3.29.2024 Headline: Days After U.N. Cease-Fire Resolution, Has Anything Changed in Gaza? Photo: Said Khatib About this photo: If a photo can answer a question, this one does: an explosion during strikes in Rafah on Tuesday night.
3.27.2024 Headline: Israeli Hostage Says She Was Sexually Assaulted and Tortured in Gaza Photo: Avishag Shaar-Yashuv About this photo: Attorney Amit Soussana recounts her story of being held and tortured by Hamas. In this photo, titled “Back home,” Soussana’s orange tabby looks up at her imploringly, as cats will. Is it true that cats purr at a frequency that can heal? I hope so.
3.26.2024 Headline: Coast Guard Ends Search for 6 Missing in Bridge Disaster Photo: Erin Schaff About this photo: This painting samples the colors of the containers on the ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge. My subconsious was perhaps at work when I drew six containers, as if they could represent the six workers who were killed.
3.24.2024 Headline: The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomires Photo: Saumya Khandelwal About this photo: Savita Dayanand Landge, below left, and her fellow workers on a sugar cane farm. Sometimes in the small details in a news story that are most affecting. In this story, we learn that without running water in the fields, women wash their re-usable menstrual rags discreetly, somehow. Just that phrase, “without running water,” says so much. Thanks to Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, the Indian state of Maharashtra has become a sugar-producing powerhouse, leading to the unnecessary sterilization of working-age women.
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