For most Americans, an understanding of the war’s end in Afghanistan came through the pictures they saw. Afghans...
Sep 10, 2021
The optics of the end of the Afghanistan War
President Biden’s recent announcement that all remaining U.S. troops in Afghanistan will return home by Sept. 11, 2021,...
Apr 23, 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
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
So you’re suddenly a photographer: a field guide
Editor’s note: Ben Brody, GroundTruth’s director of photography, shared some of the insights he learned during his time...
Jun 12, 2020
Ground Rules: Photojournalism advice from our director of photography
This column originally appeared in Navigator, GroundTruth’s newsletter for early-career journalists. Email Address For this edition of Navigator,...
Jun 09, 2020
Kent State and the photos that changed a nation
There are some photographs so ingrained in the public mind that they hardly need to be described. For...
May 05, 2020
Kentucky
Kentucky: Introduction Kentucky is the second of five reporting legs of Crossing the Divide. In the heart of...
Oct 11, 2017
Struggling in Rural New England
Struggling in Rural New England: 'Undercurrent of anxiety' Emilie Poulin, a 32-year-old mother living in Marlboro, Vermont, says...
Nov 01, 2016
The Handover: A drawn-out drawdown of US troops
It's already the longest war in American history, and the end is nowhere in sight. Though President Obama...
Jan 04, 2016
