Islamic dress debate provides fodder for artists In 2011, France became the first European Union country to ban women in public from wearing veils that cover their faces. But the debate over Islamic dress in Europe didn't stop there. Since then a number...
A lens on Venezuelan street crime "The drug trade is why we still have the government we have." Adriana Fernández first wielded a camera at the age of 16 to take pictures of friends involved in the graffiti scene in her native city of...
Correa critic barred entry to Ecuador "There has to be an end to an era of silencing people and impeding them from going to the streets to discuss the problems with the government." Manuela Picq was detained in Ecuador's Ministry of Interior...
Honduran environmentalist’s murder resonates a year later "The government doesn’t want to get to the bottom of the killing because it involved people from the government itself." Silvio Carrillo always knew that there were death threats against his aunt, the...
Anthropologist sparks controversy over contacting isolated tribes “I don’t want to sit back here...and just watch these groups get smaller and smaller and then blink out.” In June of 2014, a video showing a man giving bananas to two previously loincloth-clad tribesmen...
Photojournalism legend Clarkson opens up on career “Right now we are all living in a golden age of photojournalism. It’s here and now, and you are lucky to be a part of it.” Rich Clarkson has become an icon in the field of sports photojournalism. He has...
Project Exile: Cuban ‘kamikaze’ journalist in Miami exile "I had to walk like 40 or 50 miles into other provinces, trying to reach a place where I had a good enough internet connection to post pictures." In the early 2000s, Cuban journalist and poet Luis Felipe...
Ferguson reshaped columnist’s career Tony Messenger knew that his journalistic career would never be the same after the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo. In the days after the unarmed 18-year-old black man...
New management at Politico after growth As Washington adapts to a Trump administration, one of the Beltway’s most encyclopedic chroniclers is still in the midst of its own shakeup. Politico, the news site founded in 2007 by former Washington...
Photo essay: Documenting the death penalty "If people can see the reality of the death penalty, no one would want it any more." Since the U.S. Supreme Court ended a de facto ban on the death penalty in 1976, the U.S. has executed 1,440 people. But the...
