Haunting Poems and Photos From a State Torn by Fracking
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Julia Spicher Kasdorf pulled off Pennsylvania’s Route 15 on her way upstate in 2012, she noticed something she’d never seen before. Across the highway, by the restaurant where she and her husband stopped for lunch, helicopters dangling strange pendants were hovering over the mountainside.…
Shockingly Candid Photos Of Life on a 1970s Arkansas Prison Farm
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bruce Jackson got into photography as a means to an end. Working as an ethnographer studying African American work songs in Texas prisons, Jackson started taking photos for reference. While doing this work in the late ’60s, he met Terrell Don Hutto, a prison teacher…
A Firsthand Look at Teachers Training to Pack Heat
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A muscular white man in his mid-40s with a buzz cut and a tight black shirt is barking directions at the crowd: “When you hear the whistle, we’re going to line up against the yellow line on the ground. We’re practicing stance, draw, aim…Stance, draw,…
The Most Devastating Pictures From the Last 72 Hours of Fire in California
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update, July 29, 5:28 p.m. ET: A local official has confirmed that a sixth person was found dead in the Carr Fire, according to the Associated Press. At least five people have been killed in northern California’s still-growing Carr Fire, including two children and their…
Susan Meiselas’ Work Has Changed How We Think About Photojournalism. Her Retrospective Actually Does It Justice.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was fitting that not long before the opening of her major retrospective at the San Francisco MoMA this summer, Susan Meiselas was back in Nicaragua, making photos. Her coverage of the Nicaraguan revolution 40 years ago helped launch her career; now, at the opening…
The Secret Stash of Soviet Street Photographer Masha Ivashintsova
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The “photograph of the missing being…will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.” —Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography Last year, Asya Ivashintsova-Melkumyan and her husband were renovating their house near St. Petersburg, Russia (formerly, Leningrad), when they stumbled in the…