Remembering Chris Hondros, Part III: Tal Afar
Edward Wong of the New York Times shares the story of Chris Hondros's photographs documenting the accidental killing of Iraqi civilians by American troops in Iraq.
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The Gurney
There but not there. This photo seems to capture the ambiguous media status of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima.
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Chernobyl and the Spirit World
Chernobyl is now a ghost town, which is one reason this mural is so powerful. The photographic record documents one abandoned habitat after another: schools, hospitals, office buildings, homes, everything had to be abandoned. Harder to capture are the many illnesses, deformities, and deaths caused by the...
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Remembering Chris Hondros, Part II
Alan Chin, Scout Tufankjian, and Stephanie Sinclair share their memories of Chris Hondros.
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Afghanistan: Holey War
The clueless gaze of the Afghan military guy with his little notebook only adds to the haplessness of this metaphor.
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Remembering Chris Hondros, Part I
Tim Fadek, Spencer Platt, Nicole Tung, and Gary Fabiano share their thoughts on Chris Hondros.
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We're Sorry
Apparently, corporate responsibility has a strikingly different face to it in Japan than it does in America.
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Misurata (and Grieving)
I look at this photo from the day after and I imagine you can still see their footprints on Tripoli Street
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Haiti/Japan: Similar Disaster, Different Pictures
When we look West to Japan we see something rather like ourselves. When we look South, however, we see something altogether different.
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Fukushima: Terror Turning Just a Little Robotic
Robots are cool. Robot pictures are about the future, and science, and the application of advanced technological capability and know-how. And generally, robot pictures are fun.
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David Degner in Cairo: The Revolution Continues
David Degner updates from Cairo: If photographers aren't present, the story doesn't exist -- or at least it is much harder to pin down.
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Great Pic from the Benghazi Street, Hanging Up on 3rd World Stereotypes
Props to the NYT for this photo this morning on Libya. It high time to defy the stereotypes.
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France's Niqab Ban: Tricolor Face of the New Feminism
The French law states that women who cover in public are subject to a fine and also must enroll in a “citizenship course,” however, the young woman in this picture seems to understand citizenship better than the Sarkozy administration.
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Fukushima a Month Out: Hear Not Much Evil, See Not Much Evil
This reactor story didn’t smell right to me from the beginning (Japan series at Bag and Bag Tumblr), and it only felt more so after listening to Helen Caldicott and Alex Smith talk about the volatility of the Fukushima plant a week ago on Pacifica Radio (as opposed to that MOR...
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All the King's Horses and All The King's Men: More Fateful TEPCO Pics:
These are newly released photos from TEPCO documenting the moment just after and before the tsunami "attacked" the nuclear plant. (Yes, they describe it like that.)
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More Scenes from TEPCO: Behind the Lead Boards
I can imagine an expert saying a crisis like this involves a little bit of Rube Goldberg. On the other hand, the lead boards -- like the photo we looked at the other day of the worker pointing out the notorious crack -- leaves me anxious.
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Scenes from an Ongoing Meltdown
The visual irony from Fukushima just keep piling up.
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Amanda Rivkin in Hungary: Toxic Red Sludge
It's been six months since toxic red sludge from an aluminum plant in Hungary burst and flooded two surrounding villages. Photographer Amanda Rivkin delivers an update.
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