photography

Music & Culture

Jazz Musician And Subject Of Iconic Photo Revisits 'A Great Day In Harlem'

5:54pm February 17, 2019

Sixty years ago, Esquire magazine published a now-iconic photo of jazz luminaries, titled "A Great Day In Harlem." NPR talks with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, one of only two surviving artists in the photo.

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A fan-throated lizard displays his dewlap sac in front of Asia's largest wind farm in the Western Ghats mountains of India. The construction of the windmills altered the habitat of the lizards dramatically.

Sky Islands And Starry-Eyed Frogs: Breathtaking Photos Of Remote Ecosystems

4:43pm February 16, 2019

by Jason Beaubien

Prasenjeet Yadav wants his photos to make people care about the environment — whether it's grasslands vanishing in southwest India or windmills taking over a lizard's habitat.

Arts

All Good Dogs: Photographer Transforms Canines' Cones From Shame To Glam

10:41am February 10, 2019

by Emily Bogle

Photographer Winnie Au worked with a prop stylist to create sculptural cones for dogs for the series Cone of Shame. The images show a range of emotions dogs have while wearing cones.

Clockwise from top left: Logan Richardson, Khalid, Josée Caron and Lucy Niles of Partner, Naia Izumi (winner of 2018's Tiny Desk Contest).

Music & Culture

Instant Photos Capture Tiny Desk Artists Offstage, 'Flaws, Dust Specks and All'

4:56pm January 29, 2019

by Eslah Attar

See intimate moments with Thundercat, Jorja Smith, the late Mac Miller and other musicians from NPR's Tiny Desk concert series, captured just moments after they performed.

Karen Paz hugs her daughter, Liliana Saray, 9. They are from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. "I feel free; I feel different," Paz said. "I don't have someone who imposes his views and his ways on me. I am not scared someone will come and attack me, like I used

World News

'I'm A Survivor Of Violence': Portraits Of Women Waiting In Mexico For U.S. Asylum

5:51pm January 16, 2019

by Federica Valabrega

Photographer Federica Valabrega photographed Central American women who fled domestic violence and joined a migrant caravan to seek asylum in the U.S.

To Capture French Region Of Provence, She Photographed The Wind

6:24pm December 27, 2018

A new photography book captures the unseeable — the storied Mistral wind in Provence. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the photographer, Rachel Cobb.

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A photograph by Hugh Mangum from Photos Day or Night: The Archive of HughMangum, by Sarah Stacke with texts by Maurice Wallace and Martha Sumler, Hugh Mangum's granddaughter. Image courtesy of Hugh Mangum Photographs, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manus

Arts

Photos Day Or Night: How One Photographer Documented The Segregated South

7:01am December 23, 2018

by Sarah Stacke

Evident in the new book, "Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum," is a playfulness that was unlike the work of any other photographer from the turn of the 20th century.

British Family Seeks Photographer To Document Their Vacation

6:40am December 20, 2018

The family posted the job on a website for photographers. The assignment is to shoot the family's travels to Monaco, Rio and other stops. The pay is $100,000. Five years of experience is required.

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In the story "The Mole and the Sun," Mole's mother is sick. A medical seer tells him she will recover if his friend Ya Sun can orbit the earth in the opposite direction that it's rotating. The sobering moral is that you can't go against the rules of natur

Magical Photos Bring Fables From Mbomo To Life

9:53am December 17, 2018

by Rachel D. Cohen

The fables were gathered from people in the Congo Basin and illustrated with a touch of magical realism in the new book Congo Tales: Told By The People Of Mbomo.

Obama Photographer Uses 'Shade' To Contrast Presidents, Political Landscapes

11:00am December 13, 2018

by Cameron Pollack

On Instagram and in his latest book, former White House photographer Pete Souza juxtaposes images of the 44th president as critical counterpoints to headlines and tweets generated by the 45th.