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Accuracy, objectivity, and trust in photojournalism

Five lessons from the journalistic failings of Jan Grarup

Sep 2 •

August 2024

Postcolonial Perspectives: Arlette Bashizi on Documenting Conflict

Aug 27

July 2024

Summer Reading: A Dispatches Update

Four new articles to read, and an update about a great way to access Dispatches.

Jul 26 •

David Campbell, VII Insider

Artificial Intelligence and the Threat to the Real: An Interview With Mutale Nkonde

Mutale Nkonde, CEO of AI for the People, speaks about algorithmic racism in the databases that drive large language models and how this bias shapes…

Jul 24 •

David Campbell, VII Insider

Walking with Intent: Juan Travnik’s “Materia”

Arturo Soto explores how a modern photographic flâneur captures the transition from deindustrialization to gentrification in Buenos Aires.

Jul 10

May 2024

Postcolonial Perspectives: Jodi Windvogel on Femicide in South Africa

May 31

Twenty Pounds of Headlines Stapled to His Chest: Unbranding Robert Capa

Robert Dannin asks if Capa’s iconic D-Day photographs are all they seemed, and reviews A.D. Coleman's award-winning investigation of Capa for what it…

May 27

March 2024

The Infinite Resonances of a Single Word: Marisol Mendez’s "Madre"

Arturo Soto on a representation of the cultural conventions that define how women are perceived in Bolivian society.

Mar 20

February 2024

Postcolonial Perspectives: Etinosa Yvonne on Identity and Trauma in Nigeria

Feb 20

Documenting the Danger to Democracy

How photographs of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol counter the rewriting of history and demonstrate the importance of visual journalism in the…

Feb 6 •

December 2023

The Political Price of Dreams: Pablo Cabado’s "Little Suns on Earth"

Arturo Soto looks at a photo book telling the story of a failed nuclear energy program in post-World War II Argentina.

Dec 15, 2023

November 2023

Redefining the Image: Miguel Rio Branco

Leonardo Carrato spends a day with one of his greatest inspirations and interviews the Brazilian photographer Miguel Rio Branco.

Nov 16, 2023

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