What’s So Impressive About Joe Raedle’s Climate Change Slide Show at the Denver Post
Like it or not, the photo story defies the simplistic treatment of the doomsday piece. If surprising for how politically incorrect it is, Greenlanders seem to see more than a silver lining to climate change.
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White House Syria Crisis: Kerry/Hitler vs. Rumsfeld/Hussein
I'm sure this photo of Kerry and Assad drudged up by Drudge is going to get plenty of attention -- along with the resuscitation of how many Kerry French jokes and Kerry Assad-Hitler citations.
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White House-Syria Crisis: Obama/McCain
Maybe this really was a case of getting the photographer in and out that quickly, and Souza grabbed -- and the communications people published -- the best of what he got.
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Anti-War Protests and the Media Stage. (Or: Assad Gets Around)
These discs might be accessible at the click of a button, but the uniformity and the geography makes me appreciate how much al-Assad gets around.
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How Much Before it's Enough? Another Pressing Photo from Damascus.
With so many citizens having died so suddenly and anonymously, these prints stand as much for those trapped in the shells of their homes, their own cars, their own bodies.
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Ready to Punish Assad, Cameron as Action Figure
If we're in another one of those countdowns where the time for temperance is somehow running out, this photo perfectly sets up the lizard brain.
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Scenes From Chemical Weapon Inspections in Syria … and a Ten Year Itch
What makes these images of UN weapons inspectors on the ground in Mouadamiya, Syria so powerful is how much they also evoke the Bush Administration's 2003 rush to war. Actually seeing UN weapons inspectors allowed to do their jobs following the horrifying mass event last week in Syria is...
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Ruddy Roye from Jamaica: The Hardest Time We Have Ever Had To Go Through
Each year whenever I visit my home of Montego Bay, it is difficult to avoid the stark faces of suffering people living in what I can only describe as a stagnant existence. I am both conscious and aware of the slow struggles of some the Jamaican people, especially poor...
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Bradley Manning's Lawyer on the Unfairness, and Dignity, We Weren't Allowed to See
What his lawyer wanted us to know is that Manning, against the stereotype of him as diminutive and weak, behaved with dignity and grace under enormous pressure. If allowed, photographs and videos would have reflected that on the air and front pages everywhere.
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How About "Nyet": Explaining the Russian Gold Medal Sprinter's "Gay Protest" Podium Kiss
I thought Obama supposedly ogling a G-8 intern, or a couple supposedly making out in the middle of a riot presented classic case studies of news photos taken wildly out context. Those are merely silver medals, however, compared to the golden misread made by countless prominent national and international...
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Where Things are Pointed in Egypt (and Have Been Since the Coup)
To the extent photographs can foreshadow, these series of hands -- displayed as symbol of the martyr, as evidential stain, and as steadfast defiance -- constitute a deadly arc.
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The Machine and the Martyrs: The Quintessential Photo from the Maniacal Crackdown in Cairo Last Week
Though the week was filled with horrific and telling imagery, no photo struck me more than this.
Continue ReadingOn That Viral Shot of the Syrian Refugee Camp in Jordan
Politicians come and go whereas images of the cost are more indelible.
Continue ReadingSnowden in Moscow: “The More Photographed I Am…the More Dangerous my Situation”
It’s evident that either his sartorial taste runs quite narrowly -- as befitting a classic “computer nerd” -- or he’s very specifically controlling his image, or both.
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Mineral, Vegetable and Animal: after the Quebec Tank Car Explosion, Robert Hariman’s Meditation on Oil
I know human beings were decimated without purpose. Nonetheless, I think this photograph captures something important about the larger economy of life and death in a machine age.
Continue ReadingThe Shooting Death of Ahmed Samir Assem
Was there was ever a stronger scene screaming out for an international response to the endangerment of journalists?
Continue ReadingThat Giant Laser Messaging in Tahrir Square: It's Not a Coup
What I find interesting is how defensive this phrase is.
Continue ReadingDavid Degner in Cairo: Scenes from the Toppling of a Government (Once Again)
Cairo photographer David Degner provides key scenes and details preceding the removal of President Morsi from power by the military.
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