That Pussy Riot – Yuri Kozyrev Shoot: Fashion as Defiance
The Kremlin must regret letting go of those prison jackets.
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Deep Dive for Photo Editors: Ariel Sharon and the Politics of the Slideshow Retrospective
With the passing of Ariel Sharon, we were interested in the political nuances, and biases, in the photo galleries summarizing his career.
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The Quenelle Salute and the Urge to be Outraged
If the Quenelle has no meaning, it's significant for the (media) madness itself.
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Portraits of the Year
Some girls can rise to international fame and brand status while, for others....
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Alongside the Grace and Poetry of the Mandela Memorial Tribute, a Mirror of Our Lesser Selves
If a profound delineation would have ever emerged between tabloid culture and our highest nature, yesterday would have been that day.
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The Politics of Nostalgia: The Mandela Fist
It's interesting how the flood of memorial portraits in the West marginalize or soft-peddle, but also get stuck on Mandela's ferocity and engagement with the tool of violence.
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A Picture of Poverty Tourism that Still Means Business
Far too often, photojournalists take pictures that support commercial, rather than journalistic, interests. Instead, a photojournalist should go for another angle that presents the hypocrisy.
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Those "Upside Down" Pictures from Kiev: Citizens Cracking the Whip in Ukraine?
With mass protest and iron fisted crackdowns sadly common newswire fare, there was something curiously different about the images from Kiev's Independence Square.
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Typhoon Haiyan: Early Pictures
Once again, it's not looting if people are starving and have no alternative.
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Amnesty International's Hyper-Local and "Hyper-Visual" Public Service Denouncements
If the goal was not just to drive traffic to AI and increase the organization's brand but to also cause people to "imagine it there,"does it create that result, or does it yield a more resistant reaction?
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Saudi Women: Driving Home the Point
How nice (and stereotype-defying) to see men also giving a nod.
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The Kidnapped White Girl Photo to Top Kidnapped White Girl Photos?
I wish it was the Onion, but it's not.
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Andrea Bruce and the Paradox That's Damascus
Capturing the domestic anxiety of the civil war.
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The Munitions Factory
My question is, why did this photo stand out so powerfully from the larger edit of 10-year-old Issa working in a Syrian rebel weapons factory?
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Why All the Syrian Execution Imagery in the Major Media Lately? (GRAPHIC)
I would say that these images represent the inclination, on the part of the West, to paint every faction in Syria with a broad bloody brush.
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If Your Average US Citizen Could Make Sense of this Photo….
Given the scope of religious and cultural branches spanning the Middle East, this photo actually presents the Western media consumer with an Arab and Islamic world political knowledge quiz.
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Will this (Random, Dated) Snuff Video Prevent the Attack on Syria?
With respect to everything at stake here, the bar for decisive imagery remains much higher.
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Before and After the Bombing Starts: The Disconnect in 2 Pictures
It seems some variation of that Mike Tyson "best laid plans" quote is on a lot of minds these days.
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