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Photojournalism

Photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg Goes Inside the Human Body

Arts, Culture & Media

Portrait photographer and photojournalist Max Aguilera-Hellweg has documented the magnetic realm of the operating-room in his book, The Sacred Heart: An Atlas of the Body Seen Through Invasive Surgery, and the experience led him to change his life. Kurt Andersen talks with him about his extraordinary, beautiful, and sometimes disturbing images, and about the blurred […]

The Art of Photojournalism

Arts, Culture & Media

From the Streets of Haiti, a Real-Life Tarot Deck

Arts, Culture & Media
Art Wolfe penguins

40 years of documenting Earth’s beauty

Arts
A young refugee at the Atmeh refugee camp in Syria.

This picture will break your heart

Conflict
Wounded Palestinian Rawya abu Jom’a.

Heidi Levine’s war photos from Gaza keep a colleague’s memory alive

Media

When photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus was killed in April 2014 while reporting in Afghanistan, the journalism community was stunned by her loss. Now the International Women’s Media Foundation is carrying on her memory by honoring the work of photographer Heidi Levine with the first Anja Niedringhaus Award.

Youngsters surf the Internet near the ruined Darul Aman Palace, which was built in the 1930s. Only 5.5 percent of Afghan youths have access to the Internet, but technology played a role in connecting youth during last year's presidential elections.

See the surprising ‘new’ Afghanistan in these 18 photos

Arts

Indian photographer Aaquib Khan traveled to Kabul last year and found a country that defied his stereotype of a downtrodden and dangerous nation without hope. His photos from that trip help show the varied daily lives of Afghans — and the huge problems they still face.

Michel du Cille's haunting photographs from the Ebola front included this one of Esther Tokpah, 11, orphaned in Monrovia, Liberia

Remembering how photojournalist Michel du Cille framed the world

Media

Photojournalist Michel du Cille died Thursday in Liberia while on assignment for the Washingon Post. One editor at the Post called du Cille “one of the world’s great photographers.”

9-year-old Ahmad in Beirut 2014

Giving Syrian children their identities back, one portrait at a time

Conflict

Photographer Rania Matar went back to her hometown of Beirut to work on a project about teenagers. Then, on every corner, she stumbled into young Syrian refugees. They became subjects of her new series called “Invisible Children.”

Coffins of US military personnel are prepared to be offloaded at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware in this undated photo. From 1991 to 2009, the government did not permit photographing the return of servicemembers killed in action.

Graphic images of war are hard to stomach — but some say they’re necessary

Media

When news outlets decide to publish graphic photos of war and violence, they often face censorship, opposition or anger for doing so. In the wake of the release of ISIS beheading videos, one journalist argues that there is value in bearing witness to war, even its ugliest parts.