Disaster: Living Hell in an Increasingly Mediated Age
I'm referring to how and how much participants live the experience live via screens and visual and social media. Which then, we do.
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