Wrestling with the Apocalypse
If anything comes out of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown at all, it's a deeper understanding of how stereotypically the world relates to the Japanese.
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Angelina on the Tunisia/Libya Border
I'm not saying Angelina doesn't have an impact, but this photo is just forced and exploitive.
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Those Snapshots from TEPCO
On top of TEPCO's track record since the Fukushima disaster began, it doesn't help their cause that a lot of their photos don't feel that "empirical."
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Illustration of the Week or Just Pretty Weak?
If the radiation story has been a terrifying and bewildering, the reporting has been pretty cut-and-dried.
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The Fukushima Glow
It's not my intention to make light. These scenes (grainy, emergency yellow and saturated like this) are just eerie.
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No Fly Zone Envy
Tough question (once you get past the fact it's a pro-Gaddafi demonstration)
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The Latest Fukushima Photo Bucking For Icon Status
At this point, it seems that people are both deeply connected to the story, but also do not want to face the reality/consequences of real live nuclear power plant accident.
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Tearing Down a Middle East Dictator Statue – Chapter 2
If these dramatic scenes from Deraa, Syria, on Friday were reminiscent of anything here in the West, it was the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad's Firdos Square. (With some key modifications.)
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A Brush With Saif Gaddafi
Before the Gaddafi's elevated to Public Enemy No. 1, Saif Gaddafi and his artwork attracted fawning attention. This piece is certainly my favorite.
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Gaddafi: Beyond Shooting His Mouth Off
Cool illustration, but maybe not so clear cut. Is Gaddafi that much of a machine?
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Libya: High on Democracy, Did West Fall in Love with Drowning Man?
This photo -- of a lone rebel carrying a grenade launcher and a guitar -- crystallizes the fear I've had about the Libya uprising.
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Jake Price in Japan: Dispatch From The Quake Zone
Back in Sendai from the epicenter of the Japanese earthquake, photographer Jack Price captures the ordeal, and brave spirits, of survivors.
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Obama vs. Gaddafi: Who’s A Head?
If this picture caught the imagination of photo editors — the souvenir hung on a destroyed government tank by the Libyan rebels following a coalition airstrike — it might have a greater symbolic significance. Now that Obama has stuck his neck out — not just to bolster the Libyan insurgency...
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Her AK
If it was just a guy firing straight into the air, this never would have made the wires.
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Alan Chin on the Middle East: Ghosts of Suez and Srebrenica
In this momentous period in the Middle East, Alan Chin reflects on military interventions that didn't happen, concerns for the one that has, and the emotional forces at play for a photojournalist now back home, while friends and colleagues remain at risk.
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The Outright Sense of Normal in the Midst of Holy Hell
How a photo of the Japan tsunami plays with disaster -- and our sense of denial.
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Diane Sawyer Watches
This "behind the scenes" photo from the ABC News show somehow struck me.
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