When Canoe Country Goes Under

At a Minnesota summer camp, a submerged fleet shows how climate risk is rewriting the visual language of “wilderness adventure.”

Jul 26 • Cara Finnegan

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My 4th of July is ... the Next U.S. World Cup Match

Forget Trump's politicized pageantry. The most authentic display of American patriotism is playing out on the pitch.

Jul 4 • Michael Shaw

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June 2026

France's Heatwave Was a Mass-Casualty Event. The Photos Don't Look Like It

Feeding the public ice cream is much easier than confronting true danger and suffering.

Jun 29 • Michael Shaw

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Political Theater: Erasing Donald J. Trump Off the Kennedy Center

The striking images, political symbolism, and spectacle of taking his name down — and the drag queen still standing.

Jun 17 • Michael Shaw

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May 2026

Surrender: How Trump Lost the Iran War, in Pictures

From blind bet to bloody stalemate — the visual record of a war Washington didn't understand and couldn't spin.

May 27 • Michael Shaw

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April 2026

Gilded Age and Days of Rage

At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the photos show a country on edge: privilege upstairs, gunfire downstairs, and Trump turning violence into…

Apr 30 • Michael Shaw

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Caught My Eye: War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things

From missiles to shackles, baby chicks to alien troopers — cameras have found war in every corner, and it's metastasizing.

Apr 7 • Michael Shaw

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March 2026

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback

A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front.

Mar 18 • Michael Shaw

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Trump's Iran Debacle: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Missiles

These NYT's Opinion visuals make Trump the poster boy for his own Middle East blowback

Mar 9 • Michael Shaw

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Trump's Iran War Big Lie

The address to Congress was wall-to-wall military symbolism — medals, heroes, even Pete's Blue Angel. It was everything you could ask for — except what…

Mar 4 • Michael Shaw

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February 2026

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime

A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power.

Feb 23 • Michael Shaw

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Caught My Eye: Crushing the Press, Chinese Speed, Tulsi’s Tricks, Epstein’s Trail

A quick read on images of motion, spectacle, and selective seeing shaping the latest politics.

Feb 12 • Michael Shaw

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