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Notes Photo December 16, 2010

Nina Berman & Alan Chin: Broke-Beck Mountains of Madness

Glenn Beck in Wilmington, Ohio, selling $30 books, $125 theater tickets, and $500 breakfast.

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Notes Photo December 14, 2010

Nina Berman & Alan Chin: Waiting For Beck

Waiting for Glenn Beck in Wilmington, Ohio, where he performs "America's First Christmas" Wednesday. But most people are more worried about survival.

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Brenda Ann Kenneally: Troy, New York – An American Community

BagNewsSalon is pleased to offer this exclusive audio slideshow interview featuring Brenda Ann Kenneally, and a look at a small town America that we rarely see in the traditional media. Her photographs detail the dispiriting circumstances that cycle through generations of young women, a destiny that may have included...

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Notes Photo December 13, 2010

Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Dark Lord Down

Antrim Caskey's Mountaintop Mining Watch series #5: Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy is out. Their Upper Big Branch mine exploded earlier this year, killing 29.

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Notes Photo December 2, 2010

Brendan Hoffman: Thousands of Small Injustices

Brendan Hoffman from the Haitian election and why it went wrong: not just chaos or corruption alone, but a flawed process.

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Notes Photo November 25, 2010

Spencer Platt: Journey Through Cholera

Spencer Platt describes the moral uneasiness of working in Haiti during cholera outbreak.

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Notes Photo November 18, 2010

Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Mediation Fails

Fourth post of photographer Antrim Caskey's Mountaintop Mining Watch series from West Virginia on mountaintop removal by coal companies.

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Notes Photo November 15, 2010

Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Mingo Slurry

Third post of photographer Antrim Caskey's Mountaintop Mining Watch series from West Virginia on mountaintop removal by coal companies.

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Notes Photo November 7, 2010

Nina Berman: Prosperity Gospel

Nina Berman photographs Bishop Eddie Long in his mega-church and the "Prosperity Gospel."

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Notes Photo November 6, 2010

Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Moving to Appalachia

Second post of photographer Antrim Caskey's Mountaintop Mining Watch series from West Virginia on mountaintop removal by coal companies.

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Notes Photo November 4, 2010

Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Tree-planting on Kayford Mountain

Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.

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Notes Photo October 24, 2010

Mario Tama: Dan Choi

With DADT still ambiguous at best, there's more in play here than just a pleased Dan Choi after he, to his surprise, was able to re-enlist.

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Salon Photo October 17, 2010

Mike Kamber: Military Censorship — (Update: Winner of POYi Award of Excellence)

Reading the Pictures is pleased to offer this exclusive audio slideshow featuring an interview with Michael Kamber, contract war photographer for the New York Times, and a focused look at the issue of military censorship, including photos he's insisted on being seen.

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Notes Photo October 16, 2010

Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Individual Wars

Jeremy Lange's fourth post from the War At Home: The individual experiences of war.

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Notes Photo September 26, 2010

Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Surge Babies

Jeremy Lange's third post from the War At Home: Death in uniform, surge babies, and cupcakes.

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Notes Photo September 22, 2010

Stephen Ferry's "Colombia Ongoing": Ants Storm Congress

Stephen Ferry reports from Colombia: Ants on the walls of Congress, a new president, and the war continues.

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Notes Photo September 18, 2010

April Rabkin: Election Posters Highlight Propaganda Surrounding Afghan Election

It is an inspiring sight, at first: the streets of Afghanistan are saturated with campaign posters. They're on storefronts, roadside billboards, even festooning lampposts like holiday streamers. Democracy must be blooming, right?

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Notes Photo September 13, 2010

Alan Chin: Not Exactly a Party

As opposed to more critical or outlandish portraits of Tea Party rallies, Alan Chin's photos speak to the emotional underside of the so-called movement.

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