Archive - Reading the Pictures

The Picture Perfect Democratic Convention - Part 2

In part two of my visual round-up of the 2024 DNC, I look at the wooing of the middle class, the visibility of the Uncommitted delegates, the thrill of…

Sep 6 •

August 2024

CTP Video Podcast: A Single Image Tells the Story of the 2024 DNC

Watch our 4-minute Chatting the Pictures podcast analyzing Todd Heisler’s photo of Amara Ajagu watching her great aunt, Kamala Harris, deliver her…

Aug 30 •

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The Picture Perfect Democratic Convention - Part 1

In Part 1 of my DNC roundup, I explore the pivot from Biden, Dems laying claim to the flag, women's empowerment in Harris's rise, and family, inclusion…

Aug 28 •

The Harris and Walz Magnetism in One Frame

Introducing our podcast: A special Democratic Convention edition of Chatting the Pictures.

Aug 18 •

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Chatting the Pictures: The Trump Crazy, and that Viral Olympic Surfing Pic

In a pair of videos, we read a brilliant Mark Peterson image exposing the ever-more-damaged Donald Trump and riff on an almost supernatural photo from…

Aug 15 •

Besides RNC Fever Dream, a Perfect Photo of "the New Weirdness"

A single word threatens to expose the Trump/MAGA madness. Sinna Nasseri's twilight-zone picture embodies the moment.

Aug 1 •

July 2024

Crafting Trump's Hero Narrative: Media's Visual Complicity in the Assassination Drama—and the Shoe Panic Explained

Now that Trump has spun the attack images into convention hype and marketing gold, we dissect the media's role, address the problem with the bullet…

Jul 23 •

"Climate Ecstasy" and More: Our Photography Round-Up

It's true—people value the pictures we choose just as much as what we have to say about them.

Jul 8 •

June 2024

The Most Cringeworthy Media Visuals After Biden's Nightmare Debate

Nobody wants to revisit what happened on stage, so we focus on the media fallout and the visual framing of the first 2024 presidential debate, for…

Jun 29 •

If This Summer is Anything Like the Last

If this summer is anything like the last, the climate crisis will destroy more norms, we will gasp, then forget, and photographers will continue to…

Jun 12 •

May 2024

Blind to the Apocalypse: The Climate Emergency has Fallen Off the Radar

I'm sharing these images from Southern Brazil to place the planetary crisis front and center.

May 17 •

Racism, Symbolism, Story: More Notable Images from the Campus "Free Palestine" Movement

In our second post on the "free Palestine" campus protests, we focus on the institutional divide, portraits and emotions, police actions, and more…

May 9 •

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