After being recognised at the Mobile Photography awards 2020, Christian Barroso travelled from his home in Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo for the exhibition of winning images. He was joined by three friends and, after seeing his work on display, they headed to Farol Santander, a skyscraper in the city centre housing a museum, galleries and observation deck. The exhibition was delayed until the summer of 2021 because of the Covid pandemic, so we were living in the first moments of normal' life
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Here is another outstanding example, from writer-director Yemi Bamiro, about the remarkable career of Kwame Brathwaite, a photographer, musician and African American activist who was a unique politico-aesthete. With his brother Elombe, he virtually invented the phrase Black Is Beautiful in the 1960s by photographing the Grandassa Models in Harlem: young African American women who became the sensational template for beauty, doing away with the usual cosmetic products and the usual white standard of femininity.
The subject of photographer Whitney Browne's new book, Candy Store, is, foremost, Ray Alvarez's iconic shop on Avenue A, Ray's Candy Store. But it's also about the East Village neighborhood, it's a salute to the endurance of a small business owner who has endured economic and health crises, and Browne says, it's a tribute to who I was at that time.
It sums up a stillness, a sadness and a romantic passion that breathes in this show but you won't notice it straight away. Instead you'll be carried along in a rush of cheeky provocations and ludicrous juxtapositions of word and image: a joyous embrace of modern life or even, pardon my French, a jouissance. The pictures tower and expand in this perfect brutalist setting as if you're walking through a city of art a dirty, disreputable city.
"It was the post-war period in England when everything came back to life and suddenly had a different energy primarily expressed through music. Music was the great driver," says documentary filmmaker and screenwriter Andrew Maclear.
Group stress seems to be spreading like a bad cold. People seem on edge. Tempers are shorter. There's more honking at the green light. Conversations often turn to resigned regret about the division in the country. And the other day, someone I hadn't seen in 35 years left a surprisingly snarky comment on a social media post, an act out of character for the person I once knew.
The vantage point from the Cliff House is typically pretty banal, showing endless volleyball nets and some fog. But the vibe last Saturday was crop circle. A mass of people congregated on the beach with rakes in hand, creating some of the best and most organized sand art I've ever seen. It looked like TikTok-famous 2024 aliens had ditched the cornfields in 2025 to gentrify Ocean Beach - upgrading the coarse, unkempt sand with sprawling geometric patterns.
Craggy coves and sandy bays make up the resplendent mix that is the Athens Riviera. So it was that at the end of an autumn day I found myself with a not unpleasant question: where to head to soothe bones still aching for a last splash of summer sun. For Athens offers something that other European cities cannot: a coastline of more than 40 miles dotted with beaches many a Greek island would covet.
The 2025 GDT Nature Photographer of the Year competition has unveiled a stunning collection of twenty award-winning images that capture birds and mammals in breathtaking detail. These photographs go far beyond aesthetics, offering rare glimpses into the hidden lives of wildlife through extraordinary patience and technical mastery. From icy northern terrains to lush tropical forests, the winning shots span diverse ecosystems and showcase the richness of animal life across the globe.
My aspirations have remained the same: to document the contemporary cultural landscape and to produce a decent photograph a photograph that acknowledges the medium's allegiance to reality and that preserves for myself and others a unique and honest sense of the subject. The environmental details have been kept to a minimum. The subjects have the frame to themselves and do not compete with context for attention. This provides for a simpler, blunter, more intense encounter with character. It is character that animates the image.
We are partnering with Capture Photography Festival -the largest lens-based art festival in Western Canada-for the seventh time! We are in charge of selecting a public art installation which will be mounted at the Olympic Village Canada Line Station in Vancouver from April-August 2026. We are currently accepting applications from photographers and lens-based artists around the world. The deadline for submissions is October 20th, 2025.
Coreen Simpson-photographer, writer, jeweler-has done it all. Working for publications such as Essence, Unique New York, and The Village Voice, from the late 1970s onward, Simpson covered New York's art and fashion scenes, producing portraits of a wide range of Black artists, literary figures, and celebrities. Her iconic jewelry, the Black Cameo, has been worn by everyone from the model Iman to civil-rights leader Rosa Parks.
The 2025 Astronomy Photographer of the Year celebrates the magic of the night sky with awe-inspiring images from the Aurorae and Skyscapes categories. Out of thousands of global submissions, photographs reveal the dedication and artistry of astrophotographers who capture fleeting cosmic beauty. These winning entries showcase stunning juxtapositions of earthly landscapes and celestial phenomena, from shimmering auroras to the glowing Milky Way.
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.
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.
She wrote it down and kept returning to it, consumed by the ideas it evoked of mapping feelings and place, and the correlation between geography and experience - a kind of emotional cartography. At the same time, she'd been thinking about psychogeography and the practice of exploring our environments guided solely by subjective impulses and the desire to generate chance encounters and uncover hidden histories and memories.
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.
