al Qaeda Glamour
I'm wondering, what with al Qaeda going Cosmo (if we're still keeping score nearly 10 years after 9/11) if the West has finally won.
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I'm On a Drug Called Charlie Sheen #3: "The Science of Charlie"
From the Bag series: I'm On a Drug Called Charlie Sheen. Yes, media can be vial.
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I'm On a Drug Called Charlie Sheen #1: "What I'm Really On"
The Charlie Sheen phenomenon. Our first take.
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Danny Ghitis in Poland: Ordinary Life in Auschwitz
In a departure from our usual focus on contemporary news imagery, BagNews is excited to launch this series from photographer Danny Ghitis, who has been traveling to Poland and exploring the subtle and nuanced nature of memory, history, and ordinary life in Auschwitz:
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Wisconsin Update: Trashing "the Hippies"
With Governor Walker and the GOP trying their best to undermine labor rights in the legislative chamber and also remove citizen-protesters from inside the Capitol building, this NYT story and photo gallery is ultra-negating
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The Arab Lens: Friendly/Good vs. Scary/Bad
To the extent the democracy-seeking Arabs tend to look like us, and do their revolution-making in peaceable and prettified ways, we love them and love to look at them. On the other hand, though, to the extent "they" start to look more angry, more violent, and either more...
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Assad Portrait: Like the Folks Next Door
Vogue couldn't have picked a more opportune time, or a more renowned photographer, to cozy up to a Middle East dictator and his former investment banker wife.
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Framing Arab/Islamic Youth, Then and Now
I'm curious about Western media's agenda in the way it's spinning the revolution taking place across the Arab world.
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Alan Chin in Cairo: Getting My Cameras Back
Censorship through confiscating equipment: The corrosion and absurdity of Egypt's bureaucracy, a small window onto how the Mubarek regime kept people under control.
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War Vs. Summer Camp: Hipstamatic Debate Just More Distraction Game?
It doesn't bother me all that much that Damon Winter shot "A Grunt's Life" using an iPhone with a Hipstamatic app. What does bother me is how much the impassioned debate surrounding the aesthetics of Winter's images takes place at the expense of their content.
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What's Wrong with the World Press Choice of "Photo of the Year"?
If the selection of Jodi Bieber's photo of Aisha as the editorial photo of the year is meant to focus our minds on the plight of Afghan women in the context of the war, I've got some problems.
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Snickering Super Bowl Ads: Whiny Liberals Mowed Down in Logging Accident
There was a lot of violence yesterday during Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast, although most of it happened during the commercial breaks. How could red-blooded, faux patriotic right-wing America not have cheered!
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Alan Chin in Cairo: Power In Flux
BagNews contributing photographer Alan Chin's first dispatch from Cairo. How my cameras were impounded, and the mood on the street.
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Egypt Uprising: Reuters’ Saint Obama
With the President pressing Mubarak to begin "an orderly transition" from power, however, is this Reuters photo illustrating a Reuters article actually calling out Obama for sanctimony?
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David Degner in Cairo: The End of the Show?
As photographer David Degner explains, his photo in Cairo on Wednesday possibly represents the last instance of the Egyptian government and the police tightly controlling protests, and protest photos, for show.
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Tiger Hostility (Or: A Swipe at the Read Chinese)
I can't help wondering if this cover is less about "tough love meets Dr. Spock" than it is about immigrant bashing and a back-handed swipe at China.
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