3 h. ago ‘Reflecting on this photo, I feel emotional’: Karen Weideman’s best phone picture

Since Weideman took this image, her husband, pictured inside the bus, has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, giving it more resonanceThe restored heritage village of Old Petrie Town lies about a 90-minute drive from the farm in Queensland, Australia, where Karen Weideman lives. She and her husband, Michael, were visiting back in 2022 when she took this photo on her iPhone 11. “The town is spread across 48 acres of parkland, and some of the buildings date back to the 1800s. It has markets, museums and galleries; we love to just wander around, taking in the sights,” she says. “You’re also spoiled for choice when it comes to food; we had some incredible chicken satay for lunch. Then it started raining so we began heading home, but we passed these beautiful old buses on the way. Number 77 was a Brisbane city council school bus from the 60s.”Always on the lookout for new things to photograph, she asked Michael to step inside and pose for her. “He’s for ever patient, and my biggest ...

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7 d. ago British 'cocaine kingpin' is pictured in selfie 'sent on encrypted phone used to plan gangland murder from his luxury Dubai base'

British 'cocaine kingpin' James Harding, 34, can be seen in the photographs grinning and posing in the gym and a bathroom located inside The Nest development in Al Barari, Dubai.

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1 week ago ‘I don’t date at all now’: one woman’s journey into the darkest corners of the manosphere

When Jess Davies was 15, a boy leaked pictures she’d shared with him. At 18, she was a glamour model. A few years later, another man violated her trust. Then she fought backJess Davies was a 15-year-old schoolgirl, sitting in an art lesson, absorbed in her fairytale project about a princess and a postman, when her Nokia phone began to vibrate with messages. “Nice pictures,” read one. “I didn’t think you were that type of girl,” said another.To this day, she remembers the racing thoughts, the instant nausea, the hairs prickling up on her legs, the sweaty palms. She had shared a photograph of herself in her underwear with a boy she trusted and, very soon, it had been sent around the school and across her small home town, Aberystwyth, Wales. She became a local celebrity for all the wrong reasons. Younger kids would approach her laughing and ask for a hug. Members of the men’s football team saw it – and one showed someone who knew Davies’s nan, so that’s how her family found out. Contin...

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2 w. ago ‘I positioned myself against a wall and waited’: Michel Kharoubi’s best phone picture

The city is a set for an urban opera, the French photographer says of Paris. All it needs is the right passersbyOn the day he took this image, French photographer Michel Kharoubi was on his way to visit his father in a medical retirement home. This was shot in Les Olympiades, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, but Kharoubi notes that the specific location is not important to him.“I don’t practise realistic or documentary street photography, but try to capture iconic urban images,” he says. “I positioned myself against a wall and waited for the right characters to pass by.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Moment phone thief who snatched nine phones in London, including one from a blind victim is taken down by ceremonial officer outside hall

Oliver Brady (pictured), 27, of Edmonton, north London, had just nabbed the phone of IT worker Nicky Jones, 51, of Ascot, Berkshire, as she arrived at work in central London one day in February.

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2 w. ago 'Stupid' drug trafficker posed with shotgun and spelt out his initials with bullets

Gang member Joshua Caldwell was found to be linked to a major drugs conspiracy after pictures of firearms were discovered on a seized phone.

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3 w. ago ‘This trick is incredibly risky for him’: Ankit Ghosh’s best phone picture

The Indian photographer captures his neighbour breathing fire at the finale of a major Hindu festivalIn a narrow lane in Kolkata, West Bengal, Ankit Ghosh paused for a moment to take this photo. Ghosh was among crowds attending Vijaya Dashami, the last day of the Durga Puja, a festival he describes as “cultural potpourri”. He says, “It’s celebrated all across India, but there is no other place to experience it better than West Bengal. As this was the grand finale, the atmosphere was one of joy, pride and celebration.”The man in the photo is Ghosh’s neighbour. “He’s a fine performer of this trick, which you don’t see very often; it is generally saved up for special festivals and celebrations,” Ghosh says. “The liquid in the air is kerosene [paraffin], which is spat upwards through a lit matchstick to create these cloudy flames. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago ‘The plane I was supposed to be on passed above me’: Nima Bank’s best phone picture

Losing track of time at the airport made the Iranian-born photographer reflect on how we deal with setbacksNima Bank was meant to be on the plane soaring overhead in this image. Unfortunately, he had been daydreaming in Istanbul airport, enjoying a coffee, and lost track of time. Once he realised his error, and that he would be stranded in the airport for the rest of the day, he says, “I found myself contemplating how a single missed connection could alter a life’s entire trajectory. What new possibilities had this delay set in motion? Was it a loss, or a redirection toward something else?”The film-maker and photographer, originally from Iran, now living in Turkey, adds, “When the very plane I should have been on passed above me, it felt symbolic; like a reminder that movement, pause and change are all part of the journey.” Continue reading...

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