Sep 19 Photos: The morning after in Scotland By Nora Daly Scottish citizens awoke today -- if they ever went to bed at all -- to the news that their country will remain part of the United Kingdom. A record-breaking 85 percent of registered voters turned out at the polls Thursday… Continue reading
Sep 10 French photographer glances down on happy moments and finds a new perspective By Victoria Fleischer At over 6'4", French photographer Florian Beaudenon has to look down to see much of the world around him. While in the middle of a fashion shoot, the photographer was struck by his bird’s-eye view of his model, seated on… Continue reading
Aug 24 Photos: Inside one of the world’s busiest maternity wards By Brian Epstein The Jose Favella Hospital in Manila has one of the busiest maternity wards in the world, with an average of 60 births per day. The Philippines is grappling with a population boom, where in the past three decades the number… Continue reading
Aug 15 A look back at the week’s events in Ferguson in photos By News Desk Here are some of the defining images from Ferguson, Missouri, this week. Continue reading
Aug 14 Gallery: 100 years of the Panama Canal in 10 photos By Larisa Epatko Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal, the 48-mile passage linking the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. It helped move American troops to the Pacific theater during World War II and has facilitated trade between… Continue reading
Aug 08 When Mississippi schools wouldn’t integrate, Freedom Schools opened doors By April Brown, Mike Fritz In the summer of 1964, hundreds of out-of-state volunteers joined local activists in Mississippi to increase voter registration among disenfranchised African Americans in the state. Many of the volunteers worked in the dozens of newly created Freedom Schools. Herbert Randall,… Continue reading
Aug 06 Photo Essay: World War I remastered and in color By Travis Daub For the 100th anniversary of the "war to end all wars," a team at the Open University in the United Kingdom has been searching through photo archives around the world to find unique and significant images of the conflict. Continue reading
Jul 23 Photographer creates unique family portraits by asking strangers to touch By Victoria Fleischer If you're being approached by a photographer with a large, antique-looking camera, who is asking you to pose with a stranger, it's probably Richard Renaldi. The photographer traveled around the country for his project "Touching Strangers,” the book of which… Continue reading
Jul 17 Photo essay: Sex and drugs in an HIV-infected paradise By Jason Kane, Victoria Fleischer Malindi, Kenya: A vacation destination with something for everyone. Sitting on the crystal coast of east Africa, the resort town offers glass-bottomed boat cruises, authentic Italian pasta, sex-for-hire and dirt-cheap heroin. Continue reading
Jul 10 Mentally ill shackled and neglected in Africa’s crisis regions By Victoria Fleischer Robin Hammond had never considered the long-term mental health effects on the Africans whose stories of war, famine and conflict he had covered for 12 years as a documentary photographer. But on a 2011 reporting trip to Sudan, he witnessed… Continue reading