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If You Licked These Photos They Would Taste Like New York. (So Don’t Lick Them.)

A look at a century of New York photographs by The Times’s staff photographers.

At 90, Photographer Fred Baldwin Still Has ‘So Much Work Left to Do’

Having documented Sami herders and the civil rights movement, and having just published a memoir, the photographer says his life’s work is far from complete.

Images of an El Salvador Town Transformed by Migration

Three journalists present a complicated exploration of the effects of remittances in the Central American town of Intipucá.

‘Shaft’? We’re Talking About Gordon Parks … and We Can Dig It

A look at how the photographer translated his humanistic view of urban crime to the silver screen.

20 Photographers From a Decade of Lens

Our mixtape continues with more photos and videos that have appeared in The New York Times Lens column over the past decade.

10 Years of Photography, and Lens

A look back at a decade of The New York Times Lens column.

Documenting Climate Change by Air, Land and Sea

The New York Times photographer Josh Haner has spent the past four years capturing the effects of climate change around the world and under water.

The Racial Bias Built Into Photography

Sarah Lewis explores the relationship between racism and the camera.

Photos of Yemen War and Central American Asylum Seekers Win Pulitzers

Lorenzo Tugnoli of The Washington Post took the award for feature photography and the photo staff of Reuters won for breaking news photography.

Is This the Best Photo of the Year?

John Moore’s photo of a 2-year-old asylum seeker and her mother being detained was named photo of the year in the World Press Photo contest.

Despite Prison and Torture, Shahidul Alam Refuses to Stay Quiet

Ahead of his court case, the Bangladeshi photojournalist and activist discussed democratizing photography and government censorship at the New York Portfolio Review.

Andre Kertesz’s Photos From His Window

The photographer’s images of Washington Square Park revealed, with affection and longing, a Hungarian émigré who was an outsider in his adopted land.

Updating Norman Rockwell’s ‘Four Freedoms’ for a Modern, Diverse America

Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur recreated Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” series, featuring scenes that reflect this country’s complexity and diversity over 75 years later.

Our White House Photographer on Covering President Trump

Having covered the White House for over three decades, Doug Mills discusses the challenges of his job.

This Photo of a 7-Year-Old Girl Transformed the Abolition Movement

Abolitionists used a daguerreotype of Mary Mildred Williams, a light-skinned black girl born into slavery, to win over potentially sympathetic white Americans during the 19th century.

The Best Photos From the 76th Pictures of the Year International

Fabio Bucciarelli was named Photographer of the Year and Jessica Phelps won Newspaper Photographer of the Year. The New York Times was cited for excellence in photo editing.

Shahidul Alam’s Photo Festival in Bangladesh Is ‘an Act of Defiance’

Despite Mr. Alam’s arrest for speaking out against his country’s government, Chobi Mela continues to showcase photography beyond the Western viewpoint.

Capturing the Soul: Photographic Portraiture Before the Smartphone Era

From F.B.I. posters to commissioned family photos, portraits have long revealed how people wanted to be presented, and sometimes how they didn’t.

Bearing Witness to Jim Crow in Mississippi With Uncompromising Candor

Florence Mars captured a fading but no less virulent racial order in Mississippi, when forces beyond its control were gradually dismantling the state’s system of legalized segregation.

Women of Color Organize for Access and Accountability in Photojournalism

The Authority Collective, whose members are women, transgender or nonbinary photographers, is building a supportive community while challenging industry leaders’ thinking about diversity and representation.

From Harlem to Johannesburg, Photographing the Famous and the Unknown With Dignity and Respect

For over fifty years and spanning several continents, Ozier Muhammad photographed celebrities, disasters and everyday people.

From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter: Honoring Black Mothers Who Lost Their Sons

The making of Sheila Pree Bright’s photo-mural of black women who had lost their sons gave a group of mothers a chance to tell their stories.

African Migrants Treated as Royalty in Three Kings Celebration in Spain

After being rescued from a dinghy off the Libyan coast, a group of African migrants was unexpectedly welcomed by the Spanish city of Reus and brought in as part of the town’s annual parade.

Reconciling Heritage and Hope Between Chicago and Mexico

A son of immigrant parents balances a desire to embrace his cultural roots with the better life his parents sacrificed to give him.

Helen Levitt’s Street Photos Blend the Poetic With the Political

Examining the overlooked work of a photographer whose images brought awareness to social issues.

A Blind 78-Year-Old Magician Finds a New Stage: New York’s Subways

After decades of performing on television in Ecuador, renowned magician Olmedo Renteria — aka Olmedini El Mago — showcases his talents to audiences commuting on the city’s subways.

Intimate Photos of Community and Resilience in New York’s Chinatown in the 1980s

As waves of immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China arrived in Lower Manhattan, Bud Glick documented Chinatown and provided much needed detail and context for a community often reduced to clichés.

A Mother and Daughter’s Unlikely Journey as Migrant Workers

Xyza Bacani and her mother were migrant domestic workers who left their home in the Philippines for Hong Kong. She photographed her mother’s path and the effect it had on their family.

13 Stories That Captured Photography in 2018

Dawoud Bey: 40 Years of Photos Affirming the ‘Lives of Ordinary Black People’

A new retrospective book “Seeing Deeply” reveals his decades-long exploration of community, memory and photography.

Creating a Community of Latin American Women Photographers

For four years, the online platform Foto Féminas has brought together a virtual community of experienced and emerging photographers.

Passion, Romance and Yearning: Photos of People Kissing

From simple pecks to full-on makeout sessions, a new compilation of photographs reveals how couples have kissed in front of the camera since the late-Victorian era.

A Spanish Photographer’s 42-Year-Long Mission to Save His Village’s Memories

Old ways of life are disappearing from Cespedosa de Tormes in western Spain, but Juan Manuel Castro Prieto wants to preserve the threads that join him to his ancestral village.

An Intimate Look at Leonard Bernstein

A collection of photographs of Mr. Bernstein, made by some of the most famous photographers of the 20th century, capture the American classical music maestro on and off the stage.

Living Large in the Limo, if Only for a Night

During her short-lived career as a limousine driver in the 1980s, Kathy Shorr captured her passengers’ celebrations in New York.

In Ethiopia, Visual Storytelling From a Deeper Perspective

Addis Foto Fest, founded by photographer Aida Muluneh, aims to give photographers from Africa a platform to capture the cultural complexities and diverse histories of the countries they call home.

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Zanele Muholi: Paying Homage to the History of Black Women

Through self-portraits, Zanele Muholi reimagines black identity and challenges the oppressive standards of beauty that often ignore people of color.

Unraveling the Mysteries of Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’

The history behind Ms. Lange’s photograph of Florence Owens Thompson has intrigued academics and photographers for decades. But a new book sheds fresh light on the portrait’s little-explored details.

The Photos That Lifted Up the Black Is Beautiful Movement

For over 50 years, the photographer Kwame Brathwaite captured African-American beauty and fashion, giving visual power to black power.

Examining Arnold Newman's Environmental Portraits

When taking portraits, Arnold Newman was less interested in the details of his subject’s surroundings than with the symbols he could create with them.

Illuminating Black Joy, Black Love and Resistance in Harlem

Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes celebrated the art of living through difficult times in “The Sweet Flypaper of Life.”

Capturing the Complexities of the Modern South, in Photographs

A new exhibition challenges the perceived identity of the American South, at a time when the definition of regionalism itself is in flux.

The Holocaust’s Paradox of Good and Evil, in Photographs

In her dark and evocative images, Judy Glickman Lauder explores the contrast between the reality of hate, the possibility of defeating it and photography’s role in spurring change.

How Photography Has Shaped Perceptions of African Women

“Aunty!,” an exhibit curated by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and Catherine E. McKinley, reveals photography’s role as a tool or weapon when investigating identity and empowerment.

Shahidul Alam: Fiercely Devoted to the Truth

As fidelity to facts leads to hardships, the Bangladeshi photographer’s incarceration demonstrates how a government restricts expression and criticism.

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Random Moments, Petty Lies and Quiet Pleasures

In “Taradiddle,” Charles Traub’s photographs reveal how life plays tricks on us all.

One Family’s Story of Deportation to Mexico

After Lourdes Salazar Bautista was deported to Mexico, Rachel Woolf captured a family trying to make sense of a life torn between two countries.

A Daughter Documents a Giant of Salsa and Latin Jazz

Rhynna Santos has been documenting the life of her father, a living link to the history of salsa and Latin jazz, musical forms that flourished in New York’s cultural hothouse.

Living Beneath the Ground in an Australian Desert

For about a century, residents of Coober Pedy have escaped the searing heat by building their homes underground. Tamara Merino captured life beneath the earth.

Lynsey Addario: An Unexpected Retrospective

20 years of photographs of conflict and women’s issue are collected in her new book “Of Love and War”

These Women Are Saving Lives, One Pregnancy at a Time

Valeria Scrilatti traveled to three African nations to explore the risks pregnancy poses for soon-to-be mothers, and the women who are working to help them.

Documenting the Rise of White Nationalism

Mark Peterson was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Grant for his work chronicling the rise of white nationalism in the United States.

Capturing the Struggle for Racial Equality, Past and Present

Sheila Pree Bright chronicles the longstanding and continuing legacy of black activism in her new book, “#1960Now.”

Meet the Young Female Photographers Who Documented 18-Year-Old Girls

The New York Times asked 22 young women to take photos for a project exploring daily life for girls around the world who are becoming adults this year.

Looking at Protestant Loyalist Life in Post-Conflict Belfast

Years after the Good Friday peace accords, Mariusz Smiejek took his camera on both sides of the walls that divide Protestants and Catholics in Belfast, gradually focusing on Protestant Loyalists.

A Marriage of Two Trees: an Unusual Wedding in a Small Italian Town

Gianluca De Bartolo traveled to a mountain village in southern Italy to document how the town celebrates its patron saint with an arboreal wedding.

The Photo Book as Art Object

For Dayanita Singh, photography is inseparable from its presentation, and she has spent years experimenting with unusual photo book formats to display her work.

40 Years of Hip-Hop Photos

Decades after photographers captured the hip-hop scene that emerged in the South Bronx, contact sheets offer a valuable peek into how artists on both sides of the camera worked.

Solemn Photographs of Clerical Sex Abuse Survivors

Tomaso Clavarino, a documentary photographer who had been following the Catholic abuse crisis for a few years, was struck by how survivors had been relegated to invisibility.

How Gordon Parks Became Gordon Parks

A new book examines Gordon Parks’s transformation over the formative decade before his time as the first black staff photographer at Life magazine.

Refugees and Migrants Tell Their Own Stories Through Photographs

The 25th annual exhibition by the Open Society Documentary Photography Project elevates the voices of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers.

The Veteranas of Chicana Youth Culture in Los Angeles

Guadalupe Rosales started an Instagram account cataloging the Latina youth scene in Southern California in the ’80s and ’90s.

Remote Russians Recycle Rocket Wreckage

Space junk from rockets launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia ends up in the remote Mezensky District, where residents repurpose it for hunting sleds, tools and boats.

58 Jazz Giants in One Immortal Image

In 1958, these jazz soloists heeded a highly un-jazzlike 10 a.m. call to a stoop in Harlem for a photograph celebrating the music’s collective moment.

Dreamlike Photos Reveal the Spiritual and the Comic at Algerian Festivals

Fethi Sahraoui shot seasonal festivals that bring an annual burst of celebration and amusement to sleepy Algerian villages.

They Body-Shamed Her Online. Then This Photographer Struck Back.

Haley Morris-Cafiero saved more than 1,000 negative comments directed toward her and, choosing 30 from various backgrounds, photographed herself costumed like her cyberbullies.

He Photographed What Hurricane Maria ‘Couldn’t Take Away’ From His Family

Jose Alvarado Jr. set out to capture quiet moments that are rooted in his family’s experiences yet speak to those of countless others.

Challenging Visual Stereotypes of Masculinity

The third PhotoVogue Festival aims to promote diversity and inclusiveness in all forms.

Ruby Washington: A Quiet Trailblazer in Photojournalism

Ms. Washington, the first African-American female staff photographer for The New York Times, knew how to keep her cool even in tense situations.

12 Emerging Photographers You Should Know

Projects from these up-and-coming photographers are being displayed on four-foot wooden cubes at this year’s Photoville beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.

Photographing the White South in the Turbulence of the 1960s

Doy Gorton, a son of the Mississippi Delta who joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, returned to Mississippi to embark on a project photographing his fellow white Southerners.

Highlighting Freedom, Resilience and Diversity at Photoville in Brooklyn

Photoville, the free photo festival that takes place under the Brooklyn Bridge, is now in its seventh year. In some 90 exhibits and outdoor installations featuring 600 artists, the festival is focusing on themes of gender, social and ethnic diversity, resilience, freedom of speech, and immigration.

Photographing Places Blessed by Nature and Contested by Man

Sebastian Villegas trekked over 120 miles by boat, mule and foot through mountain grasslands and muddy jungles to photograph the lives of people who had been cut off from the rest of Colombia for years.

Gordon Parks on Poverty, the ‘Most Savage of Human Afflictions’

Mr. Parks realized the power of empathy to help people understand poverty. In this 1961 photo essay, he took readers inside the lives of a Brazilian boy, Flavio da Silva, and his family, who lived in a favela in the hills outside Rio de Janeiro.

Chronicling the Virtuosity and Struggles of 1970s Soul and Funk Musicians

Bruce W. Talamon photographed some of music’s brightest stars for a decade. He considers himself “a visual caretaker of black folks’ history.”

Funerals, Skirmishes and Protests: Photographing Ireland in the Time of Bobby Sands

The French photojournalist Yan Morvan covered Northern Ireland in 1981 when Bobby Sands, a member of the I.R.A., died of a hunger strike. Mr. Morvan’s images are on exhibit at the Visa Pour l’Image festival in Perpignan, France, this week.

Photographing an Indelicate but Deadly Subject

Andrea Bruce captured the hardships and hazards of living with open defecation, which affects nearly one billion people.

Photographs That Humanize the Immigration Debate

John Moore, a staff photographer for Getty Images, has perhaps the most comprehensive body of work of any news photographer covering immigration. His images are being highlighted at a festival in France.

The Quiet Heroism of Arthur Ashe

John G. Zimmerman's photos of Arthur Ashe, the first black man to win a singles title at the United States Open, represented the athlete as he lived: a complex and self-possessed man in the midst of a life-altering event.

Striving for Justice and Equality With a Camera on New York's Streets

For decades, Builder Levy photographed protests and social issues, as well as the neighborhoods where he taught in New York, to counter media depictions he saw as problematic.

Photographing a Fast-Moving New York, Slowly

Lugging her cumbersome camera around mid-20th century New York, Evelyn Hofer captured a rapidly changing city, slowly, sensitively and methodically.

Shahidul Alam: A Singular Voice in Photography for Dignity and Human Rights

Over three decades, the photographer has covered major events, natural disasters and the struggle against governmental abuses. Now he is in jail in Bangladesh.

How to Have Bullfights in California? Use Velcro.

Every year in the Central Valley, Portuguese-Americans bring bullfighters from overseas and put on huge festivals — but shed no blood.

Following a Refugee Family's Long Journey to U.S. Citizenship

Bhutan’s expulsion of more than 100,000 people in 1992 forced many of them to live in camps in Nepal. Viviane Dalles photographed one family as they relocated to Texas.

Finding Brotherhood in the Boxing Ring

Larry Fink’s photos of sweat-stained boxing rings around America revealed intimate moments between fighters, referees and trainers.

A Portrait of an Egyptian Neighborhood Breathing Toxic Dust

A photo essay by Mohamed Mahdy shows what it’s like when your next-door neighbor is a cement factory that belches toxic dust.

Revealing the Lives of Black Fathers

Robyn Price Pierre looked to her family, classmates and friends to create personal photos exploring black fatherhood.

The Radical Empathy of Dan Weiner

His photographs of mid-20th-century New Yorkers capture a moment in the city, but more than that, they preserve the people who lived those moments.

Celebrating Girlhood and Feminine Identity

Melissa Ann Pinney’s project exploring female identity spans three decades and presents women and girls as subjects in their own right, not as accessories in the lives of men.

Recovering Lost Photos of Life Before the Chernobyl Disaster

Maxim Dondyuk is preserving evidence of people’s lives in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, before the nuclear explosion turned their communities into ghost towns.

From Duke Ellington to Public Enemy: Images of Hip-Hop and Its Cultural Roots

An exhibition at a Smithsonian Museum draws the connections between hip-hop and previous generations of African-American musicians and activists.

Capturing the Beauty of Everyday Life in the Bronx

For two decades, students of the International Center of Photography at the Point have learned analog photography and documented their community.

Beauty and Bleakness: The Efforts to Conserve Coral Reefs

As coral ecosystems face worldwide decline, Alexis Rosenfeld and Alexie Valois were set on chronicling their majesty and their plight — as well as efforts to restore them.

Photographing His Own Cancer Treatment: ‘A Hell I Wasn't Ready For’

Mark Richards chronicled his battle with cancer, visualizing the agony he endured.

In Brazil’s Favelas, Caught Between Police and Gangsters

In his book “46750,” João Pina enters into conversation that reveals, but doesn’t sensationalize, life in the favelas of one of Brazil’s largest cities.

Overlooked Stories From Latin American Photographers

For its Latin American Foto Festival, the Bronx Documentary Center is again sharing photography with the community it calls home.

Escaping to Freedom, in the Shadows of the Night

A new series by the photographer Dawoud Bey summons a time in African-American history when the journey to freedom was made largely under cover of night.

Susan Meiselas: Breaching Boundaries in Photography

Ms. Meiselas, a Magnum photographer since 1976, is the subject of a new book, “Susan Meiselas: Mediations,” which examines her long career and diverse body of work.

Meet the Personalities Behind These German Office Plants

To Frederik Busch, a German photographer, these plants have no less personality than their human counterparts.

This Working Class Photographer Documented Her Community in Industrial England

Informed by her social conscience and working-class roots, Tish Murtha highlighted an industrial area of England near Newcastle.

The Beat Generation in Its Natural Habitat

Burt Glinn shot the Beats in New York’s jazz clubs, coffee shops and Village bars.

The Transformative Nature of the Photographs of Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus’s portfolio “A Box of Ten Photographs” was pivotal in the acceptance of photography by the art world. A book published by Aperture and the Smithsonian American Art Museum examines the portfolio and its impact.

Photographing Ordinary Life in Passing

LeRoy W. Henderson Jr. has traveled up and down the East Coast, stopping alongside rural roads in his native Virginia, at rallies on the National Mall and on bustling New York City street corners.

Photographing Syrians Who Share an Uncertain Future

Diego Ibarra Sánchez hopes his project, “Limbo: Lives in Exile,” will convey the unceasing urgency of the Syrian refugee crisis.

Photographing (and Singing) at a Brooklyn Karaoke Bar

The photo series “Humans Against Music” chronicles the weekly, low-tech karaoke sessions at Freddy’s Bar and Backroom in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

These 1970s Pageants Celebrated Black Women's Beauty

For some women in West London’s Afro-Caribbean communities, beauty pageants nurtured racial pride and self-expression.

Revisiting the Images of Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Work Magazine

Two photographers have spent years compiling a complete set of Camera Work, Alfred Stieglitz’s groundbreaking publication that helped shepherd photography into the art world.

Water Sprites, Fairies and Elves, Oh My

Bego Antón has spent five years traveling to Iceland to explore the world of mythical, folkloric creatures — and the people for whom they are real.

A Child of Immigrants Photographs the Life He Might Have Led

In “Going Back Home,” the British-Pakistani photographer Mahtab Hussain explores the life he could have had if his parents never emigrated.

Chronicling the Lives of Women Along the Colombian-Venezuelan Border

Juanita Escobar, one of this year’s Magnum Foundation Fund grantees, reveals the secrets of a transforming border town.

Celebrating the Grace of Black Women

With its new exhibit, “Black Women: Power and Grace,” the African-American photography collective Kamoinge presents a mosaic of identity, history and little-seen stories.

Where Everybody Knows Your Nombre

Joana Toro delves into the last of New York’s Puerto Rican social clubs.

Capturing the Strength of Women Who Survived Acid Attacks in Colombia

In these acid attack survivors, Betty Zapata sees inspirational figures who are fighting back for their place in society.

Photographing a ‘Punk’ Priest in Rural Russia

When Ekaterina Solovieva traveled to a remote lake town in northern Russia, she encountered an Orthodox priest with a decidedly unorthodox manner.

Recovering Hidden History Along the Armenian-Turkish Border

Two female photographers — one Armenian, one Turkish — worked together to document life on both sides of the border, focusing on Armenians living in hiding.

50 Years After Their Mug Shots, Portraits of Mississippi’s Freedom Riders

The journalist and photographer Eric Etheridge provides visual and oral histories of the courageous men and women known as the Freedom Riders in the 1960s.

Bridging the Gap Between Mothers and Daughters in Iran

In her project “The Wall,” Mojgan Ghanbari sought to start a dialogue between Iranian mothers and daughters.

Puerto Rico’s Long Journey Out of Darkness

Todd Heisler, a New York Times staff photographer, discusses how people are surviving as the island waits for its electrical grid to be rebuilt.

In These Harlem Jazz Clubs, Musicians and Audience Became One

“You went for the scene,” said Gerald Cyrus, who spent the 1990s photographing Harlem’s jazz clubs and jam sessions. Then they went away.

Photographing the ‘Landscape of Forgiveness’ in Post-Apartheid South Africa

In her photographs of South Africa’s landscapes, Sara Terry sought sites of significance, pain and forgiveness in the country’s history.

Native American Photographers Unite to Challenge Inaccurate Narratives

The Natives Photograph organization has highlighted 21 photographers, and offers a database of indigenous photographers in North America.

Fearing Death, and Photographing the Rituals That Surround It

After the death of his parents, Chanho Park was left bereft. He started taking photographs and felt himself drawn to traditional Korean funerals and religious rites.

Sim Chi Yin, a Patient Photographer, Wins Chris Hondros Award

The freelance photographer based in Beijing is honored for her keen sense of the geographic locations, cultures and subjects she covers.

At Home in the Jungle, Everything Is ‘Alive and Has a Spirit’

The photographer Misha Vallejo has been documenting a people who live in the Ecuadorean Amazon, the Sarayaku Kichwa, for three years.

A 23-Year-Old Ugandan Photographer Documents Youth in Her Country

Esther Mbabazi followed three teenagers as they navigated life in Uganda.

Black Cops on Both Sides of the Badge

In “Black Outlined Blue,” Daniel Edwards, the son of two law enforcement officials, examined the difficulties and insights of being both black and a police officer.

Photography Pulitzers Awarded for Coverage of Charlottesville and Rohingya Refugee Crisis

Ryan M. Kelly received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for his image of a car driving through protesters in Charlottesville, Va.

Photos of Gynecological Tools From Centuries Past

Lindsey Beal has traveled to medical libraries for the past two years to document vintage gynecological and obstetric instruments.

The Power of Pictures: Viewing History Through America's Library

An exhibit featuring more than 440 images from the Library of Congress’ photographic archives is featured at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles.

World Press Photo of the Year: A Tale Told Twice

The award winners were announced today at the World Press Photo Festival in Amsterdam.

Portraits of Mestiza in Mexico, as They Wish to Be Seen

Citlali Fabián’s collaborative portraits of Oaxacan women and girls are both intimate and universal.

Brassai: The ‘Eye of Paris’

While in Paris, photography became Brassai's main language as he wandered through bars, ballrooms and occasionally brothels, sometimes giving direction to his subjects.

Who Was That Masked Man? A Wrestling Priest

Seila Montes has spent more than two years photographing the masked luchadores of Mexico.

The ‘Endless War’ of Land Mines in the Balkans

Large areas of Kosovo, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina remain plagued by mines and other live bombs two decades after the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

Dr. King’s Complex Relationship With the Camera

The most compelling photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were neither idealized nor simplistic, but endeavored to portray his complexity and humanity.

‘It Was Like My Disability Became a Gift’

After Nolan Ryan Trowe and Adhiambo Mitchell bonded over their shared disabilities, Mr. Trowe set out to photograph the busy life of his friend.

Documenting the Dynamic Black Community of 1940s Seattle

In the 1940s, Al Smith documented a heroic period for Seattle jazz in the integrated establishments of Jackson Street, where African-American performers and customers were embraced.

The Superfund Sites of Silicon Valley

When Federica Armstrong discovered that she lived a mile from one of Silicon Valley’s multiple toxic Superfund sites, she set out to photograph them.

Moments Big and Small in Vintage Photos

The Anonymous Project features an archive of vintage slides from all over the world.

Capturing Photos of Corporate Office Life in 1970s America

A photographer set out to portray the cookie-cutter culture of corporate America's bygone days.

Looking at the Paralympics With a New York Times Photographer

While most of the of journalists who covered the Winter Olympics went home once the games ended, Chang Lee remained to cover the Paralympics, the games for athletes with impairments.

A Photographer’s Search for Joy in Uncertain Times

New York City in 1975 was experiencing perhaps the worst moment in its history. The photographer Meryl Meisler loved it immediately.

Pictures From The Times to Make You Face ‘Hard Truths’

The work of five freelance photographers on assignment for The New York Times is on display now at an exhibition at Sotheby’s in London.

Beauty, Pride and Power in Photos by Lola Flash

A retrospective of Lola Flash’s 32-year career is at the Pen and Brush Gallery in Manhattan, showcasing work that delves into questions of identity, race and gender.

The Earliest Days of American Photography

A new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles looks at the complex — and sometimes even illicit — history of photography in the United States.

Finding Tenderness in Communities Affected by Manila’s Anti-Drug Killings

Hannah Reyes Morales photographed scenes of death in Manila during the anti-drug campaign. She later returned to those sites to capture the daily lives of residents living in the midst of violence.

These Are the Pictures of the Year From 2017

Adam Ferguson was named Photographer of the Year for the 75th Pictures of the Year International competition, for work on assignment for The Times

Indians Celebrating India at Houston FotoFest

This year’s FotoFest International, the first and longest-running worldwide photography biennial, focuses on work by artists of Indian origin.

A Glimpse Into the World of Lebanon’s 1 Percent

"Bubble Beirut” presents an up close and personal look at the lives of the city’s untouchables.

Coming of Age Amid Patriotic Training

Sarah Blesener documented 10 programs that teach patriotic values and military skills to American children and teenagers.

Incredibly Close (and Extremely Loud)

In David Rothenberg’s photos, the jetliners landing at La Guardia Airport are silent, imposing behemoths. For the Queens neighborhoods under the flight path, they are anything but silent.

A Times Photographer’s Journey Home to the Winter Olympics

Chang Lee, a staff photographer for The New York Times, recounts how he covers the drama, the spectacle and a unified Korean team at the Winter Olympics.

Which of These Images Should Be the World Press Photo of the Year?

World Press Photo has announced the six finalists for photo of the year.

An Iranian Photographer’s Unflinching Look at His Country’s Revolution

Kaveh Kazemi's images of the Iranian revolution and its aftermath reveal the country's transition from a different era, and a contrast with its social upheaval today.

An Elegy to India’s Vanishing Cinemas

Nandita Raman spent three years photographing the decline of India’s single-screen movie houses for her series “Cinema Play House.”

Seeking Humanity in a Prison Passion Play

“Prison Nation,” the latest issue of Aperture magazine, features work from more than a dozen photographers and writers.