Visual Journalism

Long-Form Documentaries Serve a Vital Journalistic Role

Today’s complexities don’t fit into tidy news magazine packages.
September 15, 2001
Robert Richter

Documenting Social Ills With an Eye Toward Advocacy

Women’s health, homophobia, domestic violence, and rape are topics mainstream media often ignore.
September 15, 2001
Margaret Lazarus

A Photographer’s Journey Begins With a Coffin

By documenting youngsters’ lives, he hopes to understand what is happening.
September 15, 2001
Andre Lambertson

A Place for Words and Images to Call Home

At DoubleTake, photographers and writers document the human experience.
September 15, 2001
Robert Coles

Photojournalism and Documentary Photography

They are identical mediums, sending different messages.
September 15, 2001
Antonin Kratochvil
Using a Cultural Icon to Explore a People’s Heart

Using a Cultural Icon to Explore a People’s Heart

A photographer invites community members to help create new images.
June 15, 2001
Delilah Montoya

Do Images of War Need Justification?

No. Imparting information ought to be enough.
September 15, 2000
Philip Caputo

Photographers Can’t Hide Behind Their Cameras

Images of war are raw, dirty, ugly, personal and disturbing. And they ought to be.
September 15, 2000
Steve Northup

The Unbearable Weight of Witness

Vivid images of war and famine make human misery impossible to ignore.
September 15, 2000
Michele McDonald

James Nachtwey Photographs

A Hutu man who did not support the genocide had been imprisoned in a concentration camp, starved, and attacked with machetes. He managed to survive, and after he was freed…
September 15, 2000
James Nachtwey