Leica counted down the days to Christmas in style, delivering daily videos that showcase "the most special things" in the company's archives. As is tradition, the photographic advent calendar of sorts concluded yesterday, Christmas Eve, and we thought a nice little Christmas present to our passionate readers was a recap of Leica's Christmas countdown.
Photographer Ari Rabin-Havt has always wanted to get a picture from inside a shark's mouth, looking out.
Award-winning South African photographer Shem Compion's latest photography book, "The Rift: Scar of Africa," features nearly 300 photos from Compion's more than 20 years of exploring and photographing the Great Rift Valley in Africa.
After spending all day skateboarding in the desert Sun, photographer Travis Burke was surprisingly stressed. Why? He had the shot of his dreams to capture.
The winners of the annual W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography -- one of the largest grants in support of the photographic arts that opened for entries in July -- have been announced and the winner is Palestinian-American Maen Hammad, for his project Amira’s Castle, an ongoing exploration of his grandparents’ lives and his own documentation of the Palestinian present.
Around 4,100 photographers from 123 different countries entered over 23,000 photos into the World Sports Photography Awards 2026 competition. While the winners won't be revealed until next month, the finalists across the contest's 24 categories have been selected, and every single photo is incredible.
Photographer Vitor Schietti’s images feel less like frozen instants and more like memories caught mid-drift. Hovering between observation and imagination, his images stretch time, bend light, and invite viewers into moments that feel both familiar and otherworldly.
The Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, is celebrating 50 years of being a champion of photography as art. It has made a lasting impact on photographers and photography itself far beyond Oregon.
HIPA, the world's most lucrative photo contest awarding $1 million in total prizes annually, announced its 2025 winners on November 11 in Dubai, the popular business and tourist destination in the United Arab Emirates. The Photo Appreciation Award of $100,000 went to photographer, film producer, and best-selling author with five million books in print, Rick Smolan.
Photographer Peter Turnley arrived in Paris in 1975 aged 20. Since then he has thrown himself into the City of Light, documenting its comings and goings on his trusty Leicas.
Some obsessions never let you go. For Jack Lueders-Booth, it began when he was nine years old and saw his first motorcycle and fell in love.
No club scene anywhere else in the world can match Berlin for its mystique, magnetism, and music. The city draws in creatives from all over -- including photographer Chris Noltekuhmann, who has spent the past two and a half years taking portraits of ravers moments after they left the venue.
Artist and photographer Alexander Newman Hall went viral recently for a laser photo he created for a multimedia project. However, the internet success came at a great cost, as Hall broke his camera.
A photographer has captured not one but two rare forms of lightning, which he compares to the famous scene from Independence Day when the alien mothership destroys the White House.
When Google Street View rolled out in 2007, it became the "world's photographer." Since then, artist Jon Rafman has been collecting moments captured by Google's Street View cars.
The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards have unveiled their highly anticipated winning photos. The annual competition, sure to put a smile on everyone's faces, garnered a record-breaking number of entries this year.
The window to enter the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards 2026 is quickly closing, and photographers have about a month left to enter this year's competition. Entries remain open for the Professional, Open, and Youth competitions until early January, and there are some fantastic prizes up for grabs. The Sony World Photography Awards have shared 21 entries from the upcoming competition to inspire other photographers to join the competition.
Capture the Atlas has unveiled the winners of its eighth annual Northern Lights Photographer of the Year contest, and the 15 award-winning photos below are as beautiful as they are inspiring.
Based on the novella of the same name, Netflix's new film "Train Dreams" is shot to look like photos from the era in which the movie takes place: the early 20th century. Although shot on modern Arri Alexa 35 cameras, the film employs a 3:2 aspect ratio, is almost entirely lit with natural light, and has an exceptionally filmic, beautiful appearance.
A photographer has captured a series of exquisite images of foxes in snow to highlight each of their personalities and to show they don't deserve their "sly" and "cunning" labels.
Photographer Albert Cornelissen wanted a medium-format rangefinder camera that could utilize great glass and wouldn't break the bank. The second restriction meant the legendary Mamiya 7 and Fujifilm GF670 cameras were out of the question, so Cornelissen took matters into his own hands and built his dream camera: The MRF2.
Late in 2021, Jack Smith opened the first of two carefully wrapped boxes filled with old photographic slides that had been sitting in his parents' garage for his entire life. What he found was astonishing: his grandfather’s archive of 80,000 images taken across decades and 40 countries.
At the end of each year, TIME selects its Top 100 photos of the year. As always, the 2025 edition is replete with superb photography, ranging from split-second action shots of important news events to powerful photos from longer-term projects, the collection is a compelling visual reminder of the major events of 2025 and, perhaps as importantly, photography's power in telling the world's most important stories.
The winners of the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2025 showcase the best scientific photography worldwide across multiple categories, celebrating the overlap between compelling art and influential science.
The winners of the 2025 International Wedding Photographer of the Year Awards (IWPOTY) have been announced, with U.K. photographer David Scholes awarded the Grand Winner title for his
humorous and beautifully composed capture of a young wedding guest peering curiously at the wedding cake.
For more than twenty years, documentary photographer Jonathan Alpeyrie has worked inside some of the world’s most volatile environments, from front-line trenches in the Middle East to fragile, contested communities across Africa. With his new project, Drug Wars: Supply and Demand, Alpeyrie brings that same sensibility to one of the Western Hemisphere’s most complex and destabilizing issues: the international narcotics trade.
The winners of the 12th International Landscape Photographer of the Year have been announced, and J. Fritz Rumpf of the United States has been named as the winner.
Back in 2015, Scottish photographer Alan McFadyen spent six years and fired off 720,000 shots in his quest to capture the perfect kingfisher photograph -- an image that went on to become an internet sensation. A decade later, armed with modern camera technology, he recreated the same shot in just six minutes.
A filmmaker has launched a cinematic timelapse film series capturing the raw beauty and quiet resilience of America’s national parks in the hope that his work might support the NPS.
Award-winning photographer Stephen Wilkes has two photos in this year's National Geographic Pictures of the Year, a celebration of 25 of the best and most important photos featured in this year's issues of National Geographic. The photos, Wilkes' famous Day to Night images, add a new layer -- time -- to beautiful wildlife scenes.
HIPA, the world's most profitable photo contest, announced its 2025 winners with the theme Power on 11th November in Dubai, the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates.
"The older I get, the closer I get," says street photographer Bruce Gilden. Now in his seventies, Gilden's latest book examines photographs he made in the U.K. across the 1970s and 2000s -- when he was very, very close to his subjects.
A Magnum photographer has released new work that focuses on young people living in the peripheries of Spain -- reflecting the alienation and uncertainty of the present era.
The Royal Photographic Society Awards are the world's longest-running photography prize, and the fantastic 2025 winners have been unveiled. The recipients exemplify significant talent and contribution across the art and science of photography.
A photographer was on hand to document the dramatic birth of a killer whale calf, capturing what scientists say is the first verified imagery of an orca being born in the wild and of its first hour of life.
The North American Nature Photography Association has revealed the winning photos for its 2026 Showcase, featuring stunning landscape images, action shots of wildlife, eye-popping macro photos, and powerful conservation work.
The World Photography Organization and the Sony World Photography Awards have announced that acclaimed photographer Joel Meyerowitz will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award at the Sony World Photography Awards 2026.
The Nature inFocus Photography Awards winners have been announced. Over 1,250 photographers from nearly 40 countries entered nearly 16,000 images this year, competing across eight categories.
National Geographic has unveiled its annual Pictures of the Year, showcasing 25 incredible images that exemplify National Geographic's acclaimed storytelling.
The British Photography Awards 2025 brings together photographers from across the globe, presenting an extraordinary array of images that celebrate technical skill, creative storytelling, and a remarkable eye for beauty in all its forms. From sweeping landscapes and dynamic street photography to intimate portraits, wildlife encounters, and conceptual fine art, this year’s entries reveal the depth and diversity of contemporary photography.
Film photography is popular for many reasons, but chief among them are color and grain: in short, the "vibe." Photographer Pablo Maraver spent the last year and a half focusing on the former, extensively using and testing 14 different 35mm film stocks to build a comprehensive guide to their color science.
A wildlife photographer in South Africa captured a rare encounter between two of the most unlikely creatures: a dung beetle and a leopard.
World Press Photo is celebrating 70 iconic photographs taken over the past 70 years with a print sale: 70 Prints for 70 Years. Some of these shots have never been sold as prints before.
A photo restorer has breathed new life into the only universally accepted portrait of Billy the Kid, giving viewers a clearer image of the Wild West's most infamous outlaw.
The Nature Photographer of the Year 2025 winners have been revealed, and acclaimed Norwegian photographer Åsmund Keilen has earned the prestigious title, "Nature Photographer of the Year," for his breathtaking, ethereal photo of a bird in flight against the glowing Sun.
At the end of his life, English author George Orwell sought refuge on a remote Scottish island to finish his final and most famous book: 1984.
The world's most profitable photography contest, HIPA, announced its 14th annual awards themed 'Power' on 11th November 2025, where 87,000 images from 50,000 photographers vied for the top honors. This year's awards ceremony was held at the Museum of the Future in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has captured a stupendous shot of a skydiver falling in front of the Sun. It was incredibly difficult -- requiring precise planning and coordination -- but the pair ultimately pulled it off on the sixth attempt.
One Saturday morning in the North of England, amateur photographer Chris Bennett got caught in the rain -- typical for the area. He took refuge in an unloved phone booth and began shooting pictures from inside.
The Siena Drone Photo Awards 2025 winners have been revealed, showcasing incredible aerial photography across a diverse range of subjects, from landscapes to wildlife and even people.
