Why There Aren’t Any Photos of Hamas Fighters (and Why the NYT, Tyler Hicks and Photographers Have Been Unfairly Blamed)
Let's call it "the drone factor."
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On Carolyn Cole’s Striking Photo of an Injured Muslim Woman in Gaza
Speaking for myself, I can hardly remember a news photo of a woman in a chador laying injured, let alone lying down.
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Elmo, the Illegal
But, when the coverage starts to pivot on undocumented immigrants and their identification as glorified panhandlers, the story and the photo assume a different inflection.
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Thoughts on That Beautiful Gaza "Leaflet Sky"
This photo just feels so wrong to me right now.
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Between Israel and Gaza, How the Pictures Could Possibly Relate
What does it even mean to do justice to the soul-crushing photos pouring out of Gaza and Israel these past three weeks? And then where does balance come into it?
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George and Angela
Frankly, the caption raises a lot more questions than it answers in what otherwise makes sense as a moment I would never have gotten to see.
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Gaza's 9/11?
Depending on how associative your mind is, this AP photo from Gaza City can be seen to draw an analogy between 9/11 and the shattering hurt still unfurling in Gaza this deathly season.
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The Skies These Days are a Fiery Hail
What with all the jetliners and missiles falling out if the sky, what's truly stunning about this photo is that all those projectiles are simply weather.
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I Could Show you Photos from the Air Strike on the Beit Hanoun U.N. School Yesterday. Or….
What is commanding the world's attention in this latest war and the Israeli bombardment is the toll it has taken, and continues to take on children.
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Israeli War: How the Cracks Are Beginning to Show (in 4 Wire Photos)
These photos reflect the growing sense that Israel and the IDF are not going to survive this latest war with the swagger intact.
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And Then, There's Burma
While the world is fixated on Gaza, the Muslims in Burma/Myanmar bear the added trauma of being ignored or considered not worth saving.
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These Are the Days of Scorched Earth
It seems fateful phrases are coming more easily at the moment than regular words.
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The Death of Four Gazan Cousins, Children of Fishermen
All that intensity makes the rest more unspeakable as we view the broken body of another cousin, futilely hanging on to life, as he's carried like a sack.
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What's More Deplorable, the Killing of Journalists Or Hardly Noticing?
Journalists have become targets in that many places for that long now that their vulnerability, and ultimately their fungibility, has ceased to even be noteworthy.
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The Latest Israel/Hamas Missile War: Fear at the Beach
If you are open to the comparison, the photo can't help but speak to "who's on top."
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#BringBackOurHashtag: Activism, Hacktivism & Photography in the Social Media Sphere
Social media activism is an undeniably important part of public protest, especially when pictures are involved. However, the unintended consequences of these forms of online protest remain unclear.
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Juxtaposition of the Day: Neymar Crushed, and an Overpass
With Brazil reaching the Cup semi-finals, there has been a sense all along that the country could not come through the tournament without enduring certain trials, weighed down perhaps by the cost to common good.
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