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…
Remembering When the Ramones Were Young, Raw, and Couldn’t Take a Bad Photo
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Danny Fields discovered and signed the Stooges and MC5. He worked with the Doors and rubbed elbows with the Velvet Underground. That famous John Lennon quote about the Beatles being bigger than Jesus? That was largely Danny’s doing, running Lennon’s quote in the teen magazine…
They Came Here Seeking Freedom and Were Imprisoned Instead. Look at Their Faces.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When asylum seekers arrive in the United States they face a harsh reality. The ones who they aren’t illegally turned away at the border are often sequestered, shackled, and transported to a detention facility that resembles prison. Since the mid ’90s, the US has followed a policy of…
Portraits of Suffering and Resilience in Puerto Rico Six Months After Hurricane Maria
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today marks six months since Hurricane Maria made landfall and ripped through Puerto Rico, lashing the island with winds well above 155 miles per hour and devastating the homes and communities of many of its 3.4 million residents. Many people forget that three weeks before…