Tearing Down a Middle East Dictator Statue – Chapter 2
If these dramatic scenes from Deraa, Syria, on Friday were reminiscent of anything here in the West, it was the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad's Firdos Square. (With some key modifications.)
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Alan Chin on the Middle East: Ghosts of Suez and Srebrenica
In this momentous period in the Middle East, Alan Chin reflects on military interventions that didn't happen, concerns for the one that has, and the emotional forces at play for a photojournalist now back home, while friends and colleagues remain at risk.
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Bahrain: Crushing the Pearl
Bahrain's leader's don't understand how much a public monument, especially a poetic one, is part of the emotional fabric of a city, its destruction only emphasizing its erasure and inviting every citizen to fill in the hole with a memory of the structure and the circumstances surrounding its...
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No Toto, You're Not in the Wisconsin Statehouse Anymore
I thought these screenshots -- displaying an elegant, if typical, marbled, upscale DC office complex -- made for an interesting contrast with the Wisconsin State House, as pro-union and progressive protesters upped the ante Tuesday by interjecting themselves into a lobbying seat of power.
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Nina Berman in Florida: Abortion Patient As Perp
This is what women’s healthcare looks like today. In the face of pro-life protesters and a history of violence against abortion providers, women, whether seeking abortions, morning after pills, pap tests, or HIV screening, are forcibly thrust onto an open stage where an extremely private undertaking becomes a public passion play.
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Nicole Tung in Eastern Libya: Fresh To My Virgin Eyes WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE BELOW
Nicole Tung, in Libya photographing her first war, captures the deteriorating situation of the anti-Qaddafi forces. Her story and images are raw, harrowing, and intensely honest.
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Wisconsin: The Getaway
If these men feel righteous, they can't be feeling that encouraged.
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David Degner in Benghazi: Victory Signs, Mostly (and How Arabs Play for the Camera)
Raising my camera in Libya these past two weeks, the most common reaction is a smile and the flashing of a peace sign. It is used by protesters and rebels to identify themselves as anti-Qaddafi. But Eastern Libya is not complete with "peace signs," by the way.
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Nicole Tung in Eastern Libya: The Front Line
The battle for Brega south of Benghazi in eastern Libya: Qaddafi repulsed by the opposition.
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Wisconsin Update: Trashing "the Hippies"
With Governor Walker and the GOP trying their best to undermine labor rights in the legislative chamber and also remove citizen-protesters from inside the Capitol building, this NYT story and photo gallery is ultra-negating
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Negotiate, Don’t Dictate
Following up on yesterday's Wisconsin "capture the flag" post, this protest against Gov. Christie's proposed cuts in NJ shows a new dynamic on the street.
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Nicole Tung in Benghazi: This Is What The Revolution Looks Like
Nicole Tung explores how Libyans present themselves in this first moment of liberation.
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Alan Chin on the Tunisia-Libya Border: Chaos (Controlled?)
This exodus exemplifies a dark face of globalization: Smaller numbers from richer societies are taken care of, while the masses of laborers from poor countries struggle to survive -- and that is a fundamental reason why this wave of revolt and revolution has swept across the region.
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Christopher Guess in Wisconsin: Truly the People's House
This is a second report on the protests taking place inside the Capitol Building in Wisconsin. Photographer Christopher Guess is a Wisconsin native and graduate of its university. In this post, Christopher documents how the face-off between Governor Scott Walker and citizens, students and state employees had, by mid-week,...
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Alan Chin on the Tunisia-Libya Border: A Hundred Miles
From the Tunisian border to Tripoli, it is only a hundred miles along the Mediterranean coast highway. At any moment, we journalists gathered here calculate, the revolution will reach this border and we'll be able to enter. But when or how that might happen, we can only speculate.
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Christopher Guess in Wisconsin: "We Love This Type Of Crowd"
Photographer Christopher Guess flies home to Wisconsin to document the sit-in at the State Capitol.
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Alan Chin in Cairo: Getting My Cameras Back
Censorship through confiscating equipment: The corrosion and absurdity of Egypt's bureaucracy, a small window onto how the Mubarek regime kept people under control.
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