Images are a powerful force, we absorb their content 60,000 times faster than information conveyed in text. Pictures appeal to our emotions. They can move us, make us laugh , or feel happy or sad, but they can also deceive us. Images are easy to manipulate, a process that begins the moment a subject is chosen. Elements can also then be removed, or added. But there are photographs that really reach out and grab the observer, precisely because they show things exactly as they are. Children sleeping peacefully. Refugee children from syria rarely sleep so well. And when night comes, terror stalks them. Tamam is five. She is from homs. Magnus wennman her father told us as soon as she lay down on the pillow, she started crying, because when she was laying down on the pillow, she remembered the sounds of the bombings. These children all had to flee their homes. Now they rarely sleep in a proper bed. Millions of syrian children have been displaced since the violence in their country began. Swe
About 100 city staff and other well-wishers turned out for a farewell sendoff for retiring city manager Mike Tvenge Tuesday at the Koniag Building. Tvenge, who served as the city’s
A fire broke out aboard a tugboat called the Brian T. Wednesday afternoon as it was transiting near one of the piers in Kodiak’s boat harbor. Frank Dorner