Burning Issues in California: All in One Frame
It's certainly one of the more simple and eloquent newswire photos I've seen in a while the way it juxtaposes two very large but visually separate politically-charged issues.
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Keystone Preview?: Crude Pictures from Mayflower
As the one photo of the rupture in the Wall Street Journal's parsimonious Photos of the Day gallery on Tuesday, I think this chessboard view is abstract enough to be pretty.
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Juxtaposition of the Week: The Sacred and the Profane
Sistine Chapel's sulphur/coal tar combination for the cause.
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The Hattiesburg Tornado and Self-Defense
With constituencies for both gun control and climate legislation each eagerly awaiting tonight's lead-off second term State of the Union, this unfortunate aftermath photo from the Hattiesburg tornado is quite a mash-up.
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Chinese New Year: Where There’s Smoke
D you know when you're really feeling the climate anxiety?
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French Eco/Youth/Farm Revolt: What Protest Looks Like Now?
Pictures from this fight over between "the man" and the protesters over the commercial development of dwindling open space makes for strange viewing. Is living in an increasingly visual and media-rich culture leading to more powerful and evocative depictions of protest?
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Hear No Evil, Sea No Evil
In a visual riff on "hear no evil, see no evil," each spoke to me about the problematic relationship between nature gone awry and human nature being all too predictable.
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Larger Outlines of a Super Storm
In terms of the larger questions just now being raised the about longer term status of the island, it's one of the most incisive photos of the Sandy coverage I've seen.
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Romney RNC Acceptance Speech: Not of This Planet
If there was one line and one moment that set off Mitt Romney and the GOP last night, it was this one.
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The Mountaintop Mining "Kiddie Porn" Smear: The Photo Must Be Seen
Once we start censoring images with this kind of significance, especially in this visually-driven culture, I think we're lost.
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Fukushima +1
Marking the one year anniversary of the tsunami and Fukushima meltdown, this photo is like the cousin of a very early one presaging the ongoing radiation threat on Japan's next generation.
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Fukushima: Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Except…
The other thing you can't see here, though it's there, is the plant in the distance.
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What Keystone White House Protest?
If the Keystone protest has been going on for weeks in front of the White House while hardly earning a blip on the media radar, yesterday was a different story.
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Jake Price in Japan: The Road Back
Jake Price reflects on photographing the aftermath of Japan's earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown, as he embarks to return for a follow-up journey to the disaster zone.
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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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Poster of the Day: Warmer is Better
Climate change denial: a simple matter of mind over nature.
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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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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Red Scarves On Blair Mountain
Close to 1000 supporters marched to abolish mountaintop removal coal mining and to re-list Blair Mountain on the National Historic Registry. They retraced the route coal miners walked in 1921 when they clashed with mine operators and the federal government in what was the largest armed uprising in the...
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