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Colorful hummingbird hovering among green flowering plants
"I searched for the Ruby-topaz Hummingbird for years," says 14-year-old award-winning photographer – until his big day came. He "focused on it just in time"

By Kim Bunermann Last updated

UPDATE Young wildlife photographer honored with colorful split-second image of hummingbird in major photography competition, captured with Canon and Sigma gear

UPDATE
Eagle hunter on horseback with golden eagle in Mongolia at night
Astrophotography in October 2026: last call for shots the Milky Way as we welcome longer nights and see Saturn at its best

By Jamie Carter Published

Astro Everything you need to know about what’s worth photographing in the night skies over the coming month

Astro
Portraits of Kae Tempest and Sunil Gupta dressed in white against a white background
His photographs are famed for giant sets and fairytale fantasies, so why is Tim Walker shooting portraits on plain white backgrounds?

By Tom May Published

News Britain's master of photographic fantasy is going back to basics in a 250-portrait London show

News
Black and white photo of David Bowie leaning out of a car window at night, pointing angrily at the camera with his teeth bared.
Punched by Bowie, thumped by Jagger and swatted with a newspaper by Dylan: a new book reveals what it really took to get the shot as a paparazzo, long before autofocus did the hard work

By Tom May Published

Forget autofocus tracking and 30fps bursts: this veteran tabloid photographer's new book recalls a time when fieldcraft, nerve and legwork mattered more

Photojournalism
Black-and-white image of a duck swimming at night, with bright lights along the waterline casting long vertical reflections
Magical Nordic bird photos win a 23-year-old photographer a major prize for the second year in a row

By Kim Bunermann Published

NEWS Images of birds magically enveloped in fog and atmospheric light win top wildlife photography competition – and the young photographer also took the title last year

NEWS
The powerful images of 20th-century American photographer Gordon Parks have been analyzed endlessly, but now it's the turn of the people he caught with his camera to have their say

By Tom May Published

News Voices in the Mirror pairs his best-known images with new reflections from the people and families he captured

News
Photography festivals work better with a theme, and Bristol has built an entire biennial around this single unsettling idea

By Tom May Published

Time Machine brings multiple exhibitions to south-west England this October, all built around photography's strange relationship with time, history and memory

Galleries and Exhibitions
Swirling plasma in Sun's surface.
“After several attempts, a perfect opportunity eventually arose,” says award-winning astrophotographer on his super-detailed shot of Sun’s surface

By Alan Palazon Published

News Portuguese astrophotographer Miguel Claro used a high-powered telescope and camera to capture a close-up frame of writhing plasma on the Sun’s photosphere

News
At the 1986 Wackersdorf anti-nuclear protest, a shirtless man raises his arm mid-shout as a couple embrace beside him, a dark storm-clouded sky filling the background.
German photographer Wolfgang Zurborn spent lockdown scanning his pictures of crowds, and learned something profound about finding order inside chaos

By Tom May Published

BOOKS Crowds is a new book gathering together four decades of dense, color-saturated street photography

BOOKS
“This family was in a bunker. When the Americans threw a grenade in a bunker, they would shout ‘fire in thehole!’ before there was an enormous explosion. I don’t know how these people got out alive. I was just tryingto show how you’d feel if that was your family—so badly shocked and threatened at the end of it all”
“I want my picture to hurt you.” Now 90, renowned Vietnam War photographer Don McCullin shares why he wants to create photos to lose sleep over – and why he hates his most famous photograph

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

BOOKS Ahead of his final book – and 91st birthday – Don McCullin recounts stories of working as a war photographer through decades of global conflict

BOOKS
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