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Legendary Japanese photographer behind David Bowie's iconic "Heroes" cover honored with Lifetime Achievement Award – Sukita defined decades of music photography

By Kim Bunermann Published

NEWS Inspired by memories of his father taking photos on the front line during WWII, Masayoshi Sukita spent decades capturing music's most influential artists. Now he receives Abbey Road's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award

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Luminous "ghost net" wins prestigious photography award while shedding light on growing threat to mangrove swamps

By Alan Palazon Published

NEWS Gaurav Patil is the 2026 Mangrove Photographer of the Year for his image of a discarded fishing net glowing under UV light entangled in a mangrove, highlighting the growing threat "ghost gear" poses to these marine ecosystems

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A composite portrait showing Marilyn Stafford in a sun hat holding a Rolleiflex camera on the left, and Albert Einstein seated indoors on the right.
She was handed a camera to capture Albert Einstein and never put it down. Now, as the award that carries Marilyn Stafford's name marks its 10th anniversary, these photographers are continuing her tradition of getting close to the story

By Tom May Published

Talks, retrospectives and a portfolio day mark ten years of the prize that supports women in documentary photography

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Puffin standing on grass with multiple small fish in its beak against a golden sunset background
16-year-old photographer's golden puffin image won top photo prize and landed a magazine front cover – now young photographers are invited to follow in her footsteps

By Kim Bunermann Published

News Young photographers aged 16 and under across the UK are invited to put down their screens, explore the outdoors, and capture nature's wonders in The Week Junior Science+Nature Photo Contest

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Praying pooches to friendly felines: pet photography awards finalists mark the bizarre and picturesque

By Alan Palazon Published

News The 2026 International Pet Photography Awards finalists have been announced, and this year’s commended images have it all, from religious canines to picture-perfect kitties

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Aerial view of road running through snow-covered field. There is a church and a tree on the left-hand side of the road.
This simple composition is as good as they come – and it just won an aerial photography award

By Alan Palazon Published

News German photographer Aleksandra Wilk infused negative space into this masterfully simple drone shot, winning an International Aerial Photographer of the Year Award

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A close-up, wide-angle shot of a giraffe's head leaning dramatically toward the camera, contrasting its patterned neck and body against a grassy landscape under a dramatic, cloudy sky
This nose-to-lens giraffe photograph earned a major award for its dramatic camera phone perspective

By Tom May Published

NEWS How an ultra-wide lens on an iPhone 13 turned a curious giraffe into an award-winning close-up portrait

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Black and white portraits of three rugged coal miners in gear (left) and an older man in a leather jacket and hat at a mining site (right)
Using large-format photography, this student wins two major photo awards for recording coal miners in the last working drift colliery in Western Europe

By Kim Bunermann Published

NEWS Shot on 5x4 large format HP5, the documentary photographer and published photojournalist aims to document the coal mine landscapes and workers "before they vanish under the weight of time"

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A night scene of a dramatic performance with molten iron or fire being thrown into the air, creating glowing orange explosions of sparks and flames shaped like wings against a black background
Old-world fire and new-world tech: how an iPhone's extreme telephoto reach photographed China's ancient art of molten sparks

By Tom May Published

NEWS This striking image of a traditional fire performance earned an Honorable Mention at the 2026 iPhone Photography Awards.

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An individual wearing a blue jacket and white pants climbs horizontally across a large, weathered red sculpture with peeling paint against a clear blue sky.
From Japanese parks to German playgrounds, Kerstin Weiser uses harsh flash lighting and color-matched costumes to fuse humans with concrete structures

By Tom May Published

NEWS Kerstin Weiser's award-winning series turns willing volunteers into living extensions of concrete scales and painted slides

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