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Streetlights shine through the mist as two beavers touch noses, in a wetland on the edge of a building site in Olsztyn, Poland. Here's how Jan Wieczorek photographed this award-winning scene

Think of the word “rewilding” and you’ll probably imagine remote valleys and wide open spaces, far off in the countryside. But rewilding can be just as impactful in urban environments, and the winning image in this year’s Rewilding Europe Award is a great example. Captured by Jan Wieczorek in 2025, the night-time shot features three beavers lurking in the shallows, two of…
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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…
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After a unique viral photo, nature photographer tells us how the "surreal experience" of being blocked on social media was hilarious – and we think he has a point!

Photographer Carl Bovis was shocked to be told by former New York attorney Regina Alberty that she was blocking him on social media for the heinous crime of posting an unflattering photo of a bird. She implied he had deliberately made the image look bad because he disliked the woodpigeon, saying: “Usually photographers try to take pictures that favor the subject. Do you even like the subject…
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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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“We wanted to use the largest canvas we could find to put photographers front and center” – 25 artists just got their photos displayed on billboards across the US

VSCO has announced the first 25 images of The Fifty, an initiative to display 50 images from 50 different professional photographers on billboards or large-format out-of-home placements in their home state. In these times of unprecedented uncertainty for photographers, the photography and social media platform wants to highlight the creativity and dedication from artists all over the…
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His photographs are famed for giant sets and fairytale fantasies, so why is Tim Walker shooting portraits on plain white backgrounds?

If you don’t know much about fashion photography, you might assume it’s relatively straightforward stuff: dress a model, pose a model, shoot a model. A quick flick through the pages of a modern fashion magazine though, and you’ll be swiftly disabused of that notion. At the high end of the market, a contemporary fashion shoot is more like fine art, and there’s no finer…
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