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This bird's fearsome, wide-open beak looks like it's picking a fight – but actually it's just a chick asking for food

September 14, 2026
Glance at this image momentarily and you get an instant sense of how this bird on the left is feeling. Fierce. Defiant. Ready to take on all comers. That open beak, that unblinking stare. It has “apex predator readying for battle” written all over it. Well, that’s what I thought anyway. Turns out I was totally wrong. According to the Italian photographer who took it, Philipp…
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Baldwin Lee waited until the streets of New York had emptied of people, then took these photos with a 4x5 view camera that have sat unseen for 47 years

September 13, 2026
Every morning, a young Chinese-American photographer fresh out of Yale would set an alarm for well before sunrise, drive from New England into Manhattan, then haul a wooden box camera and a tripod out onto pavements that were, by design, as empty as he could find them. That was Baldwin Lee’s routine through the winters of 1975 to 1979. Lee was using a 4×5 view camera, his first time…
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"I spotted a female Common Merganser with a flatfish take to the air to protect her catch from other mergansers. I was thrilled to snap this frame, but I worried it wouldn’t be tack sharp. It was!" says award-winning photographer

September 12, 2026
When Gail Bisson retired as a doctor, bird photography was at the top of her list. Since then, she has traveled the world photographing birds, building an impressive collection of international awards. Now Bisson has added another prestigious honor to that list. Her striking…
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“I just put down my cameras and wept.” He was only on the job for two months. Photographer Mario Tama still captured some of the most devastating, poignant images of 9/11

September 11, 2026
Mario Tama had only been working as a photojournalist for Getty Images for about two months – not yet long enough to consider himself a true New Yorker – when he got the call from his editor. A plane had hit the World Trade Center. Unable to call a taxi, he ran towards the devastation, camera in hand – and 25 years later, Tama’s photographs of 9/11 remain a devastatingly poignant part of…
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Photo of tiny seahorses gathered around their 'father' after being released into the world wins prestigious award. "We spent countless hours searching in difficult conditions, with no guarantee of finding a single seahorse," says photographer

September 10, 2026
A powerful and incredibly detailed black-and-white image of an adult seahorse releasing newly born juveniles into the wide world has won the top prize of this year’s Ocean Photographer of the Year competition. The seahorse’s posture, combined with the…
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“You cannot look away from the hurt, the stress, the exhaustion, the bravery, and the pride.” Joe McNally captured life-sized Polaroids of 9/11 first responders on a camera the size of a small garage. 25 years later, he revisits the story

September 9, 2026
The aftermath of 9/11 brought an estimated 400,000 first responders – the largest number of mobilized rescue workers in American history. But one New York-based artist photographed 9/11’s heroes, families, and survivors with a camera so large, the photographs feel almost like meeting them in person. Joe McNally’s life-sized Polaroid series, The Faces of Ground Zero, went on to capture 272…
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