Photography

Photography

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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"We make a lot of work together, but we do carry our own cameras and, within that shared universe, really operate as individuals. It may sound strange to people from afar, but for us that really does make a difference - whether I shoot a photo by myself. In small ways, we try to find our own individual work, which is also healthy, I think, and nice to do."

Photographing the Northern Lights is one of those unforgettable bucket-list moments that feels deeply soul-stirring. Standing beneath a sky that suddenly bursts into neon ribbons is like watching the universe put on a private show. In 2025, the aurora delivered spectacular displays, with geomagnetic storms lighting up skies far beyond the usual polar regions. The 8th edition of The Northern Lights Photographer of the Year showcases 25 breathtaking images, from glowing fjords to shimmering lagoons and forests transformed by cosmic colors.

"Seattle's cosplay photography is a treasure trove of inspiration for fans of the genre. Check out these real-life cosplay locations and photos taken by @mrdangphotos. From costumes to locations, get the scoop on how to recreate these looks and capture your own cosplay moments in Seattle." effect, in which bots are essentially eating themselves over and over, in order to game their own systems.

From Iceland's Arctic Henge to snowy forests, the vistas represented in the 2025 Northern Lights Photographer of the Year contest highlight the visual symphony of geomagnetic light phenomena. Paired with distinctive landscapes, the images illuminate our planet's unique relationship with the sun. While photographers captured some scenes in subarctic regions where the northern lights are vivid and common, others created images farther south or in the opposite hemisphere, where the phenomenon is known as aurora australis.

I am a photographer based in Japan.My work focuses on capturing subtle strangeness, uncanny tension, and slight misalignments found in everyday life. This editorial reflects that perspective.When I saw the styling, it immediately evoked the mood of the early 2000s.I found it fascinating to see young Reiwageneration models embody that mood, and I wanted to capture the tension created by that temporal shift.

Olivia, our granddaughter, said, " If there isn't a photo, it didn't happen." This may be a bit extreme, but to some, photography freezes time with an immediacy no other medium can match. A photo is an imprint of something that truly exists: a person, a place, or a gesture. To accumulate such images is to collect moments that survive.

For the past 12 months, photographer Myla Faith Thomas has been photographing burlesque performers globally in an effort to examine how the art form functions as a space for self-invention, resistance, and radical visibility. What began as a portrait study of the UK scene has expanded into a broader exploration of contemporary burlesque culture and an internal investigation of the body, confidence and sensuality.

The International Wedding Photographer of the Year awards announced the winners of its 2025 contest. The winning photos featured poignant moments, stunning landscapes, and lively wedding celebrations. The overall winning photo showed a young boy gazing through a window at a wedding cake. After the vows are exchanged and the dance floor clears, wedding photos help preserve the memories for years to come.

Our community was made up of wonderful people, and she knew the value and impact a portrait could have on someone's feelings of pride and belonging,

Undeniably, this body of work greets the viewer with the intimacy of a whispered secret and the force of an unexpected confession, a kind of aesthetic breathlessness that lingers in the mind long after the first encounter. In an instant, one realizes they are facing far more than a collection of paintingswhat stands before them is an excavation. Wright cuts through the collective sediment of imagespublic, private, ephemeral, sacredand exposes the psychological bedrock that binds them.

Wildlife photography already carries immense power, but in monochrome it transforms into something raw and dramatic. The 2024 Monochrome Photography Awards showcased 37 breathtaking wildlife shots, proving black-and-white can rival or even surpass color. From roaring lions to towering elephants, sharp-winged birds, and tiny creatures full of attitude, each image tells a vivid story through light and shadow. Stripped of color, every texture and detail stands out with striking clarity, deepening the mood and amplifying the drama.

In a penal system that legalises slavery, who is the real criminal? That question lies at the heart of Danny Lyon's landmark 1971 monograph, Conversations with the Dead, a masterwork of New Journalism chronicling crime and punishment in the United States. After his work in the Civil Rights Movement and with the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club , Lyon gained unprecedented access to seven penitentiaries inside the Texas Department of Corrections over 14 months in 1967-68 to create a Dostoevskyian journey into the belly of the beast.

Norway has never looked as wet as in the photographs of the late Tom Sandberg. There are shots of drizzle and puddles, of asphalt slick with mizzle. A ripple of water appears to have a hole in it, a figure looms behind a rain-dappled window, a gutter glows after a downpour. Shot in either bold chiaroscuro or gentle orchestrations of greys, these are pictures with the power to make the everyday seem dreamlike.

In the first days of November, the Zum Festival took place - an annual event dedicated to contemporary photography that features talks, workshops, exhibitions, and a photobook fair at the Moreira Salles Institute. The festival is organised by Zum, the institute's outstanding semi-annual photography magazine coordinated by Thyago Nogueira, which has become my compass for what is most interesting and innovative in contemporary visual culture in Brazil and beyond.

"I pair a photograph of a Palestinian girl from the 1950s, displaced and waiting for food aid from UNRWA, with a looping GIF sent to me by one of my best friends in Gaza. It shows the last meal she has left, and her desperation to feed ten family members with what little remains," says Glorianna. Next to the image, a WhatsApp message reads '[12:36, Gaza/2025] Yousef: I'm okay but losing weight because of famine and starvation.'

Poised on a steel cable a quarter of a mile above Manhattan, a weather-beaten man in work dungarees reaches up to tighten a bolt. Below, though you hardly dare to look down, lies the Hudson River, the sprawling cityscape of New York and the US itself, rolling out on to the far horizon. If you fell from this rarefied spot, it would take about 11 seconds to hit the ground.

IN 2025, fascism is rapidly being consolidated in America. Along with gutting the rule of law, the military occupation of cities, unbridled violence and cruelty, the support of Palestinian genocide, overt racism, the suppression of dissent, and the shameless substitution of propaganda for truth, this US fascism relies on nationalism (including the division of society into those who belong as Americans and those who do not) and unquestioning patriotism.