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North Korean Border Photos That Challenge Today’s War Hysteria
It is completely expectable to see North Korean soldiers aiming their rifles at photographers across the South Korean or Chinese border. And that’s exactly what we see several of the photographs in...
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At Trump’s Invitation: Revisiting Pulitzer-Winning Philippine Drug War Photos
Daniel Berehulak’s photos and text of the drug war in the Philippines were published by The NY Times last December. At the time, they presented a grisly tour of the lethal campaign new Philippine...
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Photography Challenge: Straddling Female Stereotypes as Women Become Marines
As if we needed any reminders of the glacial pace of progress, the #MeToo movement has exposed the underbelly of misogynist and predatory behavior that many women still endure on a daily basis. Race,...
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Mexican Forces Give Their All for the Cameras to Placate Trump
When you see visual journalists from the major newswire organizations in a particular scene and what is happening isn’t a pre-planned, public function, you’re safe to consider it a media event. And,...
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There Won’t Be Blood: Gun Violence and Visual Censorship
To show or not to show? When does publishing photos of carnage become exploitative, gratuitous and pornographic, and when does it become critical information and a prompt for change? Photojournalists,...
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The Disappearing Island: Censorship at Guantánamo Bay
A recent New York Times photo-essay called “A Look Inside the Secretive World of Guantánamo Bay” ends not with pictures of men in orange jumpsuits or the cellblocks that house them — images that might...
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Trump Hospital Photo Ops after El Paso, Dayton Mass Shootings
At a hospital in El Paso, Texas where survivors of a mass shooting were being treated, President Donald Trump and Melania Trump posed for a photo with a baby who was orphaned after a white nationalist...
View ArticleChatting the Pictures: Amazon as World’s Lungs; Hong Kong Lasers; Bulletproof...
Welcome to the latest edition of Chatting the Pictures. In each 10-minute webcast, co-hosts Michael Shaw, publisher of Reading the Pictures, and writer and historian, Cara Finnegan, discuss three...
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Toxic Nationalism: The Tomb of the Unborn Soldier
Sometimes even the most spectacular failure can produce intriguing results. In an attempt to rally followers for the pro-life cause, the Illinois Federation for Right to Life (IFRL) posted a bizarre...
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Under MAGA, the Convergence of Militia and State
You’re looking at a member of a group called “We Are KY Gun Owners” standing in the main legislative hall of the state Capitol building in Frankfort, Kentucky. He was allowed by security personnel to...
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