The photographer who captured Black San Francisco in the 1960s: ‘We wouldn’t have seen it without him’ | Photography

A man looks at a camera that he is holding.

David Johnson saved a portrait he took as a teen of his younger brother and a relative while they were growing up in segregated Florida in the 1940s. Johnson, who was the only person who […]

Paul McCartney: Photographs 1963-64 review – watching the world change, almost overnight | Photography

Jane Asher: ‘I moved in with Jane Asher at the end of the year. I often took her portrait while we were together’

First they were ours, for a brief and precious moment. Then, suddenly, they belonged to the world. Eyes of the Storm, the exhibition of Paul McCartney’s photographs at London’s newly reopened National Portrait Gallery, depicts […]

‘AI isn’t a threat’ – Boris Eldagsen, whose fake photo duped the Sony judges, hits back | Photography

‘I love photography, I love generating images’ … Eldagsen.

Since 52-year-old German artist Boris Eldagsen went public with the fact that he won a Sony world photography award with an AI-generated image, relations between him and the award body have soured. Sony have issued […]

The end of Boston’s dirty, dangerous Orange Line – Jack Lueders-Booth’s best photograph | Photography

Jack Lueders-Booth.

The Orange Line is part of the public transport system in Boston. It opened in 1901. Most of it was underground but its last four miles, in the south-west of the city, came out in […]

A Welsh Elvis impersonator in Memphis: Clémentine Schneidermann’s best photograph | Photography

Clémentine Schneidermann portrait

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 […]

Nature Calls: Behold the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Finalists

Nature Calls: Behold the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Finalists

Per the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards’ website, the competition was founded by nature photographer Paul Joynson-Hicks in 2015 when he had the idea to promote some of the goofiest photographs he had in his portfolio […]

Big dipper, boxing and bikers in LA: Wembley to Soweto initiative 2022 – photo essay | Photography

High-ride – the Santa Monica rollercoaster at the top of its trajectory

Over the last 12 years, an extraordinary grassroots movement has been working alongside global sporting events such as the football, cricket and rugby union World Cups, the English Premier League and the Olympic Games. Young […]

Sebastião Salgado: ‘I was transformed into an environmentalist’ | Photography

Sebastião Salgado

Over the course of 50 years, the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has traveled to more than 120 countries, creating lasting images of events like the Kuwait oil fires and the Rwandan genocide, as well as […]

Artist Rene Matić: ‘This story is about what, if anything, saves us’ | Photography

Rene Matić’s ‘Destination/Departure’, 2020

Two years ago, the young artist Rene Matić had the far-right slogan “Born British Die British” tattooed on their back. The words unfurl in a delicate font across their rippling shoulders in the elegiac black-and-white […]

‘You had to be quick!’: Henry Horenstein on his breathtaking Speedway pics | Photography

Henry Horenstein - Speedway 1972

Henry Horenstein was a student at the University of Chicago in the 1960s when he discovered the work of the leftwing English historian EP Thompson. Soon afterwards, on the advice of his tutor, he journeyed […]