Bob Collins
It happened yesterday in beleaguered Ferguson, Missouri. A cop and a protester hugged. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: 1000 Words
Bangladeshi commuters board a train as they rush home to be with their families in remote villages, ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. Read more →
The Chisholm-based Minnesota National Guard 114th Transportation Company came home from nine months in Afghanistan this morning. Read more →
You probably only get one chance in a lifetime — if that — to meet the leader of the free world.
Don’t blow it. Read more →
Do you suppose this picture is going to sweep across meme-land today? President Obama met with Texas Gov. Rick Perry and other Texas officials on the brewing immigration calamity there in which hundreds of young people are crossing the border, overwhelming the state. No doubt, the picture isn’t about the issue — photographers weren’t allowed Read more →
You have to love a town that loves its library. Read more →
This is the face of unemployment. A 10 year old girl so worried that her dad hasn’t been able to find work for the last three years, that she hands his resume to the wife of the president of the United States.
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I’ve been searching in the last few weeks for the perfect photo to describe Minnesota in winter. The frozen-beards, ice-fishing, pond-hockey-playing, ice-cave visiting, bike-riding snapshots have been fascinating — certainly more fascinating than pictures of your car dashboard. But this one is a perfect description.
It’s hard to know how to feel about the big story surrounding this photograph: It’s the type of picture that photographers take when they get the assignment to go out and shoot pictures of the cold weather. There’s always homeless people around, trying to stay warm. This homeless person, Nicholas A. Simmons, 20, of Greece, Read more →
Who were the people in the Navy Yard shooting photo? Now we know. Read more →
1,000 words: The cellist
1,000 words: The funeral
What makes the image of soldiers guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in hurricane rain particularly poignant is the individual soldiers from the Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment do not have to.
Sometimes the people you fear the most, the people who others once thought unworthy of the benefits of freedom, become the very picture of it.
La Tomatina, the annual festival in Bunol, Spain, is a photographer’s dream, and apparently a place for lovers, too.