The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Ron Paul — As Normal as Deep Fried Butter
To the extent this gives Paul a bit of a pious cast, it's makes him as normal, right now, as deep fried butter.
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Jake Price in Japan: Five Months On
Jake Price returns to the earthquake and tsunami devastated zone in Japan, where cultural celebration renews life alongside mountains of debris and for some -- bleak prospects for the future.
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Is Bachmann Sexy?
Is Bachmann bringing something sexual to the photo or the campaign, or is she more the Madonna to Palin's other kind of energy.
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Perry, a Prayer and a Cookie
Given how his candidate has been working the God-card, Jeff seems like the perfect endorsement for his man.
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Comic Relief –Team Newt Laying Eagle Eggs
With all the bad stuff in the air right down, we thought you could use a more featherweight look at the Iowa scramble as we count down to Saturday's Ames Straw Poll.
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Prayerful Bachmann Flaunts Separation of Church and State
In reading the news accounts, and then examining Brendan's photos, it seems that policy, advocacy, testimony and prayer is now all simmering in the same soup.
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Pawlenty Shooting Blanks; Bachmann Certainly Isn't
One might say that Pawlenty deserves points for being so unscripted, but I'm afraid being "unpackaged" these days requires an even slicker package.
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Jake Price in Japan: The Road Back
Jake Price reflects on photographing the aftermath of Japan's earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown, as he embarks to return for a follow-up journey to the disaster zone.
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Bachmann's Inner Child
Not to be condescending, but do you sense a strong elementary quality here with a childlike feel to many of these faces and bodies?
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The Picture from Iowa, 2012: The Bachmann Versus Pawlenty Voter
Photographer Brendan Hoffman is in Iowa leading up to the Ames Straw Poll on August 13th. We'll be following him and looking at what his photos suggest about the candidates, Campaign '12 and the current political climate.
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David Degner & Alia Malek in Cairo: Permanent Revolution
As Revolution has become a permanent part of daily life, so has Tahrir Square acquired vendors, barbers, siphoned electricity ... and mint tea.
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John Moore: Surviving the U.S. Recession
We at BagNews are proud to provide this audio slideshow drawing attention to a recession that may have ended on paper, but in practical terms, continues to plague so many Americans. Also, we are pleased to offer this forum to John Moore, a compassionate and truly gifted photographer so...
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Danny Ghitis in Poland: Stealing From Auschwitz
Photographer Danny Ghitis analyzes the phenomenon of people stealing from the Auschwitz death camp museum.
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Christopher Guess: Stonewall Moment of Victory
"EVERYONE was on their phones, checking Twitter, myself included," Christopher Guess reported from the West Village as the crowd awaited the outcome of the same sex marriage vote.
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Mario Tama: Spicy Tuna, Giant Clam and Radiation Roll
This photo from a N.Y. sushi restaurant takes on a different sense given that the ocean off Japan will likely soon up its glow, and those domestic nuke plants we've been rock-bottom assured are bulletproof might not be.
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Cool Pics from Failing States
FP has a penchant for futility rankings accompanied by like-minded slideshows.
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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Red Scarves On Blair Mountain
Close to 1000 supporters marched to abolish mountaintop removal coal mining and to re-list Blair Mountain on the National Historic Registry. They retraced the route coal miners walked in 1921 when they clashed with mine operators and the federal government in what was the largest armed uprising in the...
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Mark Ovaska in West Virginia: "Strip Mining Prevents Forest Fires"
Outside activists meet local hostility (partly from the union) as battle over mountaintop mining continues.
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