Photography

Photography

almost seen is an invitation

I have sat with patients who tell me, " I hate these medications," and then, in the same breath, admit, " I am terrified of what happens if I stop them." Others describe a crushing sense of hopelessness, yet they still show up faithfully, week after week. These apparent contradictions are not signs of confusion or weakness. They are, in fact, the essence of being human.

Loosely rooted in the documentary tradition, Joiner's pictures have a formalist conviction, democratic vernacular, and a magical realist attitude. Her work is informed by growing up in the Deep South. "Housekeeping" traces the strange and nonlinear landscape of loss. Moving between still lifes, interiors, and portraits (both real and imagined), the images reflect the distortions of grief and the fragile persistence of memory.

Sections of the book are separated with bold, majestic colours: royal blues, patriotic reds, nostalgic purples - and the centrefolds feature these colours climbing out onto the pages before diffusing like dissipating memories themselves. The first half of the book follows a sunset gradient before fading into black, echoing the daily rhythm of "public square dancers and the cultural metaphor of seniors as 'a generation of sunset'".

In the Meiji era, when the area was developed from grassland, the model was the streets of London, Okada says. You can still find high-rise buildings that preserve traces of that history.

A picture of a frog hidden in a pile of leaves has left the internet stumped. The picture, taken by a Reddit user during a zoology trip, shows the amphibian disguised by its surroundings. Tucked away and difficult to spot, the frog blends in with the green, orange and red leaves in the background. And the frog's camouflage is baffling people on the internet.

"It's a deeply knowledgeable community similar to "people who drink wine and know where the wine comes from just by tasting it," Peter says. "You hear a plane, and you're able to tell which engines they are-and by the engines, you know, oh, it's this model of plane. And if it's this model of plane, then you know it's arriving at this time, and it's this airline."

I've curated small-ship cruise itineraries for nearly 25 years. I've taken trips to some of the most remote places on the planet, including Papua New Guinea, Greenland, and Antarctica. As a leading travel advisor in the field, I always feel deeply fulfilled when I can help a traveler who thinks they "hate cruising" find the perfect small-ship trip for them.

Photographer Philip Butler turns his lens on a vanishing piece of Britain's built landscape in his book 226 Garages and Service Stations. The publication catalogues the nation's petrol age in 252 pages, capturing an architectural lineage that spans Mock-Tudor fantasies, streamlined moderne curves, and humble repair shops tucked into railway arches or converted chapels. Published in the spirit of Ed Ruscha's Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), Butler's survey reveals how the evolution of motoring shaped the architectural vernacular of the 20th century.

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Low birth rates, aging residents, and evolving or shuttering industries pair with a trend of younger people migrating to metro areas for jobs and more diverse cultural amenities. As of 2022, the U.S. Census bureau estimates there are more than 15 million abandoned houses around the country, which have been left for myriad reasons ranging from foreclosures to structural issues to the death of inhabitants with no one else able or willing to shoulder the responsibility of a home and its furnishings.

First and foremost, I'm a showgoer. I love going to shows. I love dancing at shows. I love being at the front, right up by the band.

Hubert Crabières and Alexis Etienne, the co-founders of the journal l'idiot utile, pursue several objectives. One of them is to build a "structure of resistance" -to open up a creative space with as few constraints as possible and free from external censorship. They also pursue sincerity in costumes, clothing and disguise whilst detaching these practices from the fashion world. Clothes are, as Hubert puts it: "often unwearable and exist only within the photographic moment".

Artist Marc Craig created this blue whale in the graffiti tunnels under Waterloo station. The figure is my partner Ian, who is standing underneath the eye the scale is awesome.' Photograph: Patricia Pearl I discovered hundreds of these feather-horned beetles (Rhipicera femorata) flying around in a mating frenzy while on a walk at Cape Conran. To get this photo, I had go out early in the morning while they were resting before the day warmed up.' Photograph: Geoff Boyes

"The \"Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year Awards 2025\" celebrates its tenth anniversary with a stunning shortlist of global weather photography, ranging from dramatic storms to delicate cloud formations. Organized by the UK's Royal Meteorological Society, the competition not only honors visual artistry but also raises awareness about climate change and environmental issues. This year's entries reflect a growing trend of smartphone photography, proving that powerful storytelling can come from anyone, anywhere."

In his Sailing Castle series, artist Cheng Tsung FENG envisions the urban landscape as an archipelago of ships at sea, where clusters of buildings resemble vessels gathered in harbor.

Since its launch in 1993, the Got Milk? campaign has become one of the most recognizable advertising initiatives in American history. Originally created by the advertising agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners, the campaign was designed to promote milk consumption in a way that was memorable, playful, and culturally resonant. The signature milk mustache portraits, shot by photographers including Annie Leibovitz, paired celebrities, athletes, and everyday people with a humorous, relatable visual motif: a glass of milk and a creamy white mustache.

Scientific Precision Meets Absurd Creativity in a Delightfully Strange Universe of Tim Andraka Meet He Jiaying, A Celebrated Chinese Artist and Educator Specializing in Gongbi Painting Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Receives an Official Logo Adorable Photo Project Shows What Different People Are Waiting For Miss Tuning Calendar 2016 The Superb Digital Art & Photography Of Daimen Pape Artist Captures Shadows of the Forgotten American Landscapes in Stunning Realistic Paintings

That's how I got into film. At some point over the last decade, reviewing phones morphed more or less into reviewing cameras with touchscreens on the back. For a writer with no photography experience, that started to become a problem, and I realized that I needed to learn enough about cameras to hold my own. I was having to take my own product photos, too, so I needed to get better at the practical side of photography, not just the theory.

The Greeks exhibition is mainly a cluster of display boards and some videos, so while it's informative about how plays were staged, as an exhibition, I had been hoping for something a bit more visual. There is one scale model of a stage set, but otherwise, it's short snapshots of plays past. I suspect if you're really into ancient Greek plays, the insights will be interesting, but otherwise, it was something I didn't spend that much time with. It also needed better lighting to read the text.

A young woman, captured in black and white, dressed in corporate attire with slick bobbed hair, is standing on Vauxhall Bridge at night. She's lifting up the front of her skirt and she's urinating against the pillar - not squatting, but standing and pissing like a man, gazing with rapt intent at the arc of urine soaking the pavement at her sober Mary Jane heels.

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The 2025 Audubon Bird Photography Awards expanded internationally to include Chile and Colombia, spotlighting the rich biodiversity and shared responsibility of bird conservation across the Americas.

The work, Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat (Dora Maar), was finished towards the end of the couple's turbulent nine-year relationship and shows Maar in a softer, more colourful light than Picasso's previous portraits of his then lover. Picasso made many paintings of Maar, including the famous, Portrait of Dora Maar and Dora Maar au Chat, but she said of them: All of his portraits of me are lies. They're all Picassos. Not one is Dora Maar.

There are more than 1,000 of them this campus. About 1,200 actually, although it's impossible for staff to count them all because cats. About 30 years ago, the American University of Beirut (AUB) started taking in cats abandoned during years of war in Lebanon. During last year's war with Israel, it gained a few hundred that were dumped at its gate. AUB has a huge sprawling campus full of towering trees and green spaces leading

For the 2026 installation, the artwork will be installed on the glass façade of the Olympic Village Canada Line Station that faces W 2nd Ave at Cambie St. Up to five works will be printed on 60/40 opacity vinyl and will be installed within the surface area of the five glass columns. A didactic panel with information on the work will be placed alongside the installation.

This unique ensemble, which pairs an all-silver-chrome Leica M-A with a matching Noctilux-M 50 mm f/1.2 lens, represents not just a milestone in Leica's production history but also a rare intersection of photographic innovation and religious heritage. Gifted by Leica AG to His Holiness in 2024, the set will serve as the highlight of this season's sale - a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for collectors to own a camera with both historical and spiritual significance.

In the hundred-year history of The New Yorker, photography has appeared on the cover exactly twice. For the magazine's seventy-fifth anniversary, in 2000, the dog-loving portraitist William Wegman dressed up one of his Weimaraners as Eustace Tilley, our dandyish mascot, originally drawn by Rea Irvin. (The butterfly that canine Eustace studies through his monocle also has a dog's head.) But no human had broken the barrier until last month, when Cindy Sherman's image of herself as Eustace covered a special issue on the culture industry.

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"So I went in, and nobody was there. And it was transformational," Isaak said. "You walk into that space, and you know you are someplace else. And if you're lucky, you can relinquish all the baggage that you're carrying and just be in that place."

The issue comes down to the United States Department of State's for passport photos to have a white or off-white background. "Because the background must be white or off-white, wearing a white shirt can make you appear to blend into the background and make it hard to see your outline," says David Alwadish, founder and CEO of ItsEasy.com Passport & Visa Services. Alwadish explains that non-compliant photos are the top reason passport applications are suspended or put on hold by the Department of State.

I was travelling home with it when I noticed, behind the hills beyond Silsden, a perfectly formed arch of cloud - like a cloudy rainbow, I pulled in, intending to take photos. By the time I'd sorted the camera out the arch had broken up as per the photo, but I took a few shots anyway. That evening, I was playing with the camera and deleting shots I'd taken when I came across this one showing something on the far left.