The Dutch Media's Immigrant Photo Drama
If journalists had read the caption, they would never have taken this photo of Moroccan immigrants so out-of-context.
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Tracking Pope Francis: Bergoglio – Kirchner
I'm keen for the opportunity of track the early visual coverage of the new Argentine Pope, appreciating how the power of imagery, celebrity and first impressions all converge around Jorge Bergoglio.
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Feeling Railroaded by Guns, Survivalists, Domestic Terror?
With gun control facing an uphill battle in Congress and the NYT running a feature today about more coziness between the gun lobby and Congress, I was thinking about the meaning of this newswire survivalist photo.
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Death By Slideshow: Hugo Chavez RIP
If you haven't had the chance to look at many of the Chavez slideshows, we've summarized them for you.
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A Suicide Photo
In spite of all the newswire images I look at everyday, this one keeps troubling me.
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Pistorius: Freak Science Meets Sci-Fi
Once again, it's not about trying to understand how one man ticks or how he could have gone off the rails.
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Thoughts on the Racist Businessweek Housing Cover (and Predecessor)
there is no way to tell if the illustration is decrying the practice of targeted and discriminatory lending practices by playing off white or conservative stereotypes to make a point or they are saying, in the most flat-out and racist way, that the restoration of "fair practice" to the...
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Should Pistorius-Steenkamp Killing be a Newswire Showcase for T-and-A?
Isn't this "point of view" one of the factors that get these women killed in the first place?
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Hilariously or Just Sincerely Tragic: Closing Scenes from America's Afghan War
Macho, playful or just cinematic, Burton's photos from this Reuters embed are just too innocent, too uncomplicated to be taken at face value.
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A Drone is a Drone is a Drone?
I have to wonder if this cover is actually going too far for freezing a targeting killing machine over one of America's fine planned communities.
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Some Thoughts on the Eerie "Skeleton Photo" of the French Soldier in Mali
There's a universe of difference now between the content and context of the image on the ground and what happens once swept up into the media and social media sphere. That is why the French military freaked out when it saw Mr. Call of Duty.
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Let the PR-Orchestrated, Media-Enabled Lance Armstrong Redemption Tour Begin!
I invite you to watch closely over the next couple weeks as we see Lance Armstrong morphed into a contrite, and then ultimately media-vindicated and valued public citizen again.
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But Why Doesn't the Photographer Try to Help the Man on Fire?
One thing that seemed to crystalize is just how detached the consumer is from the role, process and terms of procuring the common, if not common news image.
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How Do You Photograph Homeless for Newswire So People Actually Notice?
Here are three different moves in a photo package from Getty by photographer Brendan Sullivan illustrating: "Homeless Numbers Remain Unchanged From 2011 Despite Increase In Funding."
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With SCOTUS To Rule on Prop 8, Checking in on Visual Media and Gay Innuendo
That these scene become more familiar and even "run-of-the-mill" makes it only natural that images of male and female affection becomes less stigmatized and less tagged as outlying or even "gay" or "lesbian."
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That TIME Morsi Cover, Dictator-Size
Although the backstory by the editor-at-large ascribed all kinds of political mystique and geopolitical weight to Egypt's new president, TIME's choice to feature him on the cover in a super-closeup looks mighty awkward a couple weeks later.
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Doom in America: What The NY Post Subway Death Photo Is Really About
If there's a deeper critique of the photo, it's that the catalyst and real subject of concern is missing.
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DC Missile Tow (or: A Pointed Thought on News Photos, War and Repression)
Maybe what really makes this pic of the Capitol Christmas tree, and why this particular shot was all over the news galleries on Monday, is because, after looking at photos from Gaza and Israel for a week, its easy to associate to this as a rocket launcher.
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