Back in Sendai from the epicenter of the Japanese earthquake, photographer Jack Price captures the ordeal, and brave spirits, of survivors.
Continue ReadingIf this picture caught the imagination of photo editors — the souvenir hung on a destroyed government tank by the Libyan rebels following a coalition airstrike — it might have a greater symbolic significance. Now that Obama has stuck his neck out — not just to bolster the Libyan insurgency...
Continue ReadingWe offer our thoughts on the trophy photos created by the homicidal Joint Base Lewis-McChord Army kill squad.
Continue ReadingIf it was just a guy firing straight into the air, this never would have made the wires.
Continue ReadingThis is the best photo of the Gaddafi-fist-crushing-U.S. fighter plane-sculpture I've seen. (And it might not been for long.)
Continue ReadingEighteen days in Egypt, Tahrir chock full of tanks, and hardly did I see a photo as phallic as this one.
Continue ReadingIn 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.
Continue ReadingTwo days later, still trying to figure out what this picture means....
Continue ReadingBahrain'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...
Continue ReadingWhat I'm wondering is how much this cover frames the intense grief and loss one would see in any culture, given the circumstances, and how much the media's response is informed by cultural stereotyping, these crying image psivoting off Japanese stoicism.
Continue ReadingI 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.
Continue ReadingWe pray for Tyler, Lynsey, Stephen and Anthony's safe return.
Continue ReadingHow a photo of the Japan tsunami plays with disaster -- and our sense of denial.
Continue ReadingThis "behind the scenes" photo from the ABC News show somehow struck me.
Continue ReadingWhether Japan's crippled reactors were painted powder blue and were just showing wear, or there was real art there, they are iconic symbols now.
Continue ReadingWhat rings most false though is the lack of desperation in the photo. This store might be running low on most supplies, but the woman down the aisle, at least to me, looks like she's shopping.
Continue ReadingI guess the main issue, in this photo, and in Japan to this point, when it comes to radiation, is: what is the definition of "minorly."
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