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Teju Cole

Teju Cole

Photography Critic at The New York Times Magazine

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Teju Cole
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Serious Play - The New York Times

Instagram — free, chaotic and immediate — has become a place to watch great photographers work out their obsessions.
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A Time for Refusal - The New York Times

On the necessity of resisting the new normal.
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Capital, Diplomacy and Carnations - The New York Times

Taryn Simon’s photographs — knowing, unsentimental and meticulously made — attend to the details of how power works.
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Getting Others Right - The New York Times

Four photographers — three outsiders, one insider — and the perils of appropriation.
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Victory in the Shadows - The New York Times

Through blur, darkness and drift, the photographer Santu Mofokeng shows that black South Africans are more than their suffering.
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Still Lives That Won’t Hold Still - The New York Times

Maria Cosindas’s dreamlike photographs have a magic all their own.
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The Best Photo Books of 2017 - The New York Times

Work that felt not only moving but also necessary.

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What Does It Mean to Look at This? (Published 2018) - The New York ...

Images of violence can desensitize us, but they can also remind us of our common bond.
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Resist, Refuse - The New York Times

How are we to live in this? How are we to truly inhabit “resistance”?
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Dispatches From a Ruined Paradise - The New York Times

For more than four decades, Robert Adams’s landscape photographs have reminded us of what has been lost in America, and what endures.
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A Chronicle of Life and Pain in Upstate New York (Published 2018) -...

Among young women in Troy, N.Y., the photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally captures a spiral of aimlessness and trouble.
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The Best Photo Books of 2018 - The New York Times

In a time of omnipresent digital images, books remain one of the most powerful ways of showing the riches of photography.
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When the Camera Was a Weapon of Imperialism. (And When It Still Is....

In his final On Photography column, Teju Cole argues that images of human suffering often implicitly serves the powers that be.
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A Crime Scene at the Border - The New York Times

Images of brutality should do more than provide a quick emotional fix. They should indict the viewer.
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We Can’t Comprehend This Much Sorrow - The New York Times

History’s first draft is almost always wrong — but we still have to try and write it.
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In Dark Times, I Sought Out the Turmoil of Caravaggio's Paintings (...

The work the artist made near the end of his life changed my understanding of both beauty and suffering.
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Opinion | Stillness in the Sorrow - The New York Times

A photographer considers the pandemic, domesticity, intimacy, slavery and the history of Cambridge, Mass.
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Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer - The New York Times

The violence of his era can be found in his serene masterpieces — if you know where to look.
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What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us About Grief - The New Yor...

Seeing works by Sophocles and Aeschylus in their native land imparts indelible lessons about pain and memory.