Photography

At first glance, this looks like sci-fi: a bulbous, gravity-defying tree stretching its twisted limbs towards a sky streaked with pinks, purples and cosmic dust. But nothing here is imagined. The tree is real. The sky is real. And the place is Socotra; an isolated Yemeni island in the Arabian Sea where Earth masquerades as somewhere else entirely. Swiss photographer Benjamin Barakat’s image…

A striking photograph of the rare Galaxy frog (Melanobatrachus indicus) is drawing attention to the latest report from global conservation charity ZSL (Zoological Society of London). The paper, published today (December 17 2025) in Herpetology Notes, highlights that a small population of Galaxy frogs in India’s Western Ghats is no longer detected at a monitored study site following a series…

Opening Record 2 feels less like picking up a photobook – although it is, without doubt, one of the best photography books on street photography – and more like stepping inside Daido Moriyama’s ongoing dialogue with the world. This volume brings together the images and texts from issues 31–50 of Record – Moriyama’s long-running personal journal publication – and serves as the sequel…

In the misty dawn following heavy rain, photographer Megumi Murakami waited patiently at Lake Nakatsuna in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As the morning light pierced the fog and the cherry blossoms emerged in full bloom, their perfect reflections on a glassy lake surface created what she describes as “a fantastical world.” That moment of profound stillness earned her Silver in the Fine…