MeFi Projects

For the past almost 40 years, Treb Heining has engineered the balloon drops at every Republican National Convention and most Democratic National Conventions. I photographed how he and his team inflated and then dropped 100,000 balloons on the final night of the RNC this year in Milwaukee. [more inside]
posted by msbrauer on Oct 18, 2024 - 3 comments

A photographic examination of the 2020 campaigns and the people's response to Trump. [more inside]
posted by msbrauer on May 8, 2019 - 0 comments

Photos from the New Hampshire presidential primary. [more inside]
posted by msbrauer on Feb 1, 2016 - 4 comments

The Twitter campaign #BringBackOurGirls helped galvanize a response to the kidnapping of 276 Nigerian girls by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram in early May. Accompanying the hashtag are images that have been reposted thousands of times—by everyone from Chris Brown to the BBC. The only problem? These are pictures from Guinea-Bissau, three years ago, of girls that have never been kidnapped.
posted by genben9 on Jun 7, 2014 - 1 comment

A retrospective of World War II in large-size photo stories. 900 photos in all, over 20 chapters, telling many of the countless millions of stories from the biggest conflict and biggest story of the 20th century. [more inside]
posted by kokogiak on Nov 1, 2011 - 5 comments

A couple of years ago, I announced right here in the green a new Big Picture blog I was starting up. It did very well - so well that I was able to make this into a fulltime job with the Atlantic Magazine, and I'm really happy to announce that my new blog "In Focus" is live as of today, and I would certainly love it if you stopped by or helped spread the word. [more inside]
posted by kokogiak on Feb 9, 2011 - 7 comments