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Hannah Bloch, an editor on NPR's international desk, shared this photo her great-grandfather took in 1931, with Notre Dame in the background. He had served as a U.S. Army doctor in France during World War I and returned on holiday years later.

World News

Here Are Some Of Your Favorite Memories Of Notre Dame

6:06pm April 17, 2019

We asked our audience to share thoughts after fire devastated the beloved Paris cathedral on Monday. We received hundreds of responses — photos, memories, even watercolor sketches. Here are a few.

The 2019 Pulitzer Prizes are getting handed out Monday.

WATCH LIVE: Pulitzer Prizes Name A New Crop Of Winners For 2019

8:34pm April 15, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

Prize Administrator Dana Canedy is stepping behind the lectern Monday to deliver good news to distinguished journalists, authors, musicians, scholars and others ranging across 21 categories.

A drawing made by a coca farmer shows his memory of government airplanes destroying his fields in 2005 as part of Plan Colombia, a U.S.-funded program to counter drug trafficking and insurgency.

World News

In Colombia's Coca Heartland, Photos And Drawings Show Life Between War And Peace

8:00am April 13, 2019

by Laura Beltrán Villamizar

A Venezuelan photographer travels to a Colombian coca-growing region and uses instant photography and drawings to portray a country in limbo.

This 1991 photo became famous in the climbing community after appearing in a 1995 Patagonia catalog. Almost three decades after the photo was taken, Jordan Leads, the baby pictured, is grown up and tells NPR about her perspective on the photo.

Arts

The Flying Baby From A Famous 1995 Patagonia Catalog Photo Is All Grown Up

2:03pm April 10, 2019

by Scott Simon

Jordan Leads lives in Las Vegas now and is studying to become a court reporter. An avid rock climber, Leads says she might want to re-create the iconic photo with her own child one day.

Lola and photographer Moriah Ratner share a quiet moment. The two considered each other close friends. Ratner says sometimes Lola would grow sad, knowing that "the only reason" she met Ratner was because of her sickness.

Health & Safety

Lessons In Life And Death From 12-Year-Old Lola

3:00pm March 31, 2019

by Moriah Ratner

Lola Muñoz entered a painful experimental treatment for a rare type of brain cancer, hoping to ultimately help other children down the line. Photographer Moriah Ratner captured her journey.

Women and children evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants wait to be screened by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the desert outside Baghouz, Syria, on Feb. 27.

World News

With The Collapse Of The ISIS 'Caliphate,' A Camera Lens Lingers On Those Left Behind

11:16am March 24, 2019

As U.S.-backed forces fought in recent weeks to reclaim the last territory held by ISIS in Syria, photographer Felipe Dana turned his lens on the thousands of civilians rushing to evacuate.

"The cities were swallowed up, others were abandoned by as many of the inhabitants as were able to make their escape." – Strabo. Southern Jordan Valley, Jordan. 2016

Infertile Crescent: A Photographer's Journey On Jordan's Borders

7:36am March 24, 2019

by Amr Alfiky

Curious about the changing landscape on her country's borders, Jordanian photographer Nadia Bseiso journeyed to the border of Jordan with Israel asking, "Is the crescent still fertile?"

Syria Photographer Covers The Fall Of ISIS

5:43pm March 23, 2019

Felipe Dana is a photojournalist who has been covering the fall of ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

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A 1980s photo of Carlton and Juanita Collins hangs inside the barbershop in the same spot it was taken.

Arts

'Strands Of Love' Connects Generations Of An African-American Family

2:29pm March 15, 2019

by Amanda Morris

For one year, New York-based photographer Shuran Huang followed the Collins family to church, baseball fields and their family-run barbershop.

Arts

Transforming The Pain Of Black Lives Lost Into Portraits Of Magic Embodied

2:19pm March 03, 2019

Frustrated by media depictions of the suffering of black people, photographer Mikael Owunna uses fluorescent paint and UV light to portray his subjects adorned in stars, as "infinite as the universe."