Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Columbine mass shooting, students started the #MyLastShot campaign to share photos of the dead. Here's why.
Fred Ritchin
A special photography project traces the group visually, from colonialism to the group's modern atrocities.
Some French news organizations have decided not to show the names and faces of terrorists.
The ubiquity of smartphones is changing our democracy, but does it give us a license to photograph and publish everything?
"Neither a person nor a photograph should be taken at face value; it is more complicated than that"
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Fred Ritchin discusses the graphic display of war and suffering in the news
The underlying message of this year’s World Press Photo selection can be seen then as a nod to the increasingly pivotal role of social media.
During the last century, photographs of mass murder in Nazi Germany, Argentina, Cambodia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia seared the civilized conscience with their revelations...
One year ago, more than 800,000 photos were uploaded and tagged as Superstorm Sandy made landfall. On the anniversary of the devastating storm, Fred Ritchin writes for LightBox on the power of the photograph as self-documentary in 2013.
Fred Ritchin writes for LightBox on the photographic branding and rhetoric of the modern villain following the Boston bombings.
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On the advent of his newest book, Fred Ritchin writes on the power of the photograph in the modern era and the relationship between social justice and photojournalism.
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