Selfie editing can turn into ‘self-objectification’ for teen girls

When should parents worry about teen girls' selfies? Usually, they're no big deal, researchers say, unless editing becomes an obsession.

Alexis Blue-U. Arizona • futurity
Feb. 23, 2020 ~5 min

Shocking Chicago meatpacking pics shifted public policy

Photojournalism revealed the adulterated products and other horrors of the Chicago meatpacking industry, sparking both the novel "The Jungle" and real change.

Chelsea Davis-Iowa State • futurity
Feb. 18, 2020 ~5 min


Watch: Algorithm lets people walk right out of images

"Photo Wake-Up is a new way to interact with photos." See what it can do for Picasso, Matisse, and Stephen Curry.

Sarah McQuate-Washington • futurity
June 17, 2019 ~5 min

News pics of refugees don’t tell the whole story

"There needs to be a greater discussion on telling the broader story—a migrant's story doesn't end once they cross the sea or make it through the border."

Cailin Riley-Missouri • futurity
May 30, 2019 ~4 min

To thwart deep fakes, add these digital ‘watermarks’

Deep fakes—super-realistic looking fake videos—pose a major threat, but "digital watermarks" could help stop them.

James Devitt-NYU • futurity
May 29, 2019 ~4 min

Taking photos can dull your fun experiences

"We get so focused on picture-taking, we miss the experience itself."

Chuck Finder-WUSTL • futurity
Jan. 28, 2019 ~6 min

Images really matter for selling stuff on eBay

On sites like eBay, potential buyers judge products by how good they look—and photo quality plays a big role.

Melanie Lefkowitz-Cornell • futurity
Jan. 9, 2019 ~6 min

Carpenter Center show reflects racial disparities that helped fuel James Baldwin’s writing

Now through Dec. 30 at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, a series of photos shines a light on the America that author and social critic James Baldwin was responding to with his words. “Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America” tracks the social unrest that drove his writing and reflect turbulent times past and present.

Colleen Walsh • harvard
Nov. 26, 2018 ~8 min


Family’s photos from ’50s capture fading way of life in Kalahari Desert

Eight expeditions to the Kalahari Desert by a Cambridge family in the 1950s yielded more than 40,000 photographs that captured hunter-gatherer cultures on the verge of disappearing. Many of the photos are now on view at Harvard’s Peabody Museum in a new exhibit, “Kalahari Perspectives: Anthropology, Photography, and the Marshall Family.”

Faith Sutter • harvard
Oct. 1, 2018 ~9 min

Garden of ideas | MIT News

With a new multimedia website, landscape architecture professor Anne Whiston Spirn makes a secret garden public and explores how ideas create form.

Michael Blanding | School of Architecture and Planning • mit
March 8, 2018 ~7 min

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