14 h. ago Photos capture Chileans devotion and celebration for patron saint Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Drawn by faith, Chileans made their way to the sacred sanctuary in La Tirana, on the outskirts of Santiago. Built on ground once hallowed by Chile’s fight for freedom, the shrine honors the Virgen del Carmen or Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the nation’s patron saint, whose feast day, July 16, draws the faithful in prayer and celebration.

Culture

60 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Are your neighbours Neanderthals? They really were 300,000 years ago

Ella Al-Shamahi, tracing the development of Homo sapiens across 300,000 years of prehistory in the first of a five-part series, Human, discovered two caves on the side of Mount Carmel in Israel.

Culture

64 h. ago Reese Witherspoon captured in VERY saucy photos with financier Oliver Haarmann.. as her cheeky pet name for him is revealed

Reese Witherspoon looked totally loved-up with boyfriend Oliver Haarmann as the pair passionately kissed during a holiday in Saint-Tropez on Saturday.

Culture

4 d. ago Luxury €100 million superyacht erupts in flames at Saint Tropez port

This is the moment a luxury €100 million superyacht erupts in flames at the Saint Tropez port in France.

Politics

5 d. ago ‘You don’t get a second chance at a shot like this – horses wander off’: Mike Wells’s best phone picture

The former World Press Photo of the Year winner on why capturing a good image remains instinctive in the age of mobile photography‘Scrambling to catch this shot felt like 3D chess,” says photographer Mike Wells. “My eyes were balancing Connemara’s famous mountains, its wild ponies and the stone walls, while my mind computed the variables: the rush to catch the last rays of evening sun, that moment when a sea breeze lifts the ponies’ manes, and whichever way they will amble next.”In 1981, Wells won the World Press Photo of the Year for an image shot in Uganda depicting a malnourished boy’s hand resting in the palm of a Catholic priest. “When I was working in the 1970s and 80s, unless you could afford a motor drive for your camera, you often got just one chance at the critical shot,” Wells says. “You could never tell whether you really had captured the moment until you got back from Africa, or at least out of the darkroom. That image wasn’t well lit or well composed, ju...

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5 d. ago Shocking moment £80m superyacht bursts into flames while docked in St Tropez

A 41-metre superyacht called Sea Lady ll was filmed engulfed in fire in the harbour of Saint Tropez on the French Riviera with huge flames seen rising into the sky

Economics

6 d. ago Picture This: Notting Hill's most famous road brought to life in pictures

Photographer Brian Jaquest captures all spectrums of life on Notting Hill's Portobello Road - from the street performers, to market sellers, his book has it all.

Politics

6 d. ago A Texas family clung to life on their roof, capturing the terrifying flooding in photos and video

A retired nurse, her son and a family friend say they were lucky to survive last week's flash floods in Texas that killed more than 100 people, including many summer campers

Events

7 d. ago Stephen Salmieri’s Coney Island in black and white – in pictures

Between 1967 and 1972, Brooklyn-born photographer Stephen Salmieri captured life in Coney Island on film, now the subject of an online exhibition from Joseph Bellows Gallery. Salmieri’s vivid pictures, created with a variety of cameras and black and white film, show storefronts, games, the shoreline and the many characters who existed around them Continue reading...

Events

8 d. ago Teenage friends saw nightmarish sight that terrified them while paddleboarding

Two teenage girls were enjoying Independence Day on the water when they came across a horrifying sight. A shocking photo captured the terrifying image.

Events

9 d. ago Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes review – eye

Documentary celebrates the American photographer who lived, breathed and captured the shimmering fever dream of NYC’s gay culture in the 1940s and 50sGeorge Platt Lynes was an American photographer who lived in Paris in the 1920s and then mostly in New York City for the rest of his life; he died in 1955. A gay man who was very out by the standards of the times, he was right in the middle of the one of the most flamboyant bohemian queer scenes of the period. And, man, did he have fun, shagging up a storm and taking nude pictures of beautiful men and women (but mostly men) when he wasn’t earning work shooting fashion spreads for Vogue magazine. This documentary, directed by Sam Shahid, introduces his life and work in a deeply respectful, straightforward way, splicing in hundreds of examples of his mostly black-and-white pictures with curators, admirers and some surviving friends and acquaintances. Notable interviewees include portrait artist Don Bachardy, and the painter Bernard Perli...

Politics

1 week ago Scottish photographer to capture River Spey life 30 years after childhood canoe trip with father

The project will see the photographer travel through the catchment area in different seasons.

Culture

2 w. ago Immigrants, flying sheep and Brigitte Bardot: Britain through the lens of Picture Post

From 1938 to 1957, the celebrated photo magazine captured tattooists, transgender women and topless men sinking pints – and changed the way the country saw itself Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago Drone photos capture construction works underway at Upminster Travelodge site

Drone photos capture construction works underway at Upminster Travelodge site  This Is Local London

Events

2 w. ago A snapshot of Manchester life in June captured through the years in brilliant photos

Looking back at special moments in Manchester in June from the '60s to the '90s

Culture

2 w. ago What would you do with a scarily lifelike doll of your own mother? This is what a seven

Polish photographer Aneta Grzeszykowska captured her daughter interacting with an eerie silicone replica of herself in her dark and humorous series MamaIn one photograph taken by the Polish artist Aneta Grzeszykowska, her seven-year-old daughter Francziska stands on the weedy banks of the Liwiec River, dressed in a purple swimsuit and denim shorts. Francziska has her face turned towards the boggy water; beside her, sitting inside a wheelbarrow, is her mother’s torso.In the next ambiguous image, Francziska holds her mother’s head underwater. In the another, the two float, Ophelia-like, side by side. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Leith exhibition to celebrate Scottish surfing and surf photography

A new exhibition will celebrate both the skills of Scotland’s surfers and talents of the photographers who capture their exploits, writes Margaret Neighbour

Culture

3 w. ago ‘Liam had been drinking all night. Noel was not in a great mood’: photographers pick their best Oasis shot

Lairy, drunk, fighting, laughing five photographers who shot Oasis recall what it was like capturing them in depressing pre-fame hotels – and at their Champagne Supernova heightsI didn’t really know the Gallaghers then. I had only shot Oasis at the Q awards and live shows. In 2001, I was commissioned by a US publication for a feature about The US tour of Brotherly Love, with Oasis, the Black Crowes and Spacehog. All the bands had two brothers in them, and I had been asked to photograph the Gallaghers and the Robinsons from the Black Crowes together. Continue reading...

Culture

3 w. ago Photographer from Glasgow captures amazing wildlife on a 'secret' African safari

While most wildlife photographers chase summer sightings, one Scottish traveller discovered a different kind of magic by heading to Kenya during its most overlooked time of year - the green season.

Culture

3 w. ago The beautiful scenes captured by photographer who visits the beach every morning at dawn

James Richardson lives opposite the beach at Penarth and goes out every morning to capture the daybreak dippers

Culture