53 Pics That Show Photography
Is The Biggest Lie Ever
(Šarūnė Bar, boredpanda, 2016)
Altered Images.
Exhibition of disputed images in photojournalism and documentary photography, with photos that have been faked, posed, or manipulated, representing over 150 years of such images. From the Bronx Documentary Center.
Center for Media and Social Impact, CMSI.
Innovation research center and lab that creates, studies and showcases media for social impact; at the School of Communication of American University.
Docs Teach.
The online tool for educators to teach with documents, from the National Archives. Access primary sources, borrow activities, and create your own activities.
Gulf Photo Plus.
Dubai's center for photography.
The International Center of Photography.
From the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture.
Majority World Photo Agency.
Working with photographers from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East to gain unique insights into local cultures, environments and development issues. This is an an initiative of Drik, a picture library based in Bangladesh.
NASA Image and Video Library.
Search and view images, audio and video images and files of space and the environment, from the NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Visual Thinking Strategies.
Educational non-profit that trains educators in schools, museums, and institutions of higher education to use a student-centered facilitation method to create inclusive discussions.
World Press Photo Foundation.
Independent, nonprofit group in Amsterdam formed to support global photojournalism. Runs an international annual photojournalism competition.
Zone Zero: Photographic Convergence.
A Pedro Meyer Foundation's Project. Bilingual in Spanish & English. Collection of photography and essays about photography from around the world.
Source: International Center of Photography
10 intriguing photos to teach close reading and visual thinking skills (Michael Gonchar, NY Times, Feb 27, 2015)
34 Incredibly Interesting Photos from History (Adrian Willings, Pocket-lint, Dec 16, 2020)
Announcing a new monthly feature: What’s going on in this graph? (Michael Gonchar & Katherine Schulten, NY Times, Sept 6, 2017)
Artist Reimagines Famous Paintings with the Quirky Cast of the Simpsons (Emma Taggart, My Modern MET, May 14, 2021)
These three pictures make a powerful statement about race and power among women (Sarah A. Harvard, Mic, May 16, 2017)
Benetton Unhate Campaign Features Kissing World Leaders (Jenny Filippetti, designboom, Nov 16, 2011)
Hiding Covid-19: How the Trump Administration Suppresses Photography of the Pandemic (Peter Maass, The Intercept, Dec 27, 2020)
The history of 2017 in seven charts (Mona Chalabi, The Guardian, Dec 29, 2017)
How photography can transform social justice in America (Sarah Lewis, Fast Company, May 19, 2016)
Making Sense of Documentary Photography (James Curtis, Wordpress, 2014)
Photo League. A cooperative of photographers in New York focused on using photography for social justice. Founded in 1936 and ended in 1951 when the US government blacklisted them as "unAmerican."
Police body cameras: What do you see? (Timothy Williams, James Thomas, Samuel Jacoby, and Damien Cave, New York Times, April 1, 2016)
Rupert Cornwell: Why 9 out of 10 Americans love statistics (Independent, Oct 23, 2011)
The secret tricks behind misleading images of fitness success (Mordan Clendaniel, Fast Company, Nov 6, 2013)
This Is What You See When
A Photographer Takes The Same Photo From a Different Angle
(Micky Wren, Atchuup! Cool Stories Daily)
“What’s documentary about photography?: From directed to digital photojournalism” (Jason Mraz, Zonezero, Jan 2003)
What’s Going On in This Picture? (The Learning Network, NY Times, Dec 17, 2020)
Forensic Architecture (research agency that investigates human rights violations with techniques in spatial and architectural analysis, open source investigation, digital modeling, and immersive technologies.)
Glenna Gordon's photographs (images seldom seen of abortion in Buzzfeed, April 28, 2022)
Submerged Portraits by Gideon Mendel (South African photographer documenting the climate crisis through portraiture).
Chobi Mela Photography Festival (biennale Asian photography festival, organized in 2000 by Drik Picture Library Ltd. and Pathshala South Asian Media Institute)
Burn Magazine (since 2008 Burn has been a platform to support emerging photographers)
(Reuters Graphics, Dec. 31, 2019)
Seeing Through Photographs, from MoMA. This course aims to address the gap between seeing and truly understanding photographs by introducing a diversity of ideas, approaches, and technologies that inform their making. Look closely at 100 photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, going behind the scenes of the Museum, into artist studios through original films and audio interviews, describing a variety of perspectives on the ways photography has been used in its 180-year history.
Analyze a Photograph: Worksheet (National Archives)
Common Core in Action: 10 Visual Literacy Strategies (Todd Finley, Edutopia, Feb. 19, 2014)
Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum (Annenberg Learner)
Focus on Photography: A Curriculum Guide (Cynthia Way, The International Center of Photography, 2006)
Photo Ethics. The Photography Ethics Centre is dedicated to raising awareness about ethics and promoting ethical literacy across the photography industry through podcasts, online training, guest speaking, and interactive workshops.
So a Monkey and a Horse Walk Into a Bar (This American Life, Nov 10, 2017, 58:44 mins.). About copyright for a monkey's selfie.
How Your Face Changes in Different Lighting (NukeLeo FPV, Opale, Apr. 25, 2014, 1:51 mins.)
Sebastião Salgado: The Silent Drama of Photography (May 1, 2013, 16:53 mins.)
When Photoshop Goes Too Far (PBS News Hour, July 2015, 4:26 mins.)
Essentials of Teaching and Integrating Visual and Media Literacy, by Digital Gerrymandering (Sam Levine, The Guardian, Aug. 22, 2021)
The Effect of Map Bias on Developing Countries (Borgen Project)
Gerrymandering Fonts (UglyGerry)
Mapping My World & Community
(Critical Media Project, 5:35 mins. video
with teaching instructions & student examples)
Project LookSharp (two media literacy teaching units on mapping: Mapping the Border: Who Decides? and Mapping Ancient Civilizations: Who's Included and Who's Not?)
Your World Map is Wrong. So Wrong. See How the World Really Looks (James Hitchings-Hales, GlobalCitizen, April 18, 2019)
Books About Maps
How to Lie With Maps (Book by Mark Monmonier, 1996, University of Chicago Press)
Rethinking the Power of Maps (Book by Denis Wood, 2010, Guilford Press)
Seeing Through Maps: Many Ways to See the World (Book by Denis Wood, Bob Abramms, & Ward Kaiser, 2006, ODT Inc.)
Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities (Book by Frank Jacobs, 2009, Viking Studio)
Types of Interactive Maps
Crime Map in Los Angeles (updated by the Los Angeles Times)
eBird (Explore hotspots for birds, by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Envirofacts (U.S. EPA, interactive map of environmental hazards)
Food Environment Atlas (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, mapping food environmental indicators)
Google Earth (this program allows you to virtually fly around the globe and gain a birds-eye view)
Map Air Quality (U.S. EPA, interactive map of air quality monitors)
Map of the cancer-causing industrial air pollution in the US (ProPublica, 2021, also available in Spanish)
Mapping Police Violence (independent research collaborative)
Maps of U.S. State Parks & maps of U.S. National Parks
Native Land (this map locates the names of the original inhabitants of land, listing languages, treaties, and territories)
White Collar Crime Risk Zones (The New Inquiry, 2017). To challenge problems of racial profiling and biased policing, this map redefines predictive policing)
Mapping the Tongva Villages of L.A,'s Past (By Sean Greene and Thomas Curwen, May 9, 2019, Los Angeles Times)
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