Coming Soon: The Joseph Kony Tour Package
Geo-politics meets compassion marketing meets war tourism.
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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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Super Tuesday Results in Pictures (via the Infamous Red Pen)
Via The Bag's infamous red pen, we bring you an annotated snapshot of Super Tuesday with our own order of finish.
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Iran: The Harsh Light of Western Exposure?
I'm wondering how much this treatment repurposes the photo to frame Iran as a pariah state, alluding to a day of reckoning that casts a rope around the state overall more so than the treatment and fate of individual citizens.
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Cairo, Damascus and the Surface of Things
With photographers risks their lives to photograph the political events of our time, we might take more time to notice the details.
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Visualizing Truth to Power: Putting Photos from Syria Together
These images aren't just random and they aren't just artifacts. They are testaments and they bear witness.
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Guttenfelder's Fukushima: Contemplating a Future Without Us
What's so powerful about Guttenfelder's nuke disaster photos is how "silent" and humbling they are, framing the disaster as an "ego check" and portentous of a future without us.
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Juxtaposition of the Day: The World on Two Balconies
The first one is from emerging China; the second from declining Greece.
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Photo Awards Can Be Prospective, Too: POYi and Greece on Fire
... And then, shockingly (talking about how a photo can seem like a template), today's newswires are full of more Greek policeman on fire.
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This Somali Pirate Shot — Why it Matters
An amazing pirate pic by Tyler Hicks for the NY Times. But does it say more, inadvertently, about desperation and hunger?
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Women to the Back of the Bus: A Picture of Gender Apartheid from Israel to Borough Park's B110
Images emerging from Israel currently bear more than a little resemblance to pictures taken in Montgomery, Alabama 50+ years ago.
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Ahmadinejad's Ready-to-Wear: Government Approved to Make Women Look Islamic and Beautiful
Regarding "approved" clothing for Iranian women, Ahmadinejad’s “compromise” is not a step in the right direction. It’s a step in the same direction.
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Our Favorite Photo from 2011
Despite 2011 marking the end of both Osama bin Laden and the Iraq War, what the picture reflects is that the fear of impending doom remains as vivid as ever.
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How To Understand All Those Photos of North Koreans Crying Over Kim Jong Il
I think it's almost impossible for Americans to look at these images without believing that a citizen's sense of free will and individuality is somehow just hovering below the surface.
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Some Visible Differences Between Protests in Russia and the U.S.
Whereas pro-Kremlin youth are showing up in the streets of Moscow and doing a lot of drumming, we don't have a lot of pro-corporate youth turning out in America's streets or the Occupy encampment in Washington forming drum circles in the name of the free market.
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Iran British Embassy Attack Meets Quentin Tarantino
Given the worldwide protests we've been seeing for months filled with robo-cops, civilians in gas masks and cardboard commentary across the spectrum, this certainly takes those visuals to the next level of "post-modern."
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Off Colors of Benetton: Obama as Gay Lover
With the American election coming up, I'm not exactly seeing the un-hate agenda here.
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Hillary and Libya: "V" is Very, Very Extraordinary
Although taken two days before, it wouldn't have surprised me one bit if this photo had been taken two days after Gaddafi was terminated.
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