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These photographs were produced by Paula Sprenger and Carter McCormick during their month-long artist residency at Dry Tortugas National Park in Florida.

Making Art Off The Grid: A Month-Long Residency At A Remote National Park

5:12pm October 26, 2016

by Melissa Block

Filmmakers Carter McCormick and Paula Sprenger recently wrapped up a month as artists-in-residence at Dry Tortugas National Park, 70 miles west of Key West. No phone, TV, Internet or other people.

A nosy bald eagle peeks out from behind the rocks to check out what photographer William Saunders is up to, Cordova, Ala.

PHOTOS: Finalists For The 2016 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

3:12pm October 21, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

A bear being fish-slapped. A decidedly not-regal eagle. An unfortunate buffalo/bird interaction.

Eunice, pictured above, is one of the workshop participants: "Today I learned a girl can do anything — that a boy and girl are equal, no one is more special, and I am happy about it. I am happy that the new things I learned today [are] to be confident a

Health & Safety

A Photographer Gives Cameras To Child Brides. Their Images Are Amazing

7:00am October 08, 2016

by Kristin Adair

Stephanie Sinclair has been taking photos of child brides for nearly 15 years. Now, she's teaching girls rescued from early marriage how to photograph each other.

Fati Abubakar takes her camera and goes searching for bitsofborno — people who show how life goes on in the troubled northeast of Nigeria.

Health & Safety

Who's The Woman With The Camera Chasing Smiles And Styles In Nigeria?

5:07pm October 02, 2016

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

She's Fati Abubakar and she takes pictures for her Instagram feed, bitsofborno, showing how life goes on in a region best known for ties to Boko Haram.

Toledano on set, being made up for one of his fates.

Arts

A Photographer Gets Old — Over And Over — In 'The Many Sad Fates'

7:30pm October 01, 2016

by NPR Staff

Photographer Phillip Toledano lost both his parents, an aunt and an uncle and began to wonder — what other dark turns did life have in store? He explores the possibilities in a new short film.

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Women and children gather at a hand pump in Osukputu, Nigeria, which provides clean water for a community of around 800 people.

PHOTOS: Dreamlike Pictures Of The Water The World Needs

1:20pm September 24, 2016

by Victoria Milko

Photographer Mustafa Abdulaziz has spent four years documenting the world's water woes. His "Water Stories" are now on display by New York's East River.

Der ligger en lille Ã¸ midt i den gamle havn i Kangeq.

Selvmord i Grønland: Det er ikke mørket, som dræber dig

3:06pm September 23, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

Grønland har verdens højeste selvmordsrate. Og teenagedrenge er i højeste risikogruppe.

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Gloria, 13, of Oaxaca, Mexico, holds a duck at home. Sexually abused by her father, she became a mother at the age of 12.

Health & Safety

PHOTOS: A Peephole Into The Lives Of Coal Miners, Teen Moms, City Folk

4:12pm September 20, 2016

by Malaka Gharib

A selection of winning photos from Getty Images second annual Instagram Grant highlights stories from Latin America, Ethiopia and India.

How Luck And Intuition Helped To Build Instagram

10:07am September 19, 2016

David Greene talks to Guy Raz — host of the new NPR podcast "How I Built This" — about how the founders of the photo-sharing app Instagram got their business off the ground.

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"The Soiling of Old Glory," was taken on April 5th, 1976, during the Boston busing desegregation protests.

Life After Iconic Photo: Today's Parallels Of American Flag's Role In Racial Protest

4:56pm September 18, 2016

by NPR Staff

A Pulitzer Prize-winning photo taken during the busing desegregation protests captured a nation. The photographer and subject of "The Soiling of Old Glory," talk about it's significance 40 years on.

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