John Oliver of The Daily Show films a spot in front of the MSNBC tent at on the campus of Washington University prior to the vice-presidential debate. Robert Cohen | Post-Dispatch

Did anyone see The Daily Show on Monday? If you…

Today I was at Lambert St. Louis International Airport making pictures for an upcoming business story. As I sat in the hallway shooting the tarmac through the window, two nuns walked by. One of them commented on the niceness of…

Starting this week, hundreds of hungry photographers invade a small Kentucky town, as they gather for the annual Mountain Workshops, also commonly referred to as a bootcamp for photojournalists. It’s organized by the good folks of Western Kentucky University’s photojournalism…

In the hustle and bustle of Friday night’s deliberation of the $700 billion bail-out plan in the United States Senate, another bill passed through without much knowledge of the Senators themselves. The S. 2913 Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Bill looks to…

This week I had the incredible opportunity to be a faculty member at the Missouri Photo Workshop in St. James, Missouri. In short, the MPW is the first and oldest documentary storytelling workshop in the country. Each year participants find…

As someone who visited China about 20 years ago, I am amazed at the progress that country has made in such a relatively short time. It has gone from a nation with few cars and a modest standard of living…

War photojournalist James Nachtwey will release his TED project on Friday through a combination of a web stream and LED screens in 7 continents. As one of the top photojournalists ever, this webcast is definitely worth your time.

More about TED:

The TED prize…

I know it’s mundane. But it didn’t seem so mundane when I  was driving down Bircher Blvd. along Interstate 70 and saw this old “Miller Time” sign left next to a trash container for pickup. It was behind a row…

It was a mixture of happiness and nervousness at the naturalization ceremony for the 62 perspective U.S. citizens last week at the Old Courthouse in St. Louis. Happiness because achieving citizenship in this country, to some, means the end of a…

Just when I thought Leica was on death’s door, especially with the mess that has been their M8 and now M8.2 (for over $6000! just for the body), they release a radically new camera system that seems aimed squarely for…