When researchers in West Africa’s Côte d’Ivoire Taï National Park spotted vibrant orange, yellow, and black feathers, what followed looked almost like choreography. With one researcher with binoculars and another with a camera, the team managed to capture photos of a bird species that hasn’t been spotted for 13 years: The Ghana cukooshrike.
Field research fellows Paulo Ditzel and Stephanie…
Think Britain in the 1930s and, if you’ve been watching a lot of History Channel documentaries, you’ll probably picture things like hunger marches, unemployment lines and the gathering shadow of war in Europe.
All of which, of course, was very important. But as a…
Why has a photo of women holding hairdryers been awarded Global Peace Image of the Year?
October 6, 2026
Today in Afghanistan, under the rule of the Taliban, women and girls are systematically denied education, employment, free movement and basic human rights. It’s a horrific situation, and as you’d expect, most photographic projects drawing attention to these facts…
Nadav Kander's photographs show us why sometimes, fog, empty sky and flat water make better pictures than a crowded frame
October 6, 2026
With every generation of digital camera technology, we seem to be able to capture more and more visual information. The latest models lock on to eyes from long distance, drag usable detail out of deep shadows, and fire off more frames in a second than a film photographer would once shoot in an afternoon.
All of this is very welcome, and offers endless creative possibilities. Yet there’s also…
I was reading a new study on the growth of analog tech when I read a phrase that I had to stop and puzzle over: Young people are “replacing endless scrolling with ‘granny hobbies’ like crocheting and photography.”
Wait, apparently photography is a granny hobby? The…
The Ocean Photographer of the Year competition added a new category this year: Ocean Unseen: Hidden Worlds. Its focus, as the name suggests, was our oceans’ smallest and least-seen inhabitants: the microscopic and the overlooked. And its first winner, Mitsuna Kawai…
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…
When you think of images representing climate change, a number of clichés come to mind. A wind or solar farm; a lone polar bear on an ice floe. You know the kind of thing.
But while these are all real things that really exist, let’s be honest. They’ve become so…
"I spent a day shooting top-flight football with an entry-level mirrorless camera", student learns pro camera skills at Motherwell FC
October 4, 2026
The 2026-27 soccer season is now in full swing, so for anyone looking to start shooting the beautiful game – or sharpening their skills – it’s time to get inspired.
Chantelle Cook is studying photography at Edinburgh College in Scotland UK.
She only picked up a…
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…
