Pope in America: It’s Showtime!
Poverty? Racial tolerance? Social Justice? For the media over the next few days, it’s Hollywood, baby.
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Christian Conservative “Counter Logic”: That Kim Davis Photo and God’s Law
This photograph of Kim Davis denying gay people equal treatment under the law by appealing to the dictates of her own conscience is a picture of the snake eating its own tail.
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Behind the Niqab: The (Male) Photographer’s Perspective of Life Through the Veil – Part 1
Men would do well to consider women’s perspectives more often—not just when there is a physical reminder that your literal view on the world is affected by your gender.
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Muhammad Art Contest: Pamela Geller Rallies the Troops
This show of muscle is reminiscent of the American invasion of Iraq -- as supplemented by the Blackwater group.
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Photojournalism and Public Trauma: Safe Travels
If we can't even trust our own pilots, is there anyone or anything left that we can depend on to assure our safe travels?
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Pics from the Wire: The Overarching Obstacle in Iraq
The photo sums up the problem with western engagement -- in duplicate.
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Holy Dive-in-ity
We shouldn't let a new year full of cataclysms obscure all those brave souls who've been jumping into super-cold water without their clothes.
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Paris Post-Charlie: Questions and Comments in Getty's Newswire Street Photos
I know the majority of news attention went to the solidarity march in Paris on Sunday. I was more struck, however, by the angles and ideas percolating, non-verbally of course, in Getty's newswire photos from Saturday.
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ISIS Hysteria Meets War on Christmas: On the Sydney Hostage Siege Screenshot
Gender-wise, the photo surely did have a voyeuristic and almost sado-sexual vibe to it.
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On The Thanksgiving Wire
With the view every-which-way so dark and conflicted, this provided some relief.
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Under Siege, Those Dancing Blacks and Acrobatic Palestinians
If I believed the world had that much more sensitivity, I would think these photos would be recognized and celebrated as empathetic to the largely black residents of Ferguson or to Palestinians and Israeli Arabs.
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Glory as a Stage Show: On Mark Peterson’s Vegas Megachurch Photos
Peterson’s photograph places us right down front at a high-energy, high-tech, multi-media extravaganza where lights, camera, and action are the name of the game.
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Philip Montgomery: From a Harlem Frame Shop
What’s impressive about the photo is how it has both a pre- and post-9/11 meaning.
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On that ISIS/ISIL Centerfold
I imagine you’ve seen this gentleman posing here in his outdoor boudoir?
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Pictures Beyond the Veil: The Hijab and Free Choice
Although compulsary veiling is certainly a violation of women’s civil rights, the act of unveiling can similarly obscure women’s identities.
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Aerial Attack at the Vatican
What makes the attack so compelling is how thoroughly ripe it is for symbolization.
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Rise of Ted Cruz Best Captured (Fleetingly, Anyway) by Medieval Christian Iconography
On the brink of a government shutdown, the next act of a fractured Congress, and the rise of a great right hope, it's not like these aren't perfect days for religious visual metaphors.
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Everywhere and Nowhere: Egypt President's Ubiquitous "Disappearance"
Perhaps the strangest plot twist of the Egyptian overthrow is the public erasure of President Morsi -- the physical version, that is. Otherwise, Morsi's presence has been ubiquitous.
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