Alan Chin Archives - Page 2 of 6 - Reading The Pictures

Notes Photo February 27, 2011

Alan Chin on the Tunisia-Libya Border: Exodus

It's no longer quiet at Tunisia's Ras Jedir border where Alan Chin had been attempting to cross into Libya these past two days. Instead, there is now a mass of evacuees choking the area.

Notes Photo February 24, 2011

Alan Chin on the Tunisia-Libya Border: A Hundred Miles

From the Tunisian border to Tripoli, it is only a hundred miles along the Mediterranean coast highway. At any moment, we journalists gathered here calculate, the revolution will reach this border and we'll be able to enter. But when or how that might happen, we can only speculate.

Notes Photo February 20, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: Getting My Cameras Back

Censorship through confiscating equipment: The corrosion and absurdity of Egypt's bureaucracy, a small window onto how the Mubarek regime kept people under control.

Notes Photo February 12, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: "Yesterday I was a Demonstrator. Today I Build Egypt"

As celebration of Mubarek's downfall continues into a second day and night, its a time for exaltation, clean up -- and an eye to what comes next.

Notes Photo February 11, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: Mubarak No More!!!

Egypt Uprising - Day 18. Tension skyrockets. Mubarak resigns. Joy and celebration reign. Alan Chin: It's a combination of Prague '89 and New Years Eve.

Notes Photo February 10, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: Extreme Shock and Rage. (It Seems Even the Generals Thought Mubarak Would Resign.)

Day 18 in Cairo: It seems the entire world was expecting that Mubarak would step down. In the early hours, Alan sent just three pictures. In their simplicity they track the story of this profound, stunning and ultimately, crushing evening.

Notes Photo February 9, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: The Opposition Recharging

Day 16 in Cairo: From outside the Parliament to inside the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters to Tahrir Square where protest organizers are manning the power strips, the uprising is recharging.

Notes Photo February 8, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: A Crowded Square

Egypt Uprising, Day 15: As the political situation settles into a stalemate, protesters returned in force to Tahrir Square energized by the words of a former Google executive released from detention.

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Alan Chin & David Degner in Cairo: Traffic and Camping

Middle East Uprising, Day 14: The Egyptian government is anxious to let the world know that life is returning to normal. But despite the current calm, the anxiousness is well deserved.

Notes Photo February 6, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: Power In Flux

BagNews contributing photographer Alan Chin's first dispatch from Cairo. How my cameras were impounded, and the mood on the street.

Notes Photo December 16, 2010

Nina Berman & Alan Chin: Broke-Beck Mountains of Madness

Glenn Beck in Wilmington, Ohio, selling $30 books, $125 theater tickets, and $500 breakfast.

Notes Photo December 14, 2010

Nina Berman & Alan Chin: Waiting For Beck

Waiting for Glenn Beck in Wilmington, Ohio, where he performs "America's First Christmas" Wednesday. But most people are more worried about survival.

Notes Photo September 13, 2010

Alan Chin: Not Exactly a Party

As opposed to more critical or outlandish portraits of Tea Party rallies, Alan Chin's photos speak to the emotional underside of the so-called movement.

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Alan Chin: Black Tea

What do we think when we see a Black Tea Party Member? We've got some questions:

Notes Photo September 12, 2010

Alan Chin: 9/11 Anniversary Ground Zero Protests; We're Just All(ah) Americans Here

Whereas the media's visual coverage of the Ground Zero protests tend to frame them as a battle of left vs. right, or protectors of freedom of religion vs. defenders of the victims of 9/11, Alan Chin's photos from Lower Manhattan yesterday take a more practical view.