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 image’s monochrome treatment, gives the photograph a deep emotional impact, leaving the jury with the question: “What kind…
This haunting photo shows what a seal would see in their last moments – just before the polar bear launches a deadly attack
September 10, 2026
What’s the most work you’ve ever put in to getting the shot you desire? For Arctic photographer Audun Rikardsen, it took three years of planning, one motion sensor and a hole drilled through ice to get within touching distance of this dramatic, award-winning…
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…
No one’s ever written a rulebook for street photography, but sometimes it feels like it exists anyway. Candid and spontaneous, not staged. No light but natural light. No crew, just one lone lens.
So it’s quite a surprise when Street Photography Africa, a new publication from curators Nadine Barth and Azu Nwagbogu, published by Thames & Hudson, feels like it doesn’t so much…
Say what you will about the camera phone, but it’s forever changed the way people look at photography. Years of simply pointing, tapping a screen and letting computational photography do all the legwork has imbued a good portion of the population with the belief that…
Here’s a fact that should shock you: there are, at the time of writing, only two northern white rhinos left alive anywhere on the planet. That’s right, just two.
Fatu and Najin, mother and daughter, live under permanent protection at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in…
The most famous face of the Titanic disaster belongs to a newsboy nobody thought to name – taken by a photographer nobody credited, either
September 6, 2026
It’s over a century since the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, on April 15 1912, after striking an iceberg during its maiden voyage that resulted in the loss of over 1,500 lives.
And yet, this tragedy still has a hold over our collective consciousness. So much so, that even this much-circulated photo of a boy selling a newspaper announcing it will be instantly recognizable to…
When you visit a picturesque waterfall in the middle of the day, there’s a good chance that there will be a lot of light about, even sunshine. And that makes capturing a long exposure shot of a waterfall much trickier than doing it at dusk. However, don’t let that put…
Visa pour l'Image photography festival loses its founder: why Jean-François Leroy's passing is a huge loss to photojournalism
September 3, 2026
Perpignan is a southern French city near the Mediterranean coast and the border with Spain. With a population of around 120,000, it’s pretty slow-paced for most of the year. But all that changes for a couple of weeks in late summer, when it suddenly becomes the world…
The seaside town that once called Martin Parr's photographs a betrayal is about to put his face on a mural the size of a building
September 2, 2026
The street photography of Martin Parr was always divisive. In the mid-1980s, many residents of New Brighton, a seaside resort on the Wirral in Merseyside, England, believed his work was ridiculing them. But time, it seems, heals all wounds. Now, less than a year on from his death, the town is fundraising to put a giant tribute to him on its seafront.
New Brighton Creative Futures, a community arts…
