November 2008
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Permanence.
On the historic morning of November 5th, people line up in front of the New York Times to get a copy of the day’s newspaper.
In a fast-paced digital world where news images pop up on our screens and then just as quickly disappear, paper seemed the only way to capture a permanent memento of the emotions most of us were feeling.
Leading US newspapers including The Washington Post, The New...
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Youth and the Election.
Say what you will, one could surmise that all those years of watching American Idol taught young people one thing. Their vote does matter. Rock the Vote, a nonpartisan political advocacy group that targets younger voters, reported that over 2.5 million new registrants signed on for this election, more than doubling the amount in 2004. And turn-out by voters younger than 30 in the 2008 primaries...
Change.
Outside of a small clothing boutique in Williamsburg, Brooklyn a chalkboard sign has the words “These Times They Are a Changin” scrawled in large blue cursive loops. Next door at the bodega, neighborhood locals in ball caps and hoodies sit on the stoop chain smoking cigarettes, talking about the events in the news and calling out smack to passerby’s who recently moved into the...