I’m moving Cadmium, my blog about political and cultural image-making, over to my own website. I had the space, and I figured it was time to use it for something. If you’ve looked at Cadmium before, and found it interesting, why not check it out at its new home? I’ll be updating daily [...]

Under the Lapa Arches by Sandrino
The BBC website has photos today from a new “exhibition of photographs taken by street children in Rio de Janeiro”.  The idea of the project is to give these children the means to document their own lives, thereby providing a perspective that affluent professional photographers would miss.  The organizers also [...]

White House photo by Eric Draper

Nice shot by Bush’s personal photographer from the recent surprise Iraq visit. How many “surprise visits” does that make? I’ve lost track. Bush gave a surprisingly unmangled speech (at least according to the official transcript), covering very familiar ground. He knows it’s tough being on a long [...]

I love the White House website. They can release any official images they like to the public, and this is the one they choose. And this is a White House that employs over two thousand people to implement its public relations strategies.
Let’s go through this in a bit more detail:
1. The tiny little figure [...]

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has apparently decided that he does not have sufficient evidence to pursue a criminal caseagainst Karl Rove as part of the investigation into the outing of Valerie Plame as a covert CIA agent. As shown above, Rove waspositively giddy about the decision. It’s unclear at this point whether Fitzgerald plans to [...]