John Moore: Surviving the U.S. Recession
We at BagNews are proud to provide this audio slideshow drawing attention to a recession that may have ended on paper, but in practical terms, continues to plague so many Americans. Also, we are pleased to offer this forum to John Moore, a compassionate and truly gifted photographer so...
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And then Came the Floods
A photo that puts this American disaster in a larger context.
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Japan's Nuke Plant "Amusement" Centers: Hello Kitty Meets Alice in Wonderland
Things have come a long way since Reddy Kilowatt.
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9/11 Artifacts: Who Will Take the American Airlines Slipper?
Who is in line for the slipper?
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Mario Tama: Spicy Tuna, Giant Clam and Radiation Roll
This photo from a N.Y. sushi restaurant takes on a different sense given that the ocean off Japan will likely soon up its glow, and those domestic nuke plants we've been rock-bottom assured are bulletproof might not be.
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Nuclear Bunnies?
Whether the bunny is a Fukushima mutation or not is not really the issue.
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Obama Surveys Storm Damage, Oh Glory
Obama tours the tornado devastation in Missouri. (God bless America.)
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Attack on the Heartland
I'm not sure if this is a media phenomenon, a cultural reflex, or both, but why does the coverage of U.S. catastrophes seems to automatically and fundamentally activate a patriotic response, as if the disaster is somehow an attack on the country?
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TEPCO Mega-Float: Radiation Takes a Cruise
The fact that the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists had to state that the plan wasn't an April Fool's joke is telling.
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TEPCO's Final Solution
It’s not clear what the public’s reaction will be to Japan’s "final solution," but besides devastating animal activist and lovers worldwide, it will fulfill the aim of not just eliminating the irradiated animals, but also the problem of the photos.
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Unit 4 in Danger of Collapse? (And Then, Don't Tell Me There's Nothing To See at Fukushima)
It is often noted that the story remains invisible because radiation is invisible, and that the photos and video being released by TEPCO are overly technical, as well. Well, I'm not buying it.
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The Gurney
There but not there. This photo seems to capture the ambiguous media status of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima.
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Chernobyl and the Spirit World
Chernobyl is now a ghost town, which is one reason this mural is so powerful. The photographic record documents one abandoned habitat after another: schools, hospitals, office buildings, homes, everything had to be abandoned. Harder to capture are the many illnesses, deformities, and deaths caused by the...
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We're Sorry
Apparently, corporate responsibility has a strikingly different face to it in Japan than it does in America.
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Haiti/Japan: Similar Disaster, Different Pictures
When we look West to Japan we see something rather like ourselves. When we look South, however, we see something altogether different.
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Fukushima: Terror Turning Just a Little Robotic
Robots are cool. Robot pictures are about the future, and science, and the application of advanced technological capability and know-how. And generally, robot pictures are fun.
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Fukushima a Month Out: Hear Not Much Evil, See Not Much Evil
This reactor story didn’t smell right to me from the beginning (Japan series at Bag and Bag Tumblr), and it only felt more so after listening to Helen Caldicott and Alex Smith talk about the volatility of the Fukushima plant a week ago on Pacifica Radio (as opposed to that MOR...
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