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Ian Berry, Magnum's Sharpeville Photographer, Dies at 92

September 17, 2026
The famed British photojournalist Ian Berry died last weekend, aged 92, following a short illness. His wife Kathie revealed on Instagram that he died peacefully, in the early hours, just as they were about to fly to the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia. His career reads like a highlights reel of 20th century history: Sharpeville, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Vietnam War…
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"It was almost ​​​​impossible to keep the camera steady. In the remote Almirantazgo Sound, the biting cold, ever-changing light and unpredictable wind forced me to readjust my stance and refocus after every blast of photos" says award-winning photographer

September 16, 2026
Wildlife photographerRodrigo González Pairoa faced challenges when capturing birds in Albatross Islet, Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica, Chile. Now his image of a Black-browed Albatross, shot with a full-frame DSLR that was released 14 years ago, was honored as the winner…
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Taken from the last years of Imperial Germany, and through the Weimar Republic into the Nazi era, these rarely seen images by pioneering portrait photographer August Sander highlight just how wide his range was

September 16, 2026
If you shoot portraits for a living, August Sander is a name you should know. His decades-long People of the 20th Century, for one, is a landmark in the discipline’s history. An attempt to catalogue a cross-section of society by trade and social type, it set the…
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How to plan and where to go for the "eclipse of the century" – the 2027 total solar eclipse

September 15, 2026
The total solar eclipse on August 02 2027 will bring 6 minutes and 22 seconds of totality – the longest until 2114 – to Luxor, the temple-strewn capital of ancient Egypt. But while media attention will focus on Luxor and the Nile, photographers actually have thousands of miles of eclipse track to choose from – including many well-known holiday locations. On August 02, the moon’s shadow…
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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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