Lagos Is a Vortex of Energy

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In a recent book, “Èkó,” the photographer Ollie Babajide Tikare captures the messiness and hope of the Nigerian city.

The People Reviving Ancient Salmon Traps—and the Photographer Documenting Them

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This river-based method could preserve both salmon populations and local livelihoods

The Art of Waiting

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Samuel Beckett believed that failure was an essential part of an artist’s work and that embracing it was crucial for any creative person to find meaning in the process itself. His most famous expression of this philosophy appears in…

The Futility of Simulating Nature

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In “The Anthropocene Illusion,” the photographer Zed Nelson captures how the natural world has been reproduced, reshuffled, and repackaged, sold to visitors in the form of spectacle.

Behind the scenes of a close crocodile encounter

JH: I didn’t feel threatened. For several days I’d watched these crocodiles wander about, investigate things in the mangroves, chase fish in circles for fun, and sleep within view of us. Many of them swam with snorkelers on a daily basis.

In the Shipyards of San Francisco

JSTOR Daily

In the spring of 1943, the United States was at work. It had been sixteen months since Japan’s attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor drew the country into conflicts in Europe and Asia, but the troops now stationed in those far-away places were only part of the massive war effort.

Ghosts on the Glacier

Fifty years ago, eight Americans set off for South America to climb Aconcagua, one of the world’s mightiest mountains. Things quickly went wrong. Two climbers died. Their bodies were left behind.

A.I. Is the Future of Photography. Does That Mean Photography Is Dead?

John Szarkowski, the legendary former curator of the Museum of Modern Art, once described photography as “the act of pointing.

These photos are shedding new light on how fireflies interact with the world

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Photographer Pete Mauney heads out for work each night, flashlight in hand, wearing highway safety gear. His oversized, orange T-shirt and its strip of reflectors match the traffic cones piled in the trunk of his car.

Cold, remote and short of women: A portrait of life on the Faroe Islands

Written by In her striking images of the Faroe Islands, a remote archipelago between Iceland and her native Norway, photographer Andrea Gjestvang depicts islanders and livelihoods that are as tough and unforgiving as the windswept landscape.Fishing trawlers travel through frigid seas.

A Big-Wave Photographer Faces Frigid Water, Sharks and Currents to Get the Shot

When a run of massive winter swell is forecast at Mavericks, the iconic big-wave surf break 25 miles south of San Francisco, Sachi Cunningham is typically up in the pre-dawn darkness, pulling on her wet suit and readying her camera gear.

Legendary Hawaii surf photographer captures his own epic final moments

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HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaii is mourning the loss of an iconic local surf photographer. Just weeks after filming water shots at the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational Larry Haynes unexpectedly passed away after a surfing session on Thursday, Feb. 9.

As $1.6 Million in Rare Photos Vanished, the Excuses Piled Up

As J. Ross Baughman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, prepared to downsize into a new apartment in 2020, he realized he would not have the wall space for his entire collection, which included prints by marquee names like Diane Arbus and Richard Avedon.

The World’s Largest Tree Is Ready for Its Close-Up

Smithsonian Magazine

All it takes is one gust of wind to wake up Pando. As the sleeping giant stirred to life, I stopped in my tracks, barely a quarter mile into my summer afternoon hike, watching as its leaf-speckled branches swing back and forth with each passing breeze.

Forceful Waves Rip Across Lake Erie in Tempestuous Photos by Trevor Pottelberg

Colossal

When fall and winter storms send turbulent waves across Lake Erie, Canadian photographer Trevor Pottelberg documents the volatile eruptions that burst from the water’s surface.

The Mysteries of a “Knit Club” in Small-Town Mississippi

The New Yorker

Just nine photographs from Carolyn Drake’s “Knit Club” (TBW Books) are on the wall at the Yancey Richardson Gallery, so they can only hint at that book’s peculiar power.

Introducing “Archives Unbound”

JSTOR Daily

Students ask me the most fascinating questions, and I don’t know how to answer most of them. As an archivist in charge of digital collections, I am regularly invited to classes to speak with students about resources I’ve built to enhance digital discovery.

The Kept and the Killed

Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. Erica X Eisen examines the history behind this hole-punched archive and the unknowable void at its center.