It might look like an abstract field of faded hues, but this is the oldest photograph ever taken. More accurately, it’s the first photograph from “nature” taken, as its creator Joseph Nicéphore Niépce ...

Since its premiere at Sundance, 'The Stringer' has led to a divisive re-examination of the credit for the Pulitzer Prize–winning 1972 photograph that captured the horrors of the Vietnam War. By Allen ...

Best known for her iconic photograph Migrant Mother, photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) had a career that spanned more than four decades. In 1919 at the age of 23 she daringly opened a portrait ...

More than 50 million light-years away, in the heart of a giant elliptical galaxy called Messier 87, a gargantuan beast is devouring anything that strays too near. Stars, planets, gas, and dust—not ...

In March the Sony World Photography Awards announced the winning entry in their creative photo category: a black-and-white image of an older woman embracing a younger one, entitled PSEUDOMNESIA: The ...

Ruth Simbao receives funding from the South African National Research Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sensing the impact these photographs would have in exposing the cruelty of ...