18 h. ago Sebastião Salgado captured the world like no other photographer

The death of the esteemed black-and-white photographer leaves behind a rich library of over 500,000 images showing Earth in all its beauty and darkness‘I photographed the world’: the career of Sebastião Salgado – in picturesIt’s a testament to the epic career of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, who died this week at age 81, that this year has already seen exhibitions of hundreds of his photos in Mexico City, France and southern California. Salgado, who in his lifetime produced more than 500,000 images while meticulously documenting every continent on Earth and many of the major geopolitical events since the second world war, will be remembered as one of the world’s most prodigious and relentlessly empathetic chroniclers of the human condition.An economist by training, Salgado only began photographing at age 29 after picking up the camera of his wife, Lélia. He began working as a photojournalist in the 1970s, quickly building an impressive reputation that led him to the pres...

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3 d. ago Brother of teenage photographer Liz Hatton who captured the hearts of Princess Kate and the nation gives royal TWO special gifts at Buckingham Palace Garden Party

Mateo Robayna, nine, wanted to give the couple two special gifts, and while both may seem odd choices, they do in fact have very special meaning for both Liz, as well as the royals.

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3 d. ago Brother of teenage photographer Liz Hatton who captured the hearts of Princess Kate and the nation gives Duchess TWO special gifts at Buckingham Palace Garden Party

Mateo Robayna, nine, wanted to give the couple two special gifts, and while both may seem odd choices, they do in fact have very special meaning for both Liz, as well as the royals.

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4 d. ago Kylie Minogue in pictures at triumphant AO Arena Manchester return

Pop princess Kylie Minogue made a triumphant return to Manchester's AO Arena for a record-breaking 32nd time - our photographer captured her entrance

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5 d. ago Moment Hawaii volcano spews lava 600ft in the air as 'golden glass' rains down

EXCLUSIVE: A daring photographer captured the moment Hawaii's Kilauea volcano spewed lava for the 21st time in recent weeks in stunning video footage as part of its ongoing eruption

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6 d. ago Difference 10 years makes: Filmmaker shoots people at 50 and a decade later... the results are astounding

Dutch photographer and filmmaker Jeroen Wolf went about capturing 50 of his school friends to mark their 50th birthdays. He then returned 10 years later...

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8 d. ago Stunning St Andrews Old Course Aurora Borealis image taken by greenkeeper is up for grabs for £100

Keen photographer Jon Wood captured his breathtaking snap in the middle of the night

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1 week ago Palace buried photographs of Princess Diana and David Bowie for nearly 40 years to quash affair rumours

The backstage image of a smiling Diana next to an equally ecstatic Bowie was captured by photographer Denis O'Regan during the pop star's 1987 Wembley concert.

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2 w. ago ‘Climate change is real’: devastating wildfire photography – in pictures

Artist and photographer Phil Buehler captured some of the worst-hit properties from this year’s Eaton Fire in Altadena, Los Angeles and assembled them for this year’s Spring/Break art show taking place in New York City until 12 May. The exhibit will include a cyclorama with some of the 9/11 calls during the fires playing softly in the background Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘The beauty of this angle is the distortion’: Sanket Khuntale’s best phone photo

The Indian photographer was delighted with the image he captured during a stroll in Pritisangam Gardens with friendsSanket Khuntale describes Pritisangam Gardens in Karad, India as “a go-to hangout spot for everyone in town”. Khuntale lives in Mumbai now, but visits the gardens as a ritual every time he goes home to Karad. On the day he took this photo, in 2017, he was there to meet friends for an evening stroll. The gardens lie against the banks where the Krishna and Koyna rivers meet, and the group walked by the water, talking, admiring their surroundings and stopping for street food.One of the group was Khuntale’s childhood friend Tejali, who had been stopping to pick flowers along the way. Khuntale suggested taking a photo with his mobile phone. He positioned himself behind Tejali’s head to take the shot, then later rotated the image 180 degrees. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago New photo of Princess Charlotte released as she celebrates her 10th birthday

The Princess of Wales, a keen amateur photographer, regularly captures images of her children to mark special occasions

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4 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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last month ‘I love humans – it gives me the courage to approach them’: the disarming work of Mao Ishikawa

For five decades the Japanese photographer has captured the internal lives of a host of unlikely subjects, from dockers to Black GIs. Now a new show celebrates an artist dedicated to documenting the underdogIn 1975, when Mao Ishikawa was in her early 20s, she took a job in a bar frequented by Black American GIs stationed at Camp Hansen, in Okinawa. She had grown up hating the Americans who controlled her home island and, to this day, maintain military bases there. Yet she found kindred spirits among the soldiers and her fellow barmaids, with whom she lived and loved and also photographed. These images became her first major documentary series, Red Flower: The Women of Okinawa, and capture a sense of their youthful freedom and outsider bonhomie, from the group of men and women hanging out in bed to the trio hitting the town for a night out, the women’s hair teased into afros, massive hoop earrings glinting.Like much of what you can discover in Ishikawa’s first UK surve...

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