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Content Credentials
What are Content Credentials, and how can it save photography?

By Sebastian Oakley Last updated

OPINION Are you sure that image is real? Now you will know with Content Credentials

OPINION
Dylan Thomas - portrait of Welsh poet with wife Caitlin Thomas. 1914-1953 (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)
These historic photographs capture the changing personas of Dylan Thomas, from writer to rock star

By Alan Palazon Published

Historical Today, on Dylan Thomas Day, we examine portraits of the Welsh poet, whose enigmatic persona shifted between obscure writer and erratic rock star from frame to frame

Historical
Photographer Ed Westcott, the first AEC government photographer in Oak Ridge. (Photo by: Prisma Bildagentur/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
This photographer took the iconic Oppenheimer portrait using his exclusive Manhattan Project access

By Alan Palazon Published

Features Ed Westcott was assigned to the top-secret Manhattan Project and immortalized the "father of the A-bomb"

Features
2NCN6G2 Civil rights activist James Meredith grimaces in pain as he pulls himself across Highway 51 after being shot in Hernando, Miss., June 6, 1966. Meredith, who defied segregation to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962 completed the march from Memphis, Tenn., to Jackson, Miss., after treatment of his wounds. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell)
RIP Jack Thornell: the press photographer who captured James Meredith's assassination attempt, but worried he'd be fired for not getting the photo – only to go on and win a Pulitzer

By Tom May Published

Obituary We look back at the late photojournalist's extraordinary career

Obituary
A professional Nikon mirrorless camera is surrounded by vibrant red and orange flowers atop a white and light blue cloth, with a small yellow Kodak film box tucked beside its strap.
Magnum photographer Raghu Rai was cremated with a Nikon Z8 and a roll of expired Kodak film

By Tom May Published

News At the funeral of India's greatest documentary photographer, the two objects placed on his chest told his whole story

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Raghu Rai, Photographer of exhibition "In Light of India", Hong Kong International Photo Festival 2014 held at ArtisTree, Taikoo Place (Photo by Dickson Lee/South China Morning Post via Getty Images)
RIP Raghu Rai: India's greatest documentary photographer dies aged 83

By Tom May Published

A Magnum member handpicked by Cartier-Bresson, Raghu Rai spent 60 years documenting India with patience and courage

Photojournalism
Trucks on an arctic road
Fine art photographer and adventurer sets new Cape to Cape world Record capturing the whole journey on camera

By Alan Palazon Published

News Photographer, John Balsdon, led a crew of six adventurers over 20,000km from Norway to South Africa breaking the record previously set by a Canadian duo in 1984 – and he’s going to make a feature film about it

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National Geographic with Leica cameras
National Geographic was my "photography bible" - and now 20 years later, it’s shaping my eye all over again

By Sebastian Oakley Published

Opinion Why reopening National Geographic after 20 years felt like meeting my younger, photographic self again

Opinion
A cavalry soldier and their horse.
These black-and-white photos reveal the individuals behind the uniforms of the UK's oldest army regiment

By Alan Palazon Published

Features Norwegian photographer Glenn Røkeberg offers an intimate black-and-white insight into Britain’s Household Cavalry in his new photobook, Trusted Guardians: Inside the Mounted Regiment

Features
A grid of ten black-and-white photographs showing the Serra Pelada gold mine in Brazil, ranging from wide aerial views of a vast pit swarming with thousands of workers to close-up portraits of mud-covered men carrying heavy sacks up precarious wooden ladders
From gold mine to auction house: what Sebastiao Salgado's latest print sale teaches us about making photos that really matter

By Tom May Published

News As signed prints attached six-figure sums, there are lessons for every photographer who's ever doubted the value of their work

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