Photojournalism

Curse of the Black Gold

The cost of oil exploitation.

Photo Essay by Ed Kashi, Text by Michael Watts

 | Thu October 30, 2008

Meadowlands

The swamp between New Jersey and New York City.

Photo Essay by Joshua Lutz, Text by Robert Sullivan

 | Thu October 16, 2008

A Bitter Leaf

Inside the Bolivian cocaine trade, a family affair.

Photo Essay by Marco Vernaschi, Text by Patrick Symmes

 | Tue July 1, 2008

Phone Sex Operators

When you dial a 1-900 number, who picks up the phone?

Photo Essay by Phillip Toledano

 | Fri June 20, 2008

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The Dying Newsroom

When a paper loses its way.

Photos by Martin Gee; text by Laura McClure

 | Wed April 30, 2008

Mexican Superheroes

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's an immigrant!

Photo Essay by Dulce Pinzon

 | Tue April 1, 2008

Aryan Outfitters

Meet the KKK's seamstress of hate couture. With audio.

Photo Essay by Anthony Karen

 | Thu March 27, 2008

Waiting for Godot in New Orleans

Beckett's play in The Big Easy.

Photo Essay by Paul Chan, Text by Nick Baumann

 | Sat November 24, 2007

The Anime Within

Fans of cosplay ask: Are you fact or fiction?

Photo Essay by Elena Dorfman

 | Wed November 7, 2007

Sea Change to the Arctic

As climate change melts the permafrost, native villages slip into the sea, taking a way of life with them.

Photo Essay by Robert Knoth, Text by Julia Whitty

| Sat September 1, 2007

I Love a Man in Uniform

Gun control goes out the window when the Marines take Manhattan.

Photo Essay by Nina Berman

 | Fri August 31, 2007

School of Shock

Why are we treating autistic kids like enemy combatants?

Photo Essay by Larry Sultan, Text by Jennifer Gonnerman

 | Mon August 20, 2007

Hidden Half: Women in Afghanistan

Behind the veils.

Photo Essay by Lana Šlezic, Text by Elizabeth Gettelman

 | Sat June 30, 2007

Fitting Tribute

Remembering murdered loved ones in Miami's Liberty City.

Photo Essay by Hank Willis Thomas, Text by Robert Andrew Powell

 | Tue May 1, 2007

Black Friday Blues

Before you head to a mall, here's proof positive that shopping doesn't make you happy.

Photo Essay by Brian Ulrich

 | Thu March 1, 2007

Israel's Security Fence

Inside a Palestinian border town.

Photo Essay by Jakob Schiller

 | Thu December 21, 2006

More Equal Than Others

How humans interact with animals.

Photo Essay by Jan van IJken, Text by Mother Jones

 | Tue October 31, 2006

Chernobyl 20 Years Later

Radiation's long impact.

Photo essay by Lionel Delevingne

 | Mon May 8, 2006

Unembedded in Iraq

The faces of the war-ravaged country.

Photo Essay by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Kael Alford, Thorne Anderson, and Rita Leistner,
Text by Phillip Robertson

 | Mon December 19, 2005

Darfur's Scorched Earth

Sudan's militias and refugee camps.

Photo Essay by Olivier Jobard, Text by Monika Bauerlein

 | Thu September 1, 2005