Chatting the Pictures: The Ameriguns
Parker ‘Baret’ Fawbush stands with his family and his firearms for an American family portrait in Poseyville Indiana.
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Chatting the Pictures: Riot Cop Photo Raises Question of “Who’s the Other?”
A prominent photo from the civil rights protests in Minnesota raises important questions about power and place.
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Chatting the Pictures: Lightning in George Floyd Square
Lightning strikes near the intersection of Chicago Avenue and 38th Street in Minneapolis, also known as George Floyd Square.
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Chatting the Pictures: From Breonna Taylor’s Side Window
This photo of Juniyah Palmer, Breonna Taylor's sister, was taken by LaToya Ruby Frazier. We find it a powerful emotional and forensic record.
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Trump Hospital Photo Ops after El Paso, Dayton Mass Shootings
We discuss photos made during the Trump's El Paso and Dayton hospital visits following mass shootings there, including a portrait with a baby survivor.
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Gun Protests: Watching Our Very Young Have a Political Awakening
It feels like what we are witnessing in these photos is the surest emergence of social and political awareness. You sense the children are the most awake.
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Gun Reform That Looks More Like America
Post Parkland, these photos place gun violence and reform advocates in a larger frame.
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Understanding Trump’s School Shooting Listening Session, and the Cheat Sheet
It's all too easy to focus on Trump's severe personal limitations and miss the larger point, that it's the script for a show.
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On that Photo of Air Force One Passing the Scene of the Vegas Massacre
Putting Air Force One and the stricken hotel together as objects demands the consideration of one in terms of the other.
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Las Vegas Mass Shooting Photos: What’s Different This Time
What makes the photos from Las Vegas different than those of previous gun massacres? The politics are baked in this time.
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On Obama’s Tears
Obama's tears not only give Americans permission to feel and to grieve over what’s been confined to a political battle, but also to weep.
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The Umpqua College Shooting: One More in a Sea of Vigils
In the aftermath of the school shooting, these long view photos of candlelight vigils capture us coming together as well as fading away.
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Dylann Roof and His Point-and-Shoot
It's as if Roof is reminding us he wouldn't have attained anywhere near the fame and notoriety without the power and ubiquity of photography today.
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Duck and Cover Redux: Bulletproof Blankets for Kids
On the heels of widely publicized shootings, particularly school attacks, the violence and trauma seemed to bring out the entrepreneurs.
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Even if the Police Report Wasn’t Buried by the Holiday, What Photo Would Make Us Understand Sandy Hook?
Today, unlike the 1950s and 60s, we seek to insulate ourselves from an (often uninvited) deluge of visual obscenity, detaching from the deeper implications of these images.
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Arapahoe and Sandy Hook School Shootings: That Was Then, This is … Still Then?
We were horrified to hear of a school shooting at Arapahoe High School in Colorado, just one day before the one year mark of the Sandy Hook shootings.
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Nina Berman from San Antonio: Gun Rally Fashion Then and Now
At the Alamo that day, I saw a whole new generation of gun owners who wore their weapons like Madison Avenue socialites wear their Hermes bags.
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Jon Lowenstein on the South Side: Shots Fired
I hope to use this space on BagNews Originals as a way to explore the feelings, thoughts and daily realities of living here in a community that is seen in such a fiercely negative light.
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