1/ News photography after Trump. Our predictions:

•Drama withdrawal. Audience drop. Much slower news cycle, especially WE's. More media use of documentary photography. (📷 @Sarsilbs @Bloomberg @GettyImages)
2/ News photography after Trump:

•Covid takes center stage. Wide-scale response. Govt in action. Visualizing science. Who's inoculated? Recovery fact & fiction. (📷  @apufotos @AFPphoto Tarzana ICU)
3/ News photography after Trump:

•Biden empathy trumps compassion vacuum. All disasters/crises recognized as such, w aftermaths. Emphasis on grief/loss rituals, honoring victims/casualties, especially *the half-million.* 📷 @erinschaff @nytimes
4/ News photography after Trump:

Climate emergency finally finds footing as Covid recedes. Although visual depiction--beyond icebergs, mega-fires, hurricanes & youngs up in arms--remains a challenge. (📷 @paddysnapshot @AFPphoto @gettyimages)
5/ News photography after Trump:

Immigration focus returns. More eyes on Dreamers, refugee rights, borders camps, caravans, critical workforce. @UMarcelino @reuterspictures
6/ News photography after Trump:

US rejoins world. More features & #visualinvestigations. Summits & @UN a thing again. More focus on leaderless protest movements, Iran deal, Israel & Palestine, That Putin. US concern revives photo-savvy Hong Kong resistance? @lamyikfei @nytimes
7/ News photography after Trump:

More focus on social justice, income & gender inequality, labor rights, rent justice, reproductive rights, etc. Besides protests, more case studies, personal profiles, exposes. (📷 @ericseals @freep Redressing eviction at Detroit precinct Dept 10)
8/ News photography after Trump:

Disproportionate visibility of attention-seeking far-right extremists and officeholders. It sells. ( @Jacquelyn_M, @erinscottphoto @AP_Images)
9/ News photography after Trump:

Trump not disappearing. Look for more rallies and stunts. Even reveling in the court appearances. He needs the strokes. Add, the old paparazzi treatment. 📷 @evanvucci @AP_Images
10/ News photography after Trump:

•Generational shift in high gear. More coverage of woman legislators & leaders, especially younger ones from both parties. Feinstein retires. @coreyTphoto
11/ News photography after Trump:

•DC/Hollywood love-fest restored. High brow culture too.

📷 Mike Theiler @UPI
12/ News photography after Trump:

WH photographer/photography: So long to boom mikes, thumbs up, red blood X-mas trees, prez center of every pic, empty binders, photo-op summits.

Return to candid vs posed style (exhale!), but you can only pray for @Obama/ @PeteSouza level.
13/ News photography after Trump:

Biden framing: As Covid abates, pix see goofy slide (Like Gerry Ford). Harris high visibility brings w it both good #LawrenceJackson pix as well as persistent controversy over racial/gender framing. (📷 Keith Srakocic/AP; @Tyler_Mitchell_)
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