--- title: Fred Ritchin | TIME description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/author/fred-ritchin/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/fred-ritchin/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Fred Ritchin ## Fred Ritchin ## Fred Ritchin *  Apr 18, 2019 ### [Columbine Students Are Asking: Will Sharing Photos of the Dead Change Our History of Violence?](https://time.com/5572607/columbine-gun-violence-campaign/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 14, 2018 ### [A Visual History of ISIS](https://time.com/5260620/isis-visual-history-magnum-photos/) [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Aug 5, 2016 ### [Should News Outlets Show Photographs of Terrorists?](https://time.com/4438929/terror-attack-photos/) "Looking at their faces, or knowing their names, in no way is an affirmation of their lives or their... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jul 11, 2016 ### [In the Livestream Era, 'the Trauma Is Widespread'](https://time.com/4400930/philando-castile/) The ubiquity of smartphones is changing our democracy, but does it give us a license to photograph a... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jun 20, 2016 ### [Why Photos Don't Always Tell the Truth](https://time.com/4374225/photography-innocence-guilt/) "Neither a person nor a photograph should be taken at face value; it is more complicated than that" [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Sep 2, 2014 ### [Why Violent News Images Matter](https://time.com/3705884/why-violent-news-images-matter/) Fred Ritchin discusses the graphic display of war and suffering in the news [WORLD](/section/world/) * ![World Press Photo of the Year 2013.

Feb. 26, 2013. African migrants on the shore of Djibouti city at night, raising their phones in an attempt to capture an inexpensive signal from neighboring Somalia. Djibouti is a common stop-off point for migrants in transit from such countries as Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, seeking a better life in Europe and the Middle East. ](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb140cbe84f410442/6987e616cd6848439809cf99/01_john-stanmeyer2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) Feb 24, 2014 ### [What the World Press Photo of the Year Means for Photography](https://time.com/3807388/world-press-photo-what-it-means/) The underlying message of this year’s World Press Photo selection can be seen then as a nod to the i... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jan 28, 2014 ### [Syrian Torture Archive: When Photographs of Atrocities Don't Shock](https://time.com/3426427/syrian-torture-archive-when-photographs-of-atrocities-dont-shock/) [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Oct 24, 2013 ### [Superstorm Sandy, One Year Later: Self-Portraits by Communities in Distress](https://time.com/3803460/superstorm-sandy-one-year-later-self-portraits-by-communities-in-distress/) One year ago, more than 800,000 photos were uploaded and tagged as Superstorm Sandy made landfall. O... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jul 22, 2013 ### [War of Images: Rolling Stone, Tsarnaev and the Branding of a Tragedy](https://time.com/3801050/war-of-images-rolling-stone-tsarnaev-and-the-branding-of-a-tragedy/) Fred Ritchin writes for LightBox on the photographic branding and rhetoric of the modern villain fol... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  May 29, 2013 ### [What a Photograph Can Accomplish: Bending the Frame by Fred Ritchin](https://time.com/3799860/what-a-photograph-can-accomplish-bending-the-frame-by-fred-ritchin/) On the advent of his newest book, Fred Ritchin writes on the power of the photograph in the modern e... [WORLD](/section/world/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/fred-ritchin/","name":"Fred Ritchin"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/fred-ritchin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/fred-ritchin/"},"name":"Fred Ritchin","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/fred-ritchin/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```