The non-profit Reading the Pictures is dedicated to the analysis of news photography and media images.
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In Kent Nishimura’s Photo, the White House Press Corps Is Already Breaking Apart
CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins and former Real America’s Voice correspondent Brian Glenn at a White House event on January 15, 2026. Kent Nishimura for The New Yorker
The administration’s latest and most damaging attack on journalists—t...
“Salam,” Again: A 9/11 Image for a New Politics of Fear
Family members visit the South Pool during tenth anniversary ceremonies at the World Trade Center site in New York, September 11, 2011. Todd Heisler/Getty Images/Pool
(Adapted from a post on Reading the Pictures, September 11, 2011.)
I ca...
Pictures of the Moment: What the Eye Can’t Settle
Women look over the swollen Trishuli River in Devighat, Nepal, after flooding triggered by a glacier collapse. Ezra Acayan/Getty Images
I’m not sharing this because the ethereal light breaking through the dark clouds onto the river feels s...
In Praise of Composition
For anyone attuned to the language of photography—from photographers and scholars to visual editors and those who look closely—these are notable feats of composition.
The Order of Disorder
From: “An American City, With Troops on Its St...
The Deadline
Ships anchored this month in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran. Ali Saeedi/Getty Images
Kids splash in the Strait of Hormuz while tankers wait offshore. It’s a brilliant New York Times photo edit for an article marki...
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