Photography

How AI is helping to recreate childhood memories

May 21, 2024Arts, Culture & Media

What do you do with a cherished memory that has no record — not even a photo or a video? This Spanish company, Domestic Data Streamers, might help. They’ve harnessed artificial intelligence to turn fading recollections into visual or “synthetic” memories. The end product isn’t quite a photo — or art. But it’s helping people reconnect with their pasts.

The exterior of the newly opened Dikan Center for photography in Accra, Ghana.

The new Dikan Center in Ghana displays a collection of photography from across Africa

December 21, 2022Arts, Culture & Media

A ground-dwelling roadrunner bird is shown staring up at the US-Mexico border wall lined with razor wire.

Award-winning photograph illustrates the US-Mexico border wall threat to biodiversity

September 3, 2021Arts, Culture & Media

Escorts surround this patient outside of Metropolitan Medical Associates in Englewood, New Jersey.

When health care comes with harassment: Photographing abortion clinic protests

January 24, 2018Culture

40 years of documenting Earth’s beauty

November 17, 2017Arts

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Teju Cole was born in the United States and raised in Nigeria.

Nigerian-American author Teju Cole wants us to rethink what it means to travel

June 15, 2017Books

Cole uses text and photography to find connections that might easily be overlooked in 25 locales around the world.

Here’s the image that was voted 2016’s best news photo

February 13, 2017Culture

Not everyone thinks the controversial and chilling photo should receive the award.

Denise, Yefri, & Angie from "Virgenes de la Puerta."

These photos show the courage and tragedy of LGBTQ life in Peru

December 8, 2016Arts

Artists Andrew Mroczek and Juan Barboza-Guba want to show the beauty of transgender women in Peru — and to highlight hate crimes against them and other LGBTQ people there.

Teju Cole considers why racism is not someone calling him the ‘N’ word

August 23, 2016Arts

Nigerian American writer Teju Cole’s new collection of essays is all about the intersection of tough topics — politics, art, race and place.Nigerian American writer Teju Cole’s new collection of essays is all about the intersection of tough topics — politics, art, race and place.

Photos: How Polaroids helped kids in project housing tell their stories for 50 years

February 10, 2016Culture

Thanks to Polaroid and a basement arts center, the kids of Newtowne Court in Cambridge, Mass., have been building a photographic monument to their neighborhood since the 1960s.

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