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Monumental: Thinking Around the Meaning of Notre-Dame de Paris
Jonathan Long explores how the themes of identity and power inform Tomas van Houtryve's documentation of the rebuilding of the famous French cathedral…
Accuracy, objectivity, and trust in photojournalism
Five lessons from the journalistic failings of Jan Grarup
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David Campbell

August 2024

Postcolonial Perspectives: Arlette Bashizi on Documenting Conflict
Fiona Wachera
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July 2024

Summer Reading: A Dispatches Update
Four new articles to read, and an update about a great way to access Dispatches.
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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…
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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.

May 2024

Postcolonial Perspectives: Jodi Windvogel on Femicide in South Africa
Fiona Wachera
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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…
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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.
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February 2024

Postcolonial Perspectives: Etinosa Yvonne on Identity and Trauma in Nigeria
Fiona Wachera
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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…
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David Campbell
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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.
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