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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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Resist, Refuse (Published 2018)

How are we to live in this? How are we to truly inhabit “resistance”?
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Dispatches From a Ruined Paradise (Published 2018)

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 (Published 2018)

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 (Published 2019)

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 (Published 2020)

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 (Published 2021)

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 (Published 2023)

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 (Published 2023)

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