Sep 25 The time I found death, innocence and a sense of fierceness in Mexico City By Adriana Zehbrauskas I spent two years photographing a Mexico City neighborhood called Tepito, also know as El Barrio Bravo "The Fierce Neighborhood."… Continue reading
Sep 18 How gentrification changes the portrait of a neighborhood By Brittney Sankofa How I felt as a seventh-grader interviewing toothless liquor store regulars in the cold. Continue reading
Sep 11 Why I jumped the caution tape to photograph an abandoned roller coaster By Matthew Clark This shot is all that's left of the iconic Jet Star roller coaster. Continue reading
Sep 03 Do you know who took these photos? By Corinne Segal We don’t know who took these photos, or exactly when, or why. Continue reading
Sep 02 Photos give powerful visibility to chronic illness By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins “Suffering the Silence” is aimed at enabling those with chronic illness to discuss their illness publicly and on their own terms. Continue reading
Aug 18 Giving the disabled and homebound a chance to 'hike' a volcano By Joanne Elgart Jennings For millions of Americans who are bound to their homes with sickness or disability, the idea of strolling along the Seine in Paris or hiking the rim of a Hawaiian volcano is only a dream. But a Canadian photographer thinks… Continue reading
Jul 26 Watch 4:26 What happens when Photoshop goes too far? By PBS News Hour A New York exhibit chronicles prominent cases of images altered by journalists and asks: If seeing is believing, how often are you, the viewer or reader, being misled? Saskia de Melker reports. Continue watching
Jun 24 Watch 5:08 Shirin Neshat translates Iranian political unrest through an artistic lens By PBS News Hour For Shirin Neshat, "art became a kind of an excuse to build a relationship, even from a distance," to her homeland and history. Neshat grew up in pre-revolutionary Iran, then came to the U.S. as a student in the 1970s… Continue watching
Jun 10 Watch 1:25 Photographer uses camera to reconnect with homeless father By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, what happened when a photographer who documents the lives of Hawaii's homeless learned that her own father was living on the streets of Honolulu. Continue watching
May 21 Watch 4:46 Photographers chase Yosemite's rare moonlight rainbows By PBS News Hour On a clear night in Yosemite, only a few times each year, the full moon hits a misty spray of the highest waterfall in the park, creating a nighttime rainbow that is visible only through a camera lens. But this… Continue watching