The downfall of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has taken up a new dimension, namely, it has taken up a visual dimension. This became most apparent on November 10 2012 when Armstrong tweeted a panoramic picture of himself “Back in Austin and just layin’ around”. The edge of the red curtain on the left to the…
Naoya Hatakeyama, Rikuzentakata, July 2004 © Naoya Hatakeyama Naoya Hatakeyama, Rikuzentakata, April 2011 © Naoya Hatakeyama Watching the BBC News in the aftermath of the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami on the east coast of Japan, I vividly remember the foreign correspondent reporting from a town with an unusual name: Rikuzentakata. Little did I know then…
Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The most evocative photograph to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy – a photograph meanwhile reproduced all over the world – captures Barack Obama hugging Donna Vanzant, a woman from Brigantine, New Jersey, who lost her livelihood in the disaster. Several different images of that encounter are in circulation,…