Every Child You Meet Is Named Muktada
They name their neighbourhood after the father of Muktada al-Sadr, the young rebel cleric at the head of the Mahdi Army, one of uncountable restive rebel groups in the country.... But most important is the projection that the Americans are not indestructible and that they are not in control...
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Like Yesterday
Bound for Glory: America in Color is the first major exhibition of the little known color images taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information (FSA/OWI). Comprised of seventy digital prints made from color transparencies taken between 1939 and 1943, this exhibition reveals a surprisingly...
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St. Rita Ongoing
In considering all the failures associated with the Katrina disaster, how are we to understand the abuse of the grief process? Because we’re all pretty much friends here now, and I, along with you, have tacitly contracted to participate in the ongoing analysis of the prominent political images of...
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Katrina Aftermath: And Then I Saw These
Until last night, I thought the news images we had seen from New Orleans during the worst days of Katrina were fundamentally unvarnished. And then I saw these. Among his peers, Alan Chin is regarded as one of the finest photojournalists in the field -- and I say that...
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War Without Edit
If you’re faint of heart, I don’t recommend these images to you. But I commend Salon for running this article, "The Unseen War," along with the devastating photo gallery. As someone who is regularly featuring war images, I’m continuously uneasy that I’m mostly showing the "more consumable" content. Am...
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