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Headless chicken bags Event Photographer of the Year 2026 title… "The photograph tells it all: it was a very, very hot day and I felt so bad for this poor young girl"

By Niall Hampton Published

News Marc James wins a hatful of trophies at the Event Photography Awards 2026, and a cash prize of US$1,350/£1,000/AU$1,900

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Man cleaning inside of empty wine vat looks up towards entrance of the vessel at the top of a ladder. A bucket hands via a rope from the entrance above.
“The light was extremely scarce and that was the greatest difficulty in getting the shot” – major wine photography contest winner explains the difficulty he had shooting his award-winning image

By Alan Palazon Published

News As the Louis Jadot Wine Photographer of the Year Award 2027 opens for entries, last year’s winner reveals how, while immersed in darkness inside an enormous vat, he captured his commended image

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In a traditional Madrid bar, a man in a Spanish flag cape and a woman in a yellow and pink dress, both with red and yellow face paint, cheer ecstatically with beers raised as an older man smiles
Some of Magnum's finest photographers have been spending summer in the pub, and their pictures show exactly why documentary photography earns its salt

By Tom May Published

Magnum members visited bars across 11 countries for Heineken, and their photographs say more than a standard advertising image ever could

Street Photography
A boyfriend served up for breakfast and a forest floor burning in the shape of a deer: this new exhibition shows just how much thought goes into a staged photograph

By Tom May Published

On show These two photographers' pictures couldn't look more different, but they share one vital ingredient.

On show
A Ghana cukooshrike in the rain forest canopy
This colorful, lost bird species hasn’t been seen in 13 years. A photographer just took the “best photos ever taken of this bird” – and the first-ever video

By Hillary K. Grigonis Last updated

BIRDS Researchers working in a West African rainforest captured photos of a vulnerable bird species for the first time since 2013

BIRDS
A critically endangered King Island Scrubtit photographed at Boulder Wildlife Sanctuary, a 200-hectare wildlife refuge on Tasmania’s King Island
“I was confident I’d photographed the right species but given how rare they are, I also had a bit of doubt.” Photographer captures one of Australia’s rarest birds with a last-gen full-frame camera

By Mike Harris Published

News Only 100 King Island scrubtits are thought to exist. Brad Leue set off with the audacious plan to find and photograph one in only a week

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Crab protecting embryos.
Armed with just a compact camera, housing, and a light, a diver returned to the same spot multiple times. Finally, a crab emerged in a “rare moment of maternal care,” snagging major honors

By Alan Palazon Published

OCEAN Italian photographer Andrea Michelutti captured the intimate scene of a harlequin crab tending to her cluster of embryos, earning honors at the 2026 Ocean Photographer of the Year Awards

OCEAN
Rare black color red fox portrait in woodland
Michigan confirms unusual fox photo is “an incredibly rare sight” – and could be the only one like it in the region

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

WILDLIFE The Michigan DNR recently confirmed that a photo of an unusually colored fox is a rare melanistic gray fox

WILDLIFE
Pink flamingo sitting on lap of man driving car.
Siena Awards Photo Festival 2026: war, human rights and humanity's relationship with nature explored as major photojournalists take stage

By Alan Palazon Published

News The Italian city of Siena once again transforms into a major contemporary photography festival with leading photojournalists including Cinzia Canneri, Pierpaolo Mittica and Jasper Doest exhibiting

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A row of Afghan refugee women in brightly coloured headscarves, most with their faces veiled, stand against a grey concrete wall holding hairdryers triumphantly above their heads, cables dangling.
Why has a photo of women holding hairdryers been awarded Global Peace Image of the Year?

By Tom May Published

Italian photojournalist Silvia Alessi found a highly original way to tell the story of oppression in Afghanistan

Photojournalism
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