Every spring along the Texas highways and farm roads a dazzling mix of wildflowers (bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush, white prickly poppies, evening primrose, groundsel, and more) capture the attention of motorists. Interestingly the floral success stems from a government program that began shortly after the Texas Highway Department was created in 1917. Back then officials realized [...]

Washington DC; March 28, 2012: A circus like atmosphere was on display in front of the Supreme Court as demonstrators for and against President Obama’s health-care law made their voices heard. Inside the Court, Justices heard the final arguments over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which brought out the ideological divide within the [...]

FIGHTING BACK recording the sound track 2012 On Sunday March 18 four of the worlds leading jazz artists entered Euphoria recording studios in New York City to lay down the music for the upcoming short film “Fighting Back” by FCDA photographer Anthony Suau. The film shot in and around inner-city Cleveland over the period of [...]

St. Patrick’s Day – Times Square 2012 Constantly moving and reconfiguring themselves to sway our attention, the extraordinary pieces of reflective light, emanating from the towering glass buildings, fall into New York’s Times Square and turn the ever changing kaleidoscope into hotspots of brilliance and a backdrop of darkness. On St. Patrtick’s day each mirrored [...]

Brenda Ann Kenneally (left) with photo workshop participants. Photo by Jenny Magruder The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York is exhibiting Facing Change’s photographs and hosted a slideshow and workshop with FCDA photographers Brenda Ann Kenneally, Andrew Lichtenstein, and Alan Chin last week, as part of of their non-profit programming serving the New [...]

Master photographer Stephen Shore (center) prepares to shoot the first in a series of videos on Facing Change: Documenting America in collaboration with Leica Camera.

The New York Giants Super Bowl victory parade moves down Lafayette Street past a massive crowd of fans at Foley Square as Giants quarterback Eli Manning holds up the Vince Lombardi Trophy. As the team passes the crowd screams and surges forward to get a view. A surreal scene in lower Manhattan. Fans climbs to [...]

OccupyDC protestors covered the statue of General James B. McPherson on the square they are occupying after the National Park Police declared that they would start to enforce long-standing regulations prohibiting camping on federal park land. The Park Police had given the protestors latitude in the past, but were responding to pressure by congressional Republicans [...]

Back stage with Elizabeth Krist, the organizer of the seminar, and Kurt Mutchler (just behind her), the Director of Photography of the National Geographic. FACING CHANGE co-founder Anthony Suau presents Facing Change: Documenting America at the National Geographic seminar on the heels of a collaborative grant from NGM to FCDA. © David Burnett