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These solemn photos show what it's like to come home after a formidable flood

8:57pm July 28, 2024

by Diane Cole

In this era of climate change, dramatic floods are everywhere. Photographer Gideon Mendel has made it his mission to show the aftermath. training his camera on people flooded out of their homes.

Photographer Owens Daniels satands in front of his photos.

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Photography exhibit celebrates African American physicians in the Triad

3:49pm June 12, 2024

by David Ford

The Triad Cultural Arts exhibition "The Wellness Keepers" celebrates local African American physicians, and elevates the need for routine doctors visits within the Black community.

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El Massry took this photo of a felucca sailing down the Nile in the south of Cairo on a morning in 2022. He digitally framed the image with a photo of a window in an old antique shop, and in his signature style, added a bird or two.

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These dreamy photos of historical Cairo will transport you to another time

6:54am April 28, 2024

by Malaka Gharib

Photographer Nour El Massry captures ethereal images of Egyptian landscapes, interiors and architecture in one of the world's largest megacities.

A man looks at the smoke rising next to the Army General Command in Khartoum, Sudan, on April 16, 2023.

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Photos: A year of war in Sudan

4:57pm April 15, 2024

A year of war has torn through Sudan, causing devastation and more than 8 million people to be displaced.

The moment of totality during a solar eclipse in Glendo, Wyo., on Aug. 21, 2017.

Simple tips to safely photograph the eclipse with your cellphone

11:10am April 03, 2024

by Scott Neuman

Some people with expensive photo equipment are hoping to get the perfect shot during Monday's total solar eclipse. But for the rest of us, a cellphone camera is what we have to work with.

In Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, oil bunkering — the practice of siphoning oil from pipelines — has transformed parts of the once-thriving delta ecosystem into an ecological dead zone, according to the U.N. Environment Programme.

Mercy me: Photos show what humans have done to the planet in the Anthropocene age

9:31pm March 29, 2024

Anthropocene refers to the age of humans — the things we've done to Earth. Geologists just rejected a proposal to declare an official "Anthropocene epoch." But everyone agrees: Damage has been done.

Evan Russel's photo of Yosemite's firefall in late February.

Capturing Yosemite's gorgeous — and elusive — natural 'firefall'

5:00am March 04, 2024

by Michael Levitt

Photographer Evan Russel and fine artist James McGrew set out to capture an elusive natural phenomenon. But as they discovered, nature can be fickle.

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Afqir Itto lives in the valley of Ait Hamza in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Ait Hamza is known for its sheep, whose wool is used by the women weavers of Itto's cooperative.

PHOTOS: What it's like to be 72 — the faces (and wisdom) behind the age

10:16am March 03, 2024

by Laurel Dalrymple

We live in a rapidly aging world. A new global photography project captures the lives behind the statistics by documenting the lives of 72-year-olds — the world's median life expectancy today.

QUSRA, WEST BANK — Sisters, wives, mothers, and cousins of the village of Qusra gather to mourn their Palestinian loved ones killed by armed Israeli settlers just days after the Oct. 7th Hamas attack. Click here for the full story.

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NPR photos around the world that moved us in 2023

10:31am December 31, 2023

There have been touching moments — sometimes away from the headlines, and the front lines — that have moved the world this year.

Ten-month-old Ahmin Esas, who was born with clubfoot, shares a moment with his mother and brother in the family's home near Battambang, Cambodia. As a single parent with limited means, his mother, Pho Sok overcame many challenges to ensure her son could receive the treatment he needed.

Unforgettable global photos of 2023: Drone pix, a disappearing island, happiness

7:16am December 31, 2023

by Gabriel Spitzer

Pictures of happiness, of a disappearing Sierra Leonean island, of a pair of flip-flop-clad feet poking out of the Indian Ocean surf: Here are our photo stories from 2023 that we won't forget.