These Are the Days of Scorched Earth
It seems fateful phrases are coming more easily at the moment than regular words.
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The Death of Four Gazan Cousins, Children of Fishermen
All that intensity makes the rest more unspeakable as we view the broken body of another cousin, futilely hanging on to life, as he's carried like a sack.
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The Latest Israel/Hamas Missile War: Fear at the Beach
If you are open to the comparison, the photo can't help but speak to "who's on top."
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Americans Don't Like to Lose
Why I was drawn to these pictures is because, at least in my mind, they combine a sprinkling of sport, nationalism and, in the first photo at least, hints of militarism, too.
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Staring Our War in the Face
Using the President's suit to simulate a simple dark background, the gaze makes its own larger statement.
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The Rare Memorial Day Photo: Balancing Remembrance with Just a Holiday
What I admire about these photos by Getty’s Nicholas Kamm is how fully they capture and balance both themes.
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War, Politics and Disability: Tammy Duckworth's VA Scandal Interview Photo
What’s disturbing is when objects -- especially those of deep emotional and moral value -- become the framing elements for political equivocation.
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Growing Old in Prison
If you didn't know the context, you wouldn't know these men were inmates or that the images had anything to do with the penal system.
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Missing the Big Picture: How Cecily McMillan, Convicted of Assault, Was Violently Assaulted by NYPD at M17 Occupy Protest
What is curious about Cecily McMillan's ordeal is that, in spite of the mountain of critical fragments that were captured and published, the visuals have failed to focus the public mind around a smoking gun.
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Finbarr O'Reilly and the Fabulist Art of the Israeli Bomb Shelter
What strains also is the actual imagining of a "promised" land -- with the delusional notion that, once the air raid siren goes off, residents simply meld into the Zionist dream.
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Juxtaposition of the Day: Pro-Russian Separatists Meet the NRA
Parents, babes and politial aims
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Boston Marathon 2014: Back to (the New) Normal
Funny how getting back on track looks a lot like war time.
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Remembering Anja Niedringhaus: She Was Ironic, Too
Her photography was often brilliant, not just as reportage, but as subtle commentary. If others have captured Anja the documentarian, the humanist or the advocate for women, these images demonstrate her gift for irony.
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At the Gates of Fort Hood
The expression that immediately and overwhelming ran through my mind was: "boots on the ground."
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Drones vs. Stones: A Mid-East Air War Visual Update
If both sides in the Israel-Palestine conflict are using drones, and the technology is such that even individuals can operate one, doesn't it stand to reason I'd find photo for both sides?
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Some Random Thoughts on Charles Ommanney's Americans with Guns
At this point, they only strap on the babies to tweak the Liberals.
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On the Russian Military Using Unmarked Uniforms
If soldiers are not wearing insignia, they are partially out of uniform; if they are partially out of uniform, they are that much closer to being private militias, gangs, or thugs.
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Sochi 2014/Crimea: We Are All Neville Chamberlain?
Watching the tanks roll and the blood spill this week, what it points to is a great yet silent miasma as if the Olympics took place in a bubble.
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