photography

A file picture taken in January 2011 in Paris shows covers of some of the 42 foreign editions of the French fashion magazine "Elle", owned by French media conglomerate Lagardere.

Elle magazine says it will ban fur from its publications worldwide

7:32pm December 02, 2021

by Jonathan Franklin

So far, 13 editions globally have implemented the ban, with 20 more set to do so by January 1. The magazine says the decision reflects changing tastes in fashion.

Picture for Women, 1979, transparency in lightbox

Arts

Why the photographer Jeff Wall relies on memory—not his camera—to make his art

11:41am December 02, 2021

by Susan Stamberg

Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Md., is hosting five decades worth of art by Canadian Jeff Wall, a photographer who begins a work "by not photographing."

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Nyayua Thang, 62, left, stands waist-deep in the floodwaters in front of an abandoned primary school in South Sudan. Members of her village, displaced by extreme flooding as a result of heavy rainfall, are using the building as a refuge. Only small mud di

Prize-winning photos capture the grit and suffering of flood survivors in South Sudan

7:00am November 20, 2021

by Diane Cole

The photo series Unyielding Floods recently won its fifth award this year. It captures the strength and hardship of those affected by flooding of biblical proportions in South Sudan.

Arts

Photographer and director Gordon Parks captured the Black experience

1:58pm November 19, 2021

by Terry Gross

Parks, who died in 2006, worked for Life magazine and later became the first Black director of a Hollywood film. He's the subject of the documentary, A Choice of Weapons. Originally broadcast in 1990.

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Creatures Under The Water Award: Time for school in Singapore.

Arts

The winners of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards will brighten your day

6:07pm November 18, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

Among this year's winners are a trio of gossipy raccoons, a joyful bird reunion and an all-powerful prairie dog.

A man holding a child wipes his eye as the Kurdish family from Dohuk in Iraq waits for the border guard patrol, near Narewka, Poland, near the Polish-Belarusian border on Nov. 9. The three-generation family of 16 — with seven minors, including the young

World News

Here's what it's like for migrants trapped between Belarus and Poland

2:00pm November 16, 2021

Thousands of migrants are camped along the border of Belarus and Poland, trapped between the countries. EU officials accuse Belarus of luring them across the border.

Teafua Tanu is an islet of Tokelau used by residents of Fakaofo atoll as a Catholic cemetery. Over the past two decades, the territory of Tokelau has proved extremely vulnerable to climate change and rising sea levels owing, partly, to its being a small l

Their lands are oceans apart but are linked by rising, warming seas of climate change

8:09am November 12, 2021

Photographer Vlad Sokhin's latest work, Warm Waters, is an exploration of climate change traveling across 18 countries and off-the-map territories seen by seldom few.

In 2015, Keyla "Nunny" Reece, felt a lump in her breast, got it checked out and was told it was a benign cyst. A new lump was discovered under her armpit. At the age of 39, on June 7, 2017, doctors diagnosed her with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, and

Arts

This mother wanted her son to have photos to understand her breast cancer journey

9:53am October 31, 2021

Keyla "Nunny" Reece was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer at age 39. Photographer Angelica Edwards documented the hardships and moments of joy in Reece's experience with cancer.

A fisherman sails with his son in an outrigger. They live in a village on the Willaumez Peninsula on New Britain Island, Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea.

Science
Arts

A photographer marries the worlds above and below the water in a single frame

12:22pm October 25, 2021

by Cathy Newman

Photographer David Doubilet first dove below the surface at age 8 and has spent a lifetime making underwater images. He talks to NPR about his new book: Two Worlds: Above and Below the Sea.

A fisherman paddles through mangrove trees at the Tam Giang Lagoon in the Hue province of Vietnam. Mangroves lose all their leaves in winter, exposing their whitish trunks.

Drone Photo Award winners capture a dizzyingly fantastic view of the world

7:09am October 09, 2021

by Suzette Lohmeyer

This year's best pictures include two friends sunbathing on giant shards of ice in Kazakhstan, workers at a red chili factory in Bangladesh and a white mangrove forest in Vietnam.