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January 5, 2023
If You Licked These Photos They Would Taste Like New York. (So Don’t Lick Them.)
A look at a century of New York photographs by The Times’s staff photographers.
May 30, 2019
At 90, Photographer Fred Baldwin Still Has ‘So Much Work Left to Do’
Having documented Sami herders and the civil rights movement, and having just published a memoir, the photographer says his life’s work is far from complete.
May 29, 2019
‘Shaft’? We’re Talking About Gordon Parks … and We Can Dig It
A look at how the photographer translated his humanistic view of urban crime to the silver screen.
May 24, 2019
Documenting Climate Change by Air, Land and Sea
The New York Times photographer Josh Haner has spent the past four years capturing the effects of climate change around the world and under water.
May 14, 2019
The Racial Bias Built Into Photography
Sarah Lewis explores the relationship between racism and the camera.
April 25, 2019
Is This the Best Photo of the Year?
John Moore’s photo of a 2-year-old asylum seeker and her mother being detained was named photo of the year in the World Press Photo contest.
April 11, 2019
Updating Norman Rockwell’s ‘Four Freedoms’ for a Modern, Diverse America
Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur recreated Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” series, featuring scenes that reflect this country’s complexity and diversity over 75 years later.
March 12, 2019
Our White House Photographer on Covering President Trump
Having covered the White House for over three decades, Doug Mills discusses the challenges of his job.
March 8, 2019
This Photo of a 7-Year-Old Girl Transformed the Abolition Movement
Abolitionists used a daguerreotype of Mary Mildred Williams, a light-skinned black girl born into slavery, to win over potentially sympathetic white Americans during the 19th century.
March 7, 2019
Shahidul Alam’s Photo Festival in Bangladesh Is ‘an Act of Defiance’
Despite Mr. Alam’s arrest for speaking out against his country’s government, Chobi Mela continues to showcase photography beyond the Western viewpoint.
March 1, 2019
Capturing the Soul: Photographic Portraiture Before the Smartphone Era
From F.B.I. posters to commissioned family photos, portraits have long revealed how people wanted to be presented, and sometimes how they didn’t.
February 21, 2019
Bearing Witness to Jim Crow in Mississippi With Uncompromising Candor
Florence Mars captured a fading but no less virulent racial order in Mississippi, when forces beyond its control were gradually dismantling the state’s system of legalized segregation.
February 19, 2019
Women of Color Organize for Access and Accountability in Photojournalism
The Authority Collective, whose members are women, transgender or nonbinary photographers, is building a supportive community while challenging industry leaders’ thinking about diversity and representation.
February 5, 2019
From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter: Honoring Black Mothers Who Lost Their Sons
The making of Sheila Pree Bright’s photo-mural of black women who had lost their sons gave a group of mothers a chance to tell their stories.
January 29, 2019
African Migrants Treated as Royalty in Three Kings Celebration in Spain
After being rescued from a dinghy off the Libyan coast, a group of African migrants was unexpectedly welcomed by the Spanish city of Reus and brought in as part of the town’s annual parade.
January 25, 2019
Helen Levitt’s Street Photos Blend the Poetic With the Political
Examining the overlooked work of a photographer whose images brought awareness to social issues.
January 16, 2019
Intimate Photos of Community and Resilience in New York’s Chinatown in the 1980s
As waves of immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China arrived in Lower Manhattan, Bud Glick documented Chinatown and provided much needed detail and context for a community often reduced to clichés.
January 2, 2019
A Mother and Daughter’s Unlikely Journey as Migrant Workers
Xyza Bacani and her mother were migrant domestic workers who left their home in the Philippines for Hong Kong. She photographed her mother’s path and the effect it had on their family.
December 27, 2018
Dawoud Bey: 40 Years of Photos Affirming the ‘Lives of Ordinary Black People’
A new retrospective book “Seeing Deeply” reveals his decades-long exploration of community, memory and photography.
December 24, 2018
Passion, Romance and Yearning: Photos of People Kissing
From simple pecks to full-on makeout sessions, a new compilation of photographs reveals how couples have kissed in front of the camera since the late-Victorian era.
December 14, 2018
A Spanish Photographer’s 42-Year-Long Mission to Save His Village’s Memories
Old ways of life are disappearing from Cespedosa de Tormes in western Spain, but Juan Manuel Castro Prieto wants to preserve the threads that join him to his ancestral village.
December 12, 2018
An Intimate Look at Leonard Bernstein
A collection of photographs of Mr. Bernstein, made by some of the most famous photographers of the 20th century, capture the American classical music maestro on and off the stage.
December 11, 2018
Living Large in the Limo, if Only for a Night
During her short-lived career as a limousine driver in the 1980s, Kathy Shorr captured her passengers’ celebrations in New York.
December 6, 2018
In Ethiopia, Visual Storytelling From a Deeper Perspective
Addis Foto Fest, founded by photographer Aida Muluneh, aims to give photographers from Africa a platform to capture the cultural complexities and diverse histories of the countries they call home.
December 6, 2018
Zanele Muholi: Paying Homage to the History of Black Women
Through self-portraits, Zanele Muholi reimagines black identity and challenges the oppressive standards of beauty that often ignore people of color.
December 3, 2018
The Photos That Lifted Up the Black Is Beautiful Movement
For over 50 years, the photographer Kwame Brathwaite captured African-American beauty and fashion, giving visual power to black power.
November 27, 2018
Examining Arnold Newman's Environmental Portraits
When taking portraits, Arnold Newman was less interested in the details of his subject’s surroundings than with the symbols he could create with them.
November 26, 2018
Illuminating Black Joy, Black Love and Resistance in Harlem
Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes celebrated the art of living through difficult times in “The Sweet Flypaper of Life.”
November 23, 2018
Capturing the Complexities of the Modern South, in Photographs
A new exhibition challenges the perceived identity of the American South, at a time when the definition of regionalism itself is in flux.
November 21, 2018
The Holocaust’s Paradox of Good and Evil, in Photographs
In her dark and evocative images, Judy Glickman Lauder explores the contrast between the reality of hate, the possibility of defeating it and photography’s role in spurring change.
November 19, 2018
How Photography Has Shaped Perceptions of African Women
“Aunty!,” an exhibit curated by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and Catherine E. McKinley, reveals photography’s role as a tool or weapon when investigating identity and empowerment.
November 14, 2018
Random Moments, Petty Lies and Quiet Pleasures
In “Taradiddle,” Charles Traub’s photographs reveal how life plays tricks on us all.
November 8, 2018
Living Beneath the Ground in an Australian Desert
For about a century, residents of Coober Pedy have escaped the searing heat by building their homes underground. Tamara Merino captured life beneath the earth.
October 24, 2018
Lynsey Addario: An Unexpected Retrospective
20 years of photographs of conflict and women’s issue are collected in her new book “Of Love and War”
October 23, 2018
Documenting the Rise of White Nationalism
Mark Peterson was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Grant for his work chronicling the rise of white nationalism in the United States.
October 17, 2018
Capturing the Struggle for Racial Equality, Past and Present
Sheila Pree Bright chronicles the longstanding and continuing legacy of black activism in her new book, “#1960Now.”
October 15, 2018
Meet the Young Female Photographers Who Documented 18-Year-Old Girls
The New York Times asked 22 young women to take photos for a project exploring daily life for girls around the world who are becoming adults this year.
October 11, 2018
A Marriage of Two Trees: an Unusual Wedding in a Small Italian Town
Gianluca De Bartolo traveled to a mountain village in southern Italy to document how the town celebrates its patron saint with an arboreal wedding.
October 9, 2018
The Photo Book as Art Object
For Dayanita Singh, photography is inseparable from its presentation, and she has spent years experimenting with unusual photo book formats to display her work.
October 8, 2018
40 Years of Hip-Hop Photos
Decades after photographers captured the hip-hop scene that emerged in the South Bronx, contact sheets offer a valuable peek into how artists on both sides of the camera worked.
October 5, 2018
How Gordon Parks Became Gordon Parks
A new book examines Gordon Parks’s transformation over the formative decade before his time as the first black staff photographer at Life magazine.
October 1, 2018
The Veteranas of Chicana Youth Culture in Los Angeles
Guadalupe Rosales started an Instagram account cataloging the Latina youth scene in Southern California in the ’80s and ’90s.
September 27, 2018
Remote Russians Recycle Rocket Wreckage
Space junk from rockets launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia ends up in the remote Mezensky District, where residents repurpose it for hunting sleds, tools and boats.
September 26, 2018
58 Jazz Giants in One Immortal Image
In 1958, these jazz soloists heeded a highly un-jazzlike 10 a.m. call to a stoop in Harlem for a photograph celebrating the music’s collective moment.
September 25, 2018
They Body-Shamed Her Online. Then This Photographer Struck Back.
Haley Morris-Cafiero saved more than 1,000 negative comments directed toward her and, choosing 30 from various backgrounds, photographed herself costumed like her cyberbullies.
September 20, 2018
12 Emerging Photographers You Should Know
Projects from these up-and-coming photographers are being displayed on four-foot wooden cubes at this year’s Photoville beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.
September 14, 2018
Photographing the White South in the Turbulence of the 1960s
Doy Gorton, a son of the Mississippi Delta who joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, returned to Mississippi to embark on a project photographing his fellow white Southerners.
September 13, 2018
Highlighting Freedom, Resilience and Diversity at Photoville in Brooklyn
Photoville, the free photo festival that takes place under the Brooklyn Bridge, is now in its seventh year. In some 90 exhibits and outdoor installations featuring 600 artists, the festival is focusing on themes of gender, social and ethnic diversity, resilience, freedom of speech, and immigration.
September 12, 2018
Gordon Parks on Poverty, the ‘Most Savage of Human Afflictions’
Mr. Parks realized the power of empathy to help people understand poverty. In this 1961 photo essay, he took readers inside the lives of a Brazilian boy, Flavio da Silva, and his family, who lived in a favela in the hills outside Rio de Janeiro.
September 10, 2018
Chronicling the Virtuosity and Struggles of 1970s Soul and Funk Musicians
Bruce W. Talamon photographed some of music’s brightest stars for a decade. He considers himself “a visual caretaker of black folks’ history.”
September 6, 2018
Funerals, Skirmishes and Protests: Photographing Ireland in the Time of Bobby Sands
The French photojournalist Yan Morvan covered Northern Ireland in 1981 when Bobby Sands, a member of the I.R.A., died of a hunger strike. Mr. Morvan’s images are on exhibit at the Visa Pour l’Image festival in Perpignan, France, this week.
September 5, 2018
Photographing an Indelicate but Deadly Subject
Andrea Bruce captured the hardships and hazards of living with open defecation, which affects nearly one billion people.
September 4, 2018
Photographs That Humanize the Immigration Debate
John Moore, a staff photographer for Getty Images, has perhaps the most comprehensive body of work of any news photographer covering immigration. His images are being highlighted at a festival in France.
September 3, 2018
The Quiet Heroism of Arthur Ashe
John G. Zimmerman's photos of Arthur Ashe, the first black man to win a singles title at the United States Open, represented the athlete as he lived: a complex and self-possessed man in the midst of a life-altering event.
August 27, 2018
Striving for Justice and Equality With a Camera on New York's Streets
For decades, Builder Levy photographed protests and social issues, as well as the neighborhoods where he taught in New York, to counter media depictions he saw as problematic.
August 24, 2018
Photographing a Fast-Moving New York, Slowly
Lugging her cumbersome camera around mid-20th century New York, Evelyn Hofer captured a rapidly changing city, slowly, sensitively and methodically.
August 16, 2018
Shahidul Alam: A Singular Voice in Photography for Dignity and Human Rights
Over three decades, the photographer has covered major events, natural disasters and the struggle against governmental abuses. Now he is in jail in Bangladesh.
August 16, 2018
How to Have Bullfights in California? Use Velcro.
Every year in the Central Valley, Portuguese-Americans bring bullfighters from overseas and put on huge festivals — but shed no blood.
August 15, 2018
Revealing the Lives of Black Fathers
Robyn Price Pierre looked to her family, classmates and friends to create personal photos exploring black fatherhood.
August 6, 2018
Celebrating Girlhood and Feminine Identity
Melissa Ann Pinney’s project exploring female identity spans three decades and presents women and girls as subjects in their own right, not as accessories in the lives of men.
August 1, 2018
Recovering Lost Photos of Life Before the Chernobyl Disaster
Maxim Dondyuk is preserving evidence of people’s lives in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, before the nuclear explosion turned their communities into ghost towns.
July 31, 2018
Beauty and Bleakness: The Efforts to Conserve Coral Reefs
As coral ecosystems face worldwide decline, Alexis Rosenfeld and Alexie Valois were set on chronicling their majesty and their plight — as well as efforts to restore them.
July 20, 2018
Overlooked Stories From Latin American Photographers
For its Latin American Foto Festival, the Bronx Documentary Center is again sharing photography with the community it calls home.
July 9, 2018
Escaping to Freedom, in the Shadows of the Night
A new series by the photographer Dawoud Bey summons a time in African-American history when the journey to freedom was made largely under cover of night.
July 5, 2018
Susan Meiselas: Breaching Boundaries in Photography
Ms. Meiselas, a Magnum photographer since 1976, is the subject of a new book, “Susan Meiselas: Mediations,” which examines her long career and diverse body of work.
July 3, 2018
Meet the Personalities Behind These German Office Plants
To Frederik Busch, a German photographer, these plants have no less personality than their human counterparts.
July 2, 2018
The Beat Generation in Its Natural Habitat
Burt Glinn shot the Beats in New York’s jazz clubs, coffee shops and Village bars.
June 26, 2018
The Transformative Nature of the Photographs of Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus’s portfolio “A Box of Ten Photographs” was pivotal in the acceptance of photography by the art world. A book published by Aperture and the Smithsonian American Art Museum examines the portfolio and its impact.
June 21, 2018
These 1970s Pageants Celebrated Black Women's Beauty
For some women in West London’s Afro-Caribbean communities, beauty pageants nurtured racial pride and self-expression.
June 14, 2018
Revisiting the Images of Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Work Magazine
Two photographers have spent years compiling a complete set of Camera Work, Alfred Stieglitz’s groundbreaking publication that helped shepherd photography into the art world.
June 12, 2018
Capturing the Strength of Women Who Survived Acid Attacks in Colombia
In these acid attack survivors, Betty Zapata sees inspirational figures who are fighting back for their place in society.
May 24, 2018
Photographing a ‘Punk’ Priest in Rural Russia
When Ekaterina Solovieva traveled to a remote lake town in northern Russia, she encountered an Orthodox priest with a decidedly unorthodox manner.
May 22, 2018
Recovering Hidden History Along the Armenian-Turkish Border
Two female photographers — one Armenian, one Turkish — worked together to document life on both sides of the border, focusing on Armenians living in hiding.
May 18, 2018
50 Years After Their Mug Shots, Portraits of Mississippi’s Freedom Riders
The journalist and photographer Eric Etheridge provides visual and oral histories of the courageous men and women known as the Freedom Riders in the 1960s.
May 15, 2018
Puerto Rico’s Long Journey Out of Darkness
Todd Heisler, a New York Times staff photographer, discusses how people are surviving as the island waits for its electrical grid to be rebuilt.
May 6, 2018
In These Harlem Jazz Clubs, Musicians and Audience Became One
“You went for the scene,” said Gerald Cyrus, who spent the 1990s photographing Harlem’s jazz clubs and jam sessions. Then they went away.
May 3, 2018
Native American Photographers Unite to Challenge Inaccurate Narratives
The Natives Photograph organization has highlighted 21 photographers, and offers a database of indigenous photographers in North America.
May 1, 2018
Sim Chi Yin, a Patient Photographer, Wins Chris Hondros Award
The freelance photographer based in Beijing is honored for her keen sense of the geographic locations, cultures and subjects she covers.
April 25, 2018
A 23-Year-Old Ugandan Photographer Documents Youth in Her Country
Esther Mbabazi followed three teenagers as they navigated life in Uganda.
April 19, 2018
The Power of Pictures: Viewing History Through America's Library
An exhibit featuring more than 440 images from the Library of Congress’ photographic archives is featured at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles.
April 13, 2018
World Press Photo of the Year: A Tale Told Twice
The award winners were announced today at the World Press Photo Festival in Amsterdam.
April 12, 2018
Portraits of Mestiza in Mexico, as They Wish to Be Seen
Citlali Fabián’s collaborative portraits of Oaxacan women and girls are both intimate and universal.
April 12, 2018
Brassai: The ‘Eye of Paris’
While in Paris, photography became Brassai's main language as he wandered through bars, ballrooms and occasionally brothels, sometimes giving direction to his subjects.
April 11, 2018
The ‘Endless War’ of Land Mines in the Balkans
Large areas of Kosovo, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina remain plagued by mines and other live bombs two decades after the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
April 4, 2018
Dr. King’s Complex Relationship With the Camera
The most compelling photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were neither idealized nor simplistic, but endeavored to portray his complexity and humanity.
March 30, 2018
‘It Was Like My Disability Became a Gift’
After Nolan Ryan Trowe and Adhiambo Mitchell bonded over their shared disabilities, Mr. Trowe set out to photograph the busy life of his friend.
March 28, 2018
Documenting the Dynamic Black Community of 1940s Seattle
In the 1940s, Al Smith documented a heroic period for Seattle jazz in the integrated establishments of Jackson Street, where African-American performers and customers were embraced.
March 27, 2018
The Superfund Sites of Silicon Valley
When Federica Armstrong discovered that she lived a mile from one of Silicon Valley’s multiple toxic Superfund sites, she set out to photograph them.
March 26, 2018
The Earliest Days of American Photography
A new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles looks at the complex — and sometimes even illicit — history of photography in the United States.
March 7, 2018
Finding Tenderness in Communities Affected by Manila’s Anti-Drug Killings
Hannah Reyes Morales photographed scenes of death in Manila during the anti-drug campaign. She later returned to those sites to capture the daily lives of residents living in the midst of violence.
March 6, 2018
These Are the Pictures of the Year From 2017
Adam Ferguson was named Photographer of the Year for the 75th Pictures of the Year International competition, for work on assignment for The Times
March 2, 2018
Indians Celebrating India at Houston FotoFest
This year’s FotoFest International, the first and longest-running worldwide photography biennial, focuses on work by artists of Indian origin.
February 27, 2018
Coming of Age Amid Patriotic Training
Sarah Blesener documented 10 programs that teach patriotic values and military skills to American children and teenagers.
February 22, 2018
Incredibly Close (and Extremely Loud)
In David Rothenberg’s photos, the jetliners landing at La Guardia Airport are silent, imposing behemoths. For the Queens neighborhoods under the flight path, they are anything but silent.
February 15, 2018
A Times Photographer’s Journey Home to the Winter Olympics
Chang Lee, a staff photographer for The New York Times, recounts how he covers the drama, the spectacle and a unified Korean team at the Winter Olympics.
February 15, 2018
Which of These Images Should Be the World Press Photo of the Year?
World Press Photo has announced the six finalists for photo of the year.
February 14, 2018
An Iranian Photographer’s Unflinching Look at His Country’s Revolution
Kaveh Kazemi's images of the Iranian revolution and its aftermath reveal the country's transition from a different era, and a contrast with its social upheaval today.
February 12, 2018
An Elegy to India’s Vanishing Cinemas
Nandita Raman spent three years photographing the decline of India’s single-screen movie houses for her series “Cinema Play House.”
February 7, 2018