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Photographer Lola Flash is honored for creating images that challenge invisibility

5:05pm December 14, 2021

by Allyson McCabe

Lola Flash has challenged gender, sexual and racial preconceptions, and in the '80s was a key figure in ACT UP. Now she's being honored for sustained achievement.

An overturned tree sits in front of a tornado damaged home in Mayfield, Ky

National

Photos: Scenes from the deadly tornadoes in the South and Midwest

6:58pm December 11, 2021

by Virginia Lozano

Tornadoes hit several states in the central U.S., killing dozens in a devastating path of destruction.

We meet a man who photographs the sun

7:59am December 07, 2021

By layering 150,000 individual images, an astrophotographer from Arizona has captured what could be the most intricately detailed photo ever captured of the sun.

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A file picture taken in January 2011 in Paris shows covers of some of the 42 foreign editions of the French fashion magazine "Elle", owned by French media conglomerate Lagardere.

Elle magazine says it will ban fur from its publications worldwide

7:32pm December 02, 2021

by Jonathan Franklin

So far, 13 editions globally have implemented the ban, with 20 more set to do so by January 1. The magazine says the decision reflects changing tastes in fashion.

Picture for Women, 1979, transparency in lightbox

Arts

Why the photographer Jeff Wall relies on memory—not his camera—to make his art

11:41am December 02, 2021

by Susan Stamberg

Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Md., is hosting five decades worth of art by Canadian Jeff Wall, a photographer who begins a work "by not photographing."

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Nyayua Thang, 62, left, stands waist-deep in the floodwaters in front of an abandoned primary school in South Sudan. Members of her village, displaced by extreme flooding as a result of heavy rainfall, are using the building as a refuge. Only small mud di

Prize-winning photos capture the grit and suffering of flood survivors in South Sudan

7:00am November 20, 2021

by Diane Cole

The photo series Unyielding Floods recently won its fifth award this year. It captures the strength and hardship of those affected by flooding of biblical proportions in South Sudan.

Arts

Photographer and director Gordon Parks captured the Black experience

1:58pm November 19, 2021

by Terry Gross

Parks, who died in 2006, worked for Life magazine and later became the first Black director of a Hollywood film. He's the subject of the documentary, A Choice of Weapons. Originally broadcast in 1990.

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Creatures Under The Water Award: Time for school in Singapore.

Arts

The winners of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards will brighten your day

6:07pm November 18, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

Among this year's winners are a trio of gossipy raccoons, a joyful bird reunion and an all-powerful prairie dog.

A man holding a child wipes his eye as the Kurdish family from Dohuk in Iraq waits for the border guard patrol, near Narewka, Poland, near the Polish-Belarusian border on Nov. 9. The three-generation family of 16 — with seven minors, including the young

World News

Here's what it's like for migrants trapped between Belarus and Poland

2:00pm November 16, 2021

Thousands of migrants are camped along the border of Belarus and Poland, trapped between the countries. EU officials accuse Belarus of luring them across the border.

Teafua Tanu is an islet of Tokelau used by residents of Fakaofo atoll as a Catholic cemetery. Over the past two decades, the territory of Tokelau has proved extremely vulnerable to climate change and rising sea levels owing, partly, to its being a small l

Their lands are oceans apart but are linked by rising, warming seas of climate change

8:09am November 12, 2021

Photographer Vlad Sokhin's latest work, Warm Waters, is an exploration of climate change traveling across 18 countries and off-the-map territories seen by seldom few.