For most Americans, an understanding of the war’s end in Afghanistan came through the pictures they saw. Afghans...
Sep 10, 2021
Uprooted: Life after the mines
It was July 1, 2019, and David Pratt Jr., a fifth-generation coal miner living in Linefork, Kentucky, was...
Sep 08, 2021
Essential Appalachia
Most days since the COVID-19 pandemic started, Alexis Batausa has laced up his running shoes and headed for...
May 06, 2021
The Capitol riots through the lens of a photojournalist
Images of MAGA-hatted rioters crashing through police barricades and vandalizing the U.S. Capitol reverberated around the world yesterday,...
Jan 07, 2021
Photographers capture a world after war in ‘Imagine: Reflections on Peace’
Peace is not simply the absence of war. It is a complex and often-fragile condition that requires courage...
Dec 03, 2020
The center cannot hold
Editor's note: This project took shape as journalists are struggling to reckon with their responsibility to counter...
Nov 06, 2020
10 years since the Arab Spring, ‘an explosive situation’ builds in Tunisia
In 2010, a young man named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire and later died. His suicide kicked...
Sep 16, 2020
Driving Home: Surviving the Housing Crisis
For the past year, CatchLight Local Fellow Yesica Prado has documented the culture of vehicular living in the Bay...
Aug 07, 2020
Vanishing West Virginia
This photo essay is part of a series exploring the dimensions of daily life in West Virginia, “coal country”...
Jul 22, 2020
‘May tulips grow from your blood’: Of martyrdom and identity in Iran
Martyrdom, a religious motif deeply rooted in Shiite Islam, has played a central role in the process of...
May 28, 2020
