The Denver Post publishes a collection of stills by Emilio Morenatti, an Italian photographer for the AP who currently covers South Asia. We hear a lot about Pakistan these days: a taliban putsch, terrorism, civil unrest, angry lawyers, madrassas, honor killings, poverty, a failed state. What I like about these pictures is that they portray these abstract ideas in situ — on the ground, in vivid, emotional detail on the faces of real people. A single very good photo attached to one newspaper story can be effective, but taking in a couple dozen of those pictures says something about the whole that the parts can’t:
