Our Man at the G20 (#3): The Show Remains All Too Familiar
Looking at these Jason Andrew photographs, Perhaps the G20 protests are a lot like the establishment after all.
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Our Man at the G20 (#2): Radical Split
But who was the real enemy on the streets of Pittsburgh for the G-20
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Our Man at the G20 (#1): Behind The Protest
Over the coming week, BAGnewsNotes will be looking at last week's G20 protests in a way, we hope, that defies conventional thinking. To begin our inquiry, we offer (something wrong with) four girls on a roof doing a little drinking while hanging out on Friday night.
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Ken Light’s California: Going to Seed (Hallelujah!)
I'd like to spend some time looking at work by Ken Light, one of the country's best social and documentary photographers.
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Your Turn: 9/11/09 and Rebirth of the WTC
On this eighth anniversary of 9/11, I'm interested in the photo-documentation of the World Trade Center reconstruction.
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BAGnewsOriginals: Fire Watching
I wanted to share this photo with you from BNN contributer Nina Berman of the raging fires in British Columbia.
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Our Man in Xinjiang
BAGnewsNotes contributer Alan Chin filed these photos and this brief report this afternoon on the violence in Xinjiang:
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BAGnewsNotes contributer Zoriah Miller recently spent some time on the streets of Paris with homeless refugees from Afghanistan, many of whom served as translators for the U.S. military.
Continue ReadingOur Man In Tiananmen: Then and Now (Or: It's A Hell Of A Lot Better Using An Umbrella Than A Machine Gun)
Some comments from contributer Alan Chin, who made these photographs in Tienamin Square yesterday on the twenty-year anniversary of the famous massacre.
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Grand Rapids Auto: The Obama Bankruptcy Announcement
This is the third post of a BAGnewsOriginals series, Grand Rapids Auto, exploring the economic crisis through the life of a family-owned Chrysler dealership. The image above captures customers and staff of the dealership watching President Obama on TV announcing Chrysler's bankruptcy and restructuring, April 30, 2009.
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The Texas Pioneer Adventure Is Closed
This photo, taken by contributer Nina Berman, shows an Iraqi immigrant on a group visit, with other Iraqi women, to a park and arboretum in Texas. It does not specifically show discouragement or exclusion. It does not specifically demonstrate Iraqi refugees coming to the U.S. in a pioneering spirit...
Continue ReadingGrand Rapids Auto: The Owner
This is the second post of a BAGnewsOriginals series, Grand Rapids Auto, exploring the economic crisis through the life of this family-owned Chrysler dealership.
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Grand Rapids Auto: An Introduction
Christina Clusiau is a New York based photographer who has been returning to her hometown in Northern Minnesota to photograph and interview members and employees of her family’s auto dealership, in light of the economic crisis which has forced the car companies to ask for bailouts from the federal...
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Gitmo Details #1: Club Survivor
In conjunction with Daylight Magazine , BNN takes a look at a series of images by photographer Christopher Sims taken at Guantanamo Bay.
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Walled Street Protest
Noting the relative lack of emotion, enthusiasm, anger, BNN contributer Nina Berman offers us this view of the Wall Street protest this weekend.
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Reflecting On The Meltdown
In this photo from yesterday's anti-capitalist demonstration in New York's financial district, Getty photographer Mario Tama captures America's split between anger and denial and haves and have nots.
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World Press Photo Awards/Your Turn: Now War Is Coming Into People’s Houses Because They Can’t Pay Their Mortgages
The winner of World Press Photo, the most visible and prestigious photojournalism award was announced today. The picture, by Anthony Suau, shows an armed officer of the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department moving through a home in Cleveland, Ohio, following eviction as a result of mortgage foreclosure.
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Ground Zero 2009
I find this image from Mario Tama particularly fitting given Obama's crack down today on executives whose firms have been scoring bail-out dollars.
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