National Geographic is known for high-quality photography in both print and digital stories. To celebrate that, each year we publish a special issue to showcase some of the stunning images our photographers have taken around the globe. This year, 132 photographers visited 60 countries and submitted 2,238,899 images to document […]
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A Wigan Elvis impersonator in Memphis: Clémentine Schneidermann’s best photograph | Photography
I have come to know the boy and his mum in this picture quite well. I was studying documentary photography at the University of South Wales in 2013 when I came across the annual Elvis festival in the small seaside town of Porthcawl. I went back the next five years […]
Tales from my grandfather: Hoa Huynh’s Vietnam – photo essay | Photography
Grandparents are a mystery and, when you layer on barriers of culture and language, can we ever say we know who they really were? Hoa Huynh – my yeye, or grandad – was born in 1928 in a small town in the central highlands of the then French colony of […]
Shall I throw away my camera? These images are NOT photographs
The discussion above the benefit of real images versus AI-produced photographs isn’t really a new one. Nevertheless, what I will not imagine most people today comprehend is that AI picture generators usually are not confined to esoteric packages and clever software nestled in the depths of the world-wide-web the images […]
‘It was like an apocalyptic movie’: 20 climate photographs that changed the world | Climate crisis
An iceberg threatens a village in Greenland, July 2018, Magnus Kristensen For a week in July 2018, a giant 100m-tall iceberg loomed over a tiny village on the west coast of Greenland. Villagers were evacuated, and the world watched in suspense: if a chunk of the 10m-tonne iceberg had broken […]
Fujifilm’s new X-T5 pivots back to photography
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The new X-T5 mirrorless camera is a bit of an apology letter from Fujifilm to its fans, who disliked the video-focused features creeping into their favorite photo camera line. Where the X-T4 got a little bloated in size and featured a flip-out screen better equipped for video, the new X-T5 […]