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A view of workers at Ground Zero shot through the shattered window of an apartment building on September 13, 2001
“I went from being a photojournalist to just another New Yorker running for their lives." A New Yorker for only two months, he recorded the devastation of 9/11 with a 3.1MP camera

By Hillary K. Grigonis Last updated

9/11 Mario Tama had only been a photojournalist with Getty for two months when he photographed the World Trade Center on 9/11. This is his story

9/11
The south tower of the World Trade Center, left, begins to collapse in New York Tuesday Sept. 11. 2001
“I saw the tower was about to collapse. I took one photo. Then someone shouted, ‘Run!’” In shock, covered in dust, and bleeding, she captured some of the most memorable 9/11 photos

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

9/11 Gulnara Samoilova was an Associated Press photo editor living just four blocks from the World Trade Center on 9/11. This is her story

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A polar bear peers through a seal's breathing hole in Arctic ice, its face framed by ice, water and rising bubbles as seen from below the surface.
This haunting photo shows what a seal would see in their last moments – just before the polar bear launches a deadly attack

By Tom May Published

Award winner Meet the polar bear who found a hidden camera under Arctic ice, looked it dead in the eye, then fell asleep above it for nine hours

Award winner
Street portraits from the book Street Photography Africa
This rule-breaking book about African street photography splices catwalk-ready fashion shots in with candid documentary, and it's hard to tell where one ends and one begins

By Tom May Published

News A new release from Thames & Hudson challenges our assumptions about what street photography actually is

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Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the Evening News telling of the Titanic maritime disaster, outside Oceanic House, the London offices of the Titanic’s owner, the White Star Line, in Cockspur Street, London, 16th April 1912. Six years later Parfett died whilst serving in France during World War I. He was killed in a German bombardment on 29th October 1918, 13 days before the end of the War. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The most famous face of the Titanic disaster belongs to a newsboy nobody thought to name – taken by a photographer nobody credited, either

By Tom May Published

famous photos The fame of Ned Parfett's photo has outlived him by over a century

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Waterfall
You can't shoot long-exposure waterfalls in bright daylight, unless you do this...

By Wendy Evans Published

For milky, slo-mo images of waterfalls you need to use the right combination of filters

Landscape Photography
Armored sea robin walks along seafloor.
Researchers capture footage of fish “moonwalking” on South China Sea floor

By Alan Palazon Published

News Scientists used underwater vehicles to record a trio of armored sea robins using their specialized, stiffened fin rays to summon the spirit of Michael Jackson and glide backwards along the seafloor

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Galaxy wit bright star appearing in the foreground.
Webb Space Telescope photographs weird galaxy that not only looks “unusual,” but behaves oddly too

By Alan Palazon Published

News Astronomers think that Arp 263, an “irregular” galaxy located 25 million light-years from Earth, is the result of a past galactic merger, responsible for its “distorted” shape

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Visa pour l'Image photography festival loses its founder: why Jean-François Leroy's passing is a huge loss to photojournalism

By Tom May Published

Obituary The man who launched the world's biggest photojournalism festival has died aged 69

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3BHBBXW MARTIN PARR in I AM MARTIN PARR (2024), directed by LEE SHULMAN. Credit: Haut et Court Doc / Album
The seaside town that once called Martin Parr's photographs a betrayal is about to put his face on a mural the size of a building

By Tom May Published

News New Brighton is raising funds for a permanent mural honouring the late street photographer

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