Everyday Iraq: Beyond Islam and Primitivism
If western media images of that country are most often filled with sand, religious fervor and a sense of the ancient, this couldn't be more different.
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On those Viral Photos of African Migrants atop the Melilla Golf Course Fence
In this version of the photo, however, there is one element that makes quite a difference. It's that the golfer on the left seems to notice the men scaling the fence.
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Why that NYT Liberia Photo, Reflecting an Ebola Treatment Unit in the Mirror, Was so Contagious
The media panic has involved massive injections of fear regarding viral replication, contagion, and the ultimate displacement of death, so perhaps an image of photographic doubling can contain some of the excess emotion.
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The Shooting at the Canadian National War Memorial: What's Going to Last
More than anything, what has been fundamentally altered as a result of yesterday’s events is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier that 24-year-old Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was assign to guard and defend.
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About Race and those Ebola Handheld Thermometer Pictures on Western News Sites
Given the “loaded nature” of the objects and the situation, there are certainly ways to capture a scene like this that is not only more sensitive (and more mundane), but steers clear of the exploitive associations to race and violence.
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Benedicte Kurzen's Complex and Mysterious Photo from Ebola-Stricken Monrovia
This is one of the richest, most curious and most suggestive editorial photos I've seen in a while. I'm interested in your thoughts.
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Media-Wise, Could Everyday Africa Change Everything?
If Everyday Africa and the rest of the "Everyday" sites can maintain their momentum, a revolution is coming to photojournalism and visual news.
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Hong Kong: He Says Umbrella Revolution, She Says Post-it Note
If the umbrella is a more functional item, the Post-It note is more reflective of the word, the voice, a multiplicity of voices -- and social in the old fashioned way.
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Soul Searching Photos Replace “Shock and Awe” as Defense Industry Leads Us into Next Iraq War
As we roll almost mutely into another war, there is no end of high-priced hardware once more ready to burn.
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Sensational Ebola Pictures: Those Aren't Astronauts
Its been too easy in the West to either ignore the Ebola pictures, or pull up a chair for the horror show.
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"Hands Up, Don't Shoot," Hong Kong Edition
From the photos I've seen, the youth in Hong Kong are deploying the gesture in a less complicated way.
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From the Islamic State News Desk, Hostage-Anchor John Cantlie Reporting
This op-ed is as impressive for dialing back on the previous execution videos as for taking over a classically Western media format.
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Sarah Stacke: Love From Manenberg
This is the first installment in an ongoing series by photographer Sarah Stacke about this suburb of Cape Town and her relationships there.
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What's Up With Those Middle East Edition Businessweek Covers?
I don't know, looking at these covers they seem unusually inflamed.
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How the Pictures are Killing Us: The Dynamics of the Sotloff and Foley ISIS Videos
If the Foley and Sotloff videos felt like a piercing blow, if just from the bloodless screen shots, what is it that so pierced us?
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Philip Montgomery: From a Harlem Frame Shop
What’s impressive about the photo is how it has both a pre- and post-9/11 meaning.
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Gaza Parting Shots: Hamas Revealed, Israel No But(t)s
Fitting of perhaps the most (visually and politically) polarizing news event I can remember, the parting imagery from Israel and Gaza could not be stranger and more cutting.
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