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## Paul Moakley


Moakley is editor at large for special projects at TIME.


![Paul Moakley](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt224a908acd92e946/698938c88fd2eeec0535c7a5/p_moakley_2-web.jpg?branch=production&width=96&quality=75&auto=webp)

## Paul Moakley


* ![Untitled, from the series 'Midnight' by Arlene Gottfried, 1984 – 2002](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58adef88675bd588/698a2267e76ad238a9639c10/Midnight-Arlene-Gottfried-013.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 14, 2022  
### [A Photographic Diary of One Man's Struggle with Mental Illness](https://time.com/6147539/photographic-diary-of-schizophrenia/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Free and tested heroin, meth, and cocain are distributed at VANDU on International Overdose Awareness Day in Vancouver, B.C. on August 31, 2021. Jackie Dives](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte41e7b1e6999e1c0/698a1dea8fd2ee228d36304b/DULF_heroin_safe-supply_011.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 25, 2021  
### [The 'Safe Supply Movement Aims to Curb Drug Overdose Deaths](https://time.com/6108812/drug-deaths-safe-supply-opioids/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Officer Mike Fanone Time Magazine Cover](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9827fd503ff40309/698a1ba9b21a9cb5af505088/TIM210823-FANONE.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 5, 2021  
### [The Story Behind TIME's Cover of D.C. Officer Michael Fanone](https://time.com/6087571/time-michael-fanone-cover/)  
Photographer Christopher Lee was at the Capitol on Jan. 6\. For TIME, he returns to photograph D.C. p...  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)
* ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8067ef0925ac4b6b/698a194b8fd2ee1a54362890/Kristina_Billy_Mother_Loss_Time.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 7, 2021  
### [A Mother Speaks Out About Opioid Stigma and The Pain Of Losing Her Son](https://time.com/5959266/mother-shares-advice-after-losing-her-son/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![A man steps out of his tent when medics arrive for a check-in at a homeless encampment in Wheeling, W.Va., on Dec. 18.  
](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt595807ff625e846f/698a185386f68eee186efda4/Homeless_wheeling_west_virginia_01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 3, 2021  
### [Why Deaths Among America's Homeless Are Soaring](https://time.com/5950759/homeless-deaths-rise-covid-19-west-virginia/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)  
* ![JEB_037 001](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1058b691a44e18cd/698a172a09208f4384417ab6/Priscilla_and_Regina_JEB_Eye_to_Eye_Portraits_of_Lesbians.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 13, 2021  
### [How a Groundbreaking Book Helped a Generation of Lesbians See Themselves in the 1970s](https://time.com/5938729/eye-to-eye-portraits-of-lesbians-jeb/)  
Photographer and activist JEB (Joan E. Biren) reflects on her groundbreaking photo book ‘Eye to Eye:...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Trump supporters with counter protesters at the Mariscopa County Elections Office in Phoenix, AZ on November 4, 2020](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd292945cc57986e6/698a13e28fd2ee7ae5361ede/Protests_Election_Arizona_2020_5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 7, 2020  
### [Scenes from Election Protests in Arizona](https://time.com/5908628/maricopa-county-arizona-protests/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![A protester with a QAnon sign at an anti-lockdown rally in Santa Clarita, Calif., May 21, 2020.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f680359936f1d4f/698a1308b3fce35eee0c73cb/QAnon_Conspiracy_Photographs_1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 17, 2020  
### [Photographing the New Age of Conspiracies](https://time.com/5898793/a-photographers-journey-through-the-dangerous-new-age-of-conspiracies-in-america/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Wheels \(1993\). “These boys were just rolling from scene to scene in front of the camera,” Hudnall says. “I seldom ask someone to pose. I just try to take the situation that’s presented to me.”](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe341cf797fd1b0b/698a111897cdff5fe86bb062/Earlie-Hudnall-Jr-Houston-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 6, 2020  
### ['I'm Just Trying to Photograph Life as I See It.' Earlie Hudnall Jr. Has Spent More Than 40 Years Documenting Historically Black Neighborhoods in Houston](https://time.com/5876372/houston-historically-black-neighborhoods/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)
* ![A memorial for Monsignor Richard Guastella, who died from Covid-19 on Thursday, outside the doors of St. Clare Catholic Church in Staten Island, NY, April 10, 2020.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f3e0beae439ce7f/698a0cc0db298734a0265359/Monsignor_Richard_Guastella_02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 12, 2020  
### [NYC Church Mourns as Priests Recover From COVID-19](https://time.com/5819634/covid-19-new-york-city-church-of-st-clare-easter/)  
Fr. Brendan Gormley talks to TIME about how the pandemic has upended his church during the holiest w...  
[U.S.](/section/us/)  
* ![The staff of the Capital Gazette, on Dec. 9, 2018, in Washington.  ](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt620df6a2f5ff9546/698a0a408fd2ee9b06360e4b/cap.gazette.Movie-Poster.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 7, 2019  
### [One Year After Surviving a Mass Shooting, the Capital Gazette Journalists Refuse to Be Silenced](https://time.com/5720470/capital-gazette-2/)  
[U.S.](/section/us/)
* ![A water-filled coffin lays exposed to the elements in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, at the cemetery in Mclean's Town, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Wednesday Sept. 11, 2019. ](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt393dbb2b3b60c4f5/698a030986f68ea4cb6ed96b/dorian_bahamas_ramon_espinosa_01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 21, 2019  
### ['Everything Was Broken.' The Photographer Who Captured the Most Haunting Photographs of Dorian and Its Aftermath](https://time.com/5679829/bahamas-hurricane-dorian-destruction-photos/)  
'I've covered hurricanes in the Caribbean the last fourteen years... but nothing compared to this on...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Opioid crisis protestors](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfeb6c651f9698adc/698944d209208fbec74134c3/opioid-crisis-book-anger-medical-pharmaceutical-companies-pharma.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 8, 2019  
### [The Public Is Angry About the Opioid Crisis. We Need to Listen](https://time.com/5525205/opioid-crisis-american-overdose-book/)  
They consider it a betrayal, says Chris McGeal, author of "American Overdose"  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Beth Macy Interview](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf0d05b89f765736c/69893990457a5256aad5f4d3/beth-macy-interview-10-questions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 6, 2018  
### [Best-selling Author Beth Macy: “We Need to Treat Addiction as the Medical Problem It Is”](https://time.com/5388350/beth-macy-dopesick-opioid-epidemic/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Three generations of mothers](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb7d53c89dcdb6b66/698892595f570f4354b20d6c/arlene-gottfried-mothers-day.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 8, 2017  
### [Remembering Arlene Gottfried: Legendary New York City Street Photographer](https://time.com/4891360/arlene-gottfried-new-york-city-street-photographer-obituary/)  
A look back at the work of a legendary New York City street photographer  
[WORLD](/section/world/)

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