Belgian Distress Over World Press Winning Pictures: Considering News Photos in a Larger Atmosphere
The fact that city representatives or the public-at-large would take issue with such depictions has been primarily characterized by the publishing world and the photo establishment as misplaced, as a misunderstanding of press photography rather than some misunderstanding or insensitivity on the part of the industry toward the public.
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An "Eye Flying" Photo: News Pics Playing With Perception
If most people who saw this in various "photo of the week" galleries simply thought, "that’s cool," I think there’s more to it than that.
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War Photography Family Portrait of the Year
What I find so powerful is how much Alexey Furman's photo from Ukraine manages to capture and express war as an act of domestic violence.
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On Those Migrants Up a Pole (POYi Spot News Award)
What is it about this photo of Sub-Saharan migrants high up a pole in Spain’s border town of Melilla that earned a POY award?
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World Press, Spot News: Tangled Up in Blue
Sure, the cops got their girl. But for goodness' sake, is a riot police scrum supposed to look so glamorous?
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World Press Photo: As Much About News as About the Human Condition?
The picture of “Jon and Alex” seems to also be part of an emerging trend among the winning photographs of recent years: a cinematic aesthetics that combines artistic compositions with invitation to storytelling.
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Picture of the Year (Sports Feature): What is it About Men and their Balls?
It could have landed on his shoe. It could have bounced and landed on that other guy's straw hat. But, it didn't.
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LGBT Love and Anxiety: The Ambiguity and Politics of the World Press Photo of the Year
Perhaps the noirish quality serves as a buffer but this photo is at least as tense as it is tender.
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POYi Winning Photos: Is the Freeway the New Protest Battle Ground?
Stopping these throughways provide a way for the movement to demonstrate that business-as-usual has got to stop, and that citizens -- especially those that simply watch on TV -- need feel it, too.
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Priests and Protests: Looking Back on the Photography from Kiev Square
Protestors armed themselves against government forces with whatever was available to them, creating a visual mash of color and symbolism, the clergy ministering throughout.
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Too Much Art in a News Photo? West Bank Rhythm and Flow
The infusion of creativity into the news photo is not just an art itself, but is often a slippery slope.
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A Preliminary Thought As We Enter Photojournalism Award Season
I appreciate that a news photo deserves to be judged and valued as a professional artifact. It's not nearly so straight forward, however.
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Pro Vs Amateur, and the Instagram Gallery On The New York Times Front Page
I don't see how this front page impacts the pro versus amateur argument in that big a way. Not as much, at least, as the blizzard of (free) publicity bestowed on Instagram and Facebook.
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You Know What's Strange About The Viral Photo of the Blacked-Out Eiffel Tower?
It makes you wonder (or makes me wonder, anyway) about rhythms in the universe.
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Why We No Longer Have to See the Thing We’re Looking At
What’s brilliant about the photo that it’s as audacious and unique as it is inevitable.
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Looking Back on '14 With Compassion and Depth
I've been continually moved this year by imagery that took difficult situations and found a deeper human element.
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The Beauty of LA Burning
LA burning isn’t beautiful because LA deserves to burn. LA burning is beautiful because we can see it that way.
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Mindful of Rice, Garner and Brown: Gordon Parks's Two Black Boys and One White Boy
I wish I could tell you how I would have read the picture before. Instead, I made acquaintance with it while immersed in the photos from Ferguson.
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