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A family with their dog, an old woman on a fire escape, a faded Stars and Stripes – For five decades, photographer Masao Gozu walked New York's immigrant neighborhoods and pointed his camera up at people's windows

Most street photography takes place at street level. But what happens if you stop pointing your lens forward, and look up instead? A new exhibition reveals what happened when Masao Gozu did just that. The Japanese photographer spent three decades around New York’s neighborhoods, pointing his lens up at apartment buildings and capturing whoever happened to be leaning out. Now his work is…
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Deep in the Costa Rican rainforest, an adult tapir teaches a youngster to survive in the most fragile of ecosystems. Here's how this prize-winning photography captured the scene so beautifully

Established in 2008, the Fritz Pölking Prize celebrates extraordinary nature photography stories and portfolios. And this year’s winning series certainly fits that bill. Tales of the Forest Keepers, by Dutch biologist and photojournalist Michiel van Noppen, takes us into the rainforests of Costa Rica and tells the story of the extraordinary relationship between the Baird’s tapir – the…
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A student photographer wandered the streets of Detroit with a camera in 1972, then left the negatives in storage for four decades. Now they're an award-winning exhibition, and that teaches us something profound about viewing our old work

Most of us have a ton of photos that we never look at. They may be stored digitally, tucked away on an ageing hard drive. Or they may simply exist as negatives, gathering dust in a shoebox. Either way, you haven’t looked at them for years, and you don’t really want to. Because, to be honest, you remember them not being very good. We all have that very human response to stuff we did a…
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A Texan man found a photo album in a garage that may hold unseen pictures of Bonnie and Clyde. But caution over their authenticity points to a deeper lesson about how we should safeguard our own photography for future generations

If you’ve ever written names on the back of a photograph, then consider yourself a hero. Because future generations will thank you, whether they’re descendants trying to figure out their family lineage or historians analyzing stuff we don’t even know will…
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Photographer snapped multiple 1/8000 sec exposures of Venus disappearing behind the Moon to create a “bright pearl” in the sky, winning major astrophotography award

This year’s ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition saw some truly unique images, perhaps none more so than the winner of the “Our Moon” category. Taken by Czech astrophotographer Petr Horalek, the image depicts a rare lunar occultation of Venus, as the Moon passed in front of the planet for roughly one hour during a September afternoon last year. “The most beautiful moment was…
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