As Helene ravages the Atlantic Coast, super-charged by the climate crisis, it helps one appreciate the scale of this RNC backdrop —as if the pumps have the engineer’s head in a vise. (Petroleum engineer Sarah Phillips speaks at RNC. Photo: Will Lanzoni/CNN.)

Quite the contrast between this mid-August NYT photo illo and the Vance we saw in the VP debate. The composition depicts the personalities of the two vice presidential nominees at their respective conventions. #shapeshifter 📷Jamie Kelter Davis (left) and Erin Schaff. NYTimes.

Join us in person or virtually on Oct 22nd for: "The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024" at ICP in New York. We synthesize the odyssey down to a handful or so of select images illuminated by visual experts. readingthepictures.media/p/join-us-for-…

I find this photo so heartbreaking. #cultureofnarcissism (Via AP’s Pix of the Week. A young supporter at a Trump campaign event Oct. 1, 2024, in Waunakee, Wis. 📷Charlie Neibergall/AP.)

Shutter Shock: The Photos that Expose Trump’s Mind in Disarray The media, barring some exceptions, sanitizes Trump's incoherence. Quotes help, but nothing exposes his confusion and chaos like visible reactions. Our #ChattingThePictures video w analysis. readingthepictures.media/p/photos-expos…

From *Shutter Shock: The Photos that Expose Trump’s Mind in Disarray,* and how photographers, photo editors, and the rest of us can counter the sanewashing of Donald Trump. (Photos - left: The Economic Club of New York right: #BrendanMcDermid Reuters Pictures.) readingthepictures.media/p/photos-expos…

#IndigenousPeoplesDay2024 📷@steffikeith

How photographers, photo editors, and the rest of us can counter the sanewashing. From: Shutter Shock: The Photos that Expose Trump’s Mind in Disarray readingthepictures.media/p/photos-expos…

Join ICP + @ReadingthePix on Oct 22 for an analysis of the images defining the 2024 US election. With Dr. Karrin Anderson, Dr. Nicole Fleetwood, Gail Fletcher, Michael Shaw, + Dr. @CaraFinnegan. In-person + live-streamed: icp.org/events/the-rea…. Image @ErinSchaff, The New York Times

Join us tomorrow evening in person or online! Other folks read the words, we read the pictures,

Halo pic of the day: His royal highness.

You could not find a more fundamental image right now. readingthepictures.org/2022/07/post-r…

Something vital got lost in Campaign 2024. #climatecrisis

Closing arguments and open questions. "Harris vs. Trump: On Gender, Power, and the Future of America" readingthepictures.media/p/harris-vs-tr…

Try telling it to the Spanish. #OneMoreThingWeMissedLastWeek

Stains, defacement, and a resurgence of weirdness characterize photos and photo illustrations accompanying the campaign's final Trump articles and opinion pieces. Is the steady bombardment of blasphemy coming home to roost? (Pix: Alex Brandon/AP; Ioulex for NYT; Doug Mills/NYT)

Not going back. (Photo: david burnett , Jan 6, 2021)

I was terribly wrong. We are.