Photography

Photography

In the 25 years since the first permanent crew docked at the International Space Station, fewer than 300 people have experienced what life is like there, 250 miles above Earth. The rest of us can only imagine it. So, for NASA astronauts like Don Pettit, taking photographs of our planet while aboard the ISS is a way to share the experience with people on the ground.

These images, captured by photographer Barry Webb, provide a close-up view of single-celled slime mould organisms. A view that would not be possible with the naked eye. Using a high-powered macro lens, and a composite of stills, Barry is able to reveal the tiny structures, which can grow anywhere from forests to deserts. Barry has won awards for his work, which is mainly focused west of London, including the recent people's choice award in the macro section of the British photography awards.

"I always loved, and still love obviously, shooting him," Butler told ESPN. "He's always engaged. Some guys are only engaged when they have the ball. But if he's in the corner, if he has the ball, if he's on the bench, he's engaged in the game and you just kind of gravitate toward that. I think he also is one of those superstars that understands the moment."

The year 2025 was defined as much by its major milestones as by the quiet moments in between. This collection features the Sun Sentinel staff's most visual work of the year, from the high-energy celebrations of a Florida Panthers championship to local scenes of everyday life. View the people, places, and community events that made 2025 memorable across Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Jason Hawkes has been capturing the capital from the skies for over 25 years, and his method is not for the faint-hearted. Flying in a helicopter with the doors removed, Mr Hawkes climbs between 500ft and 2,400ft. Both himself and the camera are harnessed to the helicopter so nothing falls out when it turns on its side to get the perfect shot.

The 2025 Refocus International Photographer of the Year Awards reaffirmed the platform's status as a leading showcase for contemporary photography, highlighting work that transcends borders and cultures. This year's winners delivered not just images but deeply human stories, ranging from raw street moments to bold conceptual pieces. Canadian photographer Luke Gram earned the top honor for his series "Humanity Within the Architecture of Control," a subtle yet powerful exploration of everyday life inside North Korea that reveals how individuality persists within rigid systems.

Gerwyn Davies treats the photographic portrait as a stage for disappearance in his ongoing body of work. The Sydney-based artist engineers elaborately costumed selves that gleam under studio lighting, swell into sculptural proportions, and refuse to reveal a face. What appears at first to be hypervisibility, sequins, vinyl, and candy-colored textiles, becomes a visual barricade. The body inside the costume is present, centered, and performing.

The 2025 Minimalist Photography Awards Landscape winners prove that in a noisy world, simplicity can strike the deepest chord. These photographs rely on quiet power rather than spectacle, reducing scenes to pure elements of space, light, and emotion. Martin Rak claimed 1st Place with Art of Winter, a serene Czech landscape capturing the hush of the season's first snowfall, while Kalle Saarikko's 2nd Place Whirl and Alexandre Brisson's 3rd Place infrared Dreamscape of Etosha showed how abstraction and surreal color can reshape our sense of place.

one of 18 wildcats that were released in the Scottish Highlands, UK, in October. This is the third year that wildcats have been released into the Cairngorms national park after being declared functionally extinct in Britain in 2019. Four have died, but five litters of kittens were born this year, and seven the year before. Experts have said there is real hope for the future of wildcats in ScotlandPhotograph: Peter Cairns/Scotland Big Picture/Royal Zoological Society of Scotland/PA

Spanning expansive volumes and standalone series, artists offered compelling glimpses of the world, from Christopher Herwig's vibrant documentation of South Asia's trucks and tuk-tuks to Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze's daring portraits of bamboo scaffolding workers navigating the heights of Hong Kong. The year also brought haunting aerial compositions by Reuben Wu, who combined drones, lasers, and long exposures to mesmerizing effect, alongside a collection of unusual houses around the world, documented in a book published by Hoxton Mini Press.

Among the tombs in Santiago's General Cemetery, the appearance of bouquets of flowers, some of them dry, others fresh and vibrant, indicate the amount of time that has passed since someone visited the deceased. Near the entryway on Recoleta Avenue, the least touristy section that does not feature the imposing mausoleums of yesteryear, 72-year-old Ana Munoz cleans and sometimes decorates her section of tombs. Before she did this work, her mother was in charge of the same patch of earth, and before her, her grandmother.

In the 5th grade, I remember making a drawing of something in art class. What ended up on paper was exactly what I had seen it in my head. Something cognitive manifested into something physical, and I had felt creativity for the first time. As a young teen, I had been listening to bands like The Decendents, Face to Face, and The Gorilla Biscuits.

You ran because you liked running. We watched films because we liked them. We read books because we fancied reading books. These activities stitched meaning into the fabric of daily life. But today, there's a relentless insistence that leisure needs to justify itself in order to be valid. The pressure to find niche hobbies and interests against which to identify ourselves has, Mina Le argues, become an ego problem - one which ultimately feeds an 'individualistic neoliberal culture that makes community organising so much harder.'

As the year draws to a close, photographs offer us a way to look back at the moments that defined the year. This collection brings together images made by NPR photojournalists working in communities across the country, photographers who are documenting moments both consequential and quietly human throughout the year. These images don't just cover the year's biggest headlines, though, they linger on scenes, sometimes not widely known, that stayed with the people behind the cameras.

Color becomes a voice in the 2025 Chromatic Awards, where 21 standout photographs showcase just how powerfully it can speak. This year's selections burst with vivid palettes, nuanced tones, and daring artistic choices that define the competition's reputation as a premier stage for color‑driven photography. More than a contest, the Chromatic Awards exists to elevate storytellers who see the world through a chromatic lens, resulting in winners that feel imaginative, emotional, and deeply personal.

Polish-French artist Nicolas Grospierre presents Heliograms, a photography-adjacent series currently on show in the Salle de Salomon at the Royal Łazienki Palace in Warsaw, on view until December 31, 2026. The project centers on a singular technique: images formed not by camera, lens, or chemical development, but through the direct, months-long exposure of velvet to sunlight. Created both in the countryside of northern Poland and, for this exhibition, directly on site at the historic palace, the works reveal how the sun itself becomes a recording instrument.

The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has unveiled the winners of its 2025 Teen Portrait Competition, showcasing powerful portraits created by young artists who use photography to explore identity, pressure, and modern adolescence.

Just one painting but it is one of the world's very greatest, and most dangerous. The shock of the old hits you in front of a naked Cupid who has clearly been portrayed from life, his raw, laughing features apparently coming straight from the mean streets into the gallery. This young love god is an anarchist, and Caravaggio paints like the antichrist, mocking civilisation, symbolised by the musical instruments at Cupid's feet.

There haven't been many slow news days in 2025, a year which further highlighted how increasingly divided our world - and, indeed, our country - is becoming. But the busy news cycle was also filled with stories that unite us, such as the 96th-minute goal from Troy Parrott that served to give the entire country a badly-needed lift last month.

Tyler Mitchell, the thirty-year-old photography phenom, has enjoyed a rocket-fuelled rise in the fashion and art worlds since graduating from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts less than a decade ago. In 2018, he became the first Black photographer to shoot a cover for Vogue, capturing Beyoncé in a frilly white prairie dress with an elaborate headpiece that simultaneously recalled Giuseppe Arcimboldo's fantastical paintings, Frida Kahlo's elaborate flower crowns, and Carmen Miranda's fruit-basket hats.

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We delve into surrealism to tell the story of a young man grappling with the freedom of his identity and social acceptance. His dreams become a dreamlike atmosphere, offering him an escape from daily oppression. Within this dream world, he encounters a recurring nightmare: the moon creature, a being that embodies everything he wishes to be in real life-free, authentic, and fearless.

When you look back at 2025 from an altitude of 250 miles, you can see the scale of natural events like hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, as well as incredible detail, thanks to high-definition cameras and instruments.

Two boys stand before the camera, their presence quiet yet full of meaning. The photographs, and the vision behind them, were shaped by Shin Jeong Hoon, whose eye for subtle emotions guided every frame. Behind the scenes, Natsumi Allgower brought the look to life, shaping hair and makeup with a gentle precision that allowed the boys' true selves to shine through.

The article itself brought a massive amount of buzz, and Anderson's photos raised that to a nuclear level, with harsh lighting, unflinchingly close-ups of their faces, and posed photos that seemed clearly intended to communicate critical judgment of these people and the roles they were playing in Trump's second term. Many commentators were struck by the brutal detail of some of the photos, showing wrinkles, smeared makeup, stray hairs, and other facial skin imperfections.

City streets can feel chaotic, but sometimes everything aligns-light, color, and timing-to create magic. The Chromatic Awards 2024 Amateur Street Photography winners captured 27 such moments, turning sidewalks and markets into cinematic frames. Their images thrive on details: bold hues, instinctive compositions, and shadows that transform ordinary scenes into visual poetry. What makes them powerful is honesty-people caught mid-thought, mid-routine, or mid-connection, frozen in fleeting beauty.

Sentimental gifts often require personalization. But this year, my friends and I decided to pull back a little bit on holiday gift-giving. So my goal was to come up with something simple and inexpensive that still had a personal touch and looked luxe. With splurge-y custom creations out of the question, I finally found the perfect solution - in an unexpected place - with these double-glass brass picture frames from Amazon.

For 131 years, Pen + Brush has done more than maintain a doorit has insisted it remain open. Open to women, non-binary, and trans artists and writers long before inclusion became a fashionable refrain. On December 14, that legacy manifested not as history, but as lived experience through Revolution in Three Acts: A Sip and Tell, held within Pyaari Azaadi's formidable solo exhibition, Talkin' Bout a Revolutionnow extended through February 14, with its accompanying catalogue forthcoming in January.

The 2025 top spot goes to our interview with Blur drummer Dave Rowntree on his photographs of the Britpop band's rise to fame, documenting the mundanities of their pre-fame youth - like nap times and rollercoaster riding. You always wanted to know what lies behind iconic images, like those from Dennis Morris who documented the early careers of Bob Marley and the Sex Pistols. But it's

My grandfather Sidney Lipsyte, the son of immigrants who became a New York City public-school teacher and administrator, lived from 1904 to 2005, a good run I don't expect to match. He witnessed, and sometimes experienced, a century of mayhem and invention: human flight, human spaceflight, pandemics, vaccines, economic devastation, Nazi conquest, atomic murder, peace treaties, civil rights, pacemakers, penicillin, the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.

We are delighted to introduce Bennet Böckstiegel's captivating series to you. Born in 2000 in Schwerte, Germany, Bennet is a Berlin-based photographer whose work encompasses documentary photography, portraits, and editorials. Since March 2023, he has been honing his craft at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin, where he continues to deepen his creative and technical expertise. Many of Bennet's works thoughtfully explore themes of sexuality and gender, inviting viewers to engage with the deeper nuances of human experience.

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When he took this image, Beijing-based Li was visiting Norway and Iceland with friends, on a trip focused on sightseeing and photographing the aurora borealis. He captured this picture while exploring Sakrisy, a small island in Lofoten, Norway. In the foreground sits this distinctive yellow homestay; in the background, Olstinden mountain. It had snowed heavily all day, Li recalls. As I was setting up to capture this scene, the snow stopped and the sun came out, which made the perfect environment for taking photos.