photography

This is likely a pit toilet. The idea is that there's a giant hole underneath the toilet. It's from Revben and Havenes Banda's home in a rural village in Malawi. They live with their five children and five grandchildren; their monthly income is $50.

PHOTOS: Peep At The Toilets Of 7 Families Around The World

7:00am November 19, 2017

by Greta Jochem

On World Toilet Day — November 19 — the goal is to raise awareness about the importance of toilets in reducing diarrheal disease. These pictures show that toilets can come in all shapes and sizes.

Politics & Government

"Obama: An Intimate Portrait" By Photographer Pete Souza

4:30pm November 16, 2017

From the fun to the solemn to the iconic, Souza's photographs defined an administration.

New Exhibit Shows Off Special Effects Pioneer Ray Harryhausen's Lasting Works

6:12pm November 12, 2017

by Nomin Ujiyediin

A new exhibition in Oklahoma City presents the work of pioneering stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen. In an age of CGI and 3-D animation, his work still influences and delights.

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Bo, the first dog, boards Air Force One for a weekend trip to Chicago on May 27, 2010.

Photographer Pete Souza Reflects On 8 Years (And 1.9 Million Photos) Of Obama

4:11pm November 07, 2017

by Terry Gross

As the chief official White House photographer for President Obama, Souza sometimes shot more than 2,000 photos a day. "I was there all the time," he says. His new book is Obama: An Intimate Portrait.

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Man diving, Ganges floods, Benares, Uttar Pradesh, 1985.

PHOTOS: An Amazing Eye For The Colors Of India

7:20am November 05, 2017

by Maanvi Singh

Black and white pictures were popular when Raghubir Singh started out as a photographer. But he insisted on color. A new retrospective shows his ground-breaking work.

Nirma, 16, plays with her friends. She is married but still lives with her parents and talks to her husband on the phone sometimes. She is nervous about the duties she'll have to take on when she does move in with her husband. At the moment, she hopes to

Prize-Winning Photos Show A Different Side Of Instagram

11:30am October 29, 2017

by Maanvi Singh

Getty has given grants to photographers who focused on child brides in India, family members who have been out of touch and youth who have been incarcerated.

The revered photographer William Eggleston, at age 78, has released his first album.

William Eggleston's Secret World Of 'Musik'

9:46am October 20, 2017

by Tom Huizenga

Watch a short film about the revered artist who liberated color photography in the 1970s. Now, at age 78, his lifelong passion for music is revealed in his very first album release.

The Sardar Sweet Shop in Varanasi, India, was built around a neem tree considered too holy to cut down. Customers flow in and out, barely noticing the imposing tree. In rural parts, people use the neem tree's leaves to repel insects, the sap for stomach

PHOTOS: Trees That Tell Stories About The World We Live In

9:16am October 15, 2017

by Sasha Ingber

In Wise Trees, a book by photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, you'll see a holy tree in the middle of an Indian candy shop, a communal tree in Mozambique, a tree of tragedy in Cambodia.

Morzina, a 40-year-old Rohingya refugee from Tangbazar, Myanmar, winces in pain at the Sadar Hospital in the Bangladeshi town of Cox's Bazar. Soldiers from Myanmar's army smashed her in the ribs with a rifle butt as they raided her home in early September

PHOTOS: Intimate Pictures Capture The Pain Of The Rohingya

7:00am October 08, 2017

by Sasha Ingber

Photographer Tommy Trenchard shares stories from Rohingya refugees who have run for their lives.

PHOTOS: A 4-Year Mission To Present A New Vision Of Beauty

4:52am September 24, 2017

by Meghan Sullivan

Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc spent four years making portraits of women around the world. "In the end, I think beauty just means just being yourself," she says.