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‘None of them had ever seen an eclipse in real life’: Maurice Bakley’s best phone picture
An elementary school watch party turned into a great opportunity to take a child’s-eye view of a spectacular astral phenomenon Maurice Bakley was chaperoning an eclipse watch party at his son’s elementary school in Arlington, Virginia, when he took this photograph.
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Street photography through an Australian lens – in pictures
From a sleepy restaurant to a climbing leopard, the Australian Street Photography awards celebrate the best contemporary street photos taken by Australians. Twenty-five finalists have been selected by an independent jury through Aussie Street, a platform for photographers.
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The week around the world in 20 pictures
Russian airstrikes in Kyiv, floods in Gaza, Abdul El-Sayed in Washington and Cop31 – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Warning: this gallery contains images some readers may find distressing
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A lipsmacking journey from kisses galore to tears of despair – How Do We Find Love? review
Sainsbury Museum and Art Centre, Norwich With some uplifting works despite a certain obviousness, this broad double-hander tackles the vast topics of love, smooching and the aftermath To quote 1980s soft rockers Foreigner, I want to know what love is.
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Week in wildlife: Scottish beavers, running giraffes and good news for dormice
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
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‘Hurry, hurry, get your tickets now!’ The last of the great Australian showmen – photo essay
My Uncle Teddy was born 90 years ago into a long line of whip-cracking sideshow folk – his grandmother used to dangle people in the air by her teeth. From contortionists and knife-throwers to a double-jointed horse, he recalls the magic of the showgrounds’ heyday My uncle Teddy…
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Punks, sex workers and society in transition: documenting postwar Japan – in pictures
A Long Shadow: Postwar Japan Through the Lens will be the first show of Japanese photography in more than three decades at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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‘I railed against the stereotype of the humourless lesbian’: the cheeky, feminist photography of Jill Posener
Her witty photos served as a rebuttal to 80s misogyny and Thatcherite conservatism. Now 50 years on, the photographer is receiving an overdue retrospective. ‘I loved that we could respond with humour,’ she says. If it were a lady it would get its bottom pinched.
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Wish you were here? Retro holiday guides – in pictures
As a child, Jonny Trunk never went on holiday – perhaps that’s why he started collecting vintage brochures that showed glamorous beaches and cruises (but never the malfunctioning toilets)
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The space rocket I could have been aboard explodes: Rhiannon Adam’s best photograph
‘I was chosen to go around the Moon on a SpaceX starship. Preparations took over my life. Then, four minutes into watching a rocket on a test flight, it broke apart.
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Diners, deserts and donkeys: 100 years of Route 66 – in pictures
A selection of images from the famous US highway, which was established on 11 November 1926
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Back of the net! Scotland’s historic salmon fishers – in pictures
Colin McPherson has spent three decades working on Catching the Tide, his moving portrayal of fishers and an old way of life that is dying out
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Letter: Ian Berry obituary
By the time the photographer Ian Berry persuaded the Russian officer at the Czech border in 1968 that he was on the way to an architects’ conference, he had already been commissioned to contribute to Manplan, a groundbreaking series of photo essays in the Architectural Review in…
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‘I’m looking for faces which surprise me’: how Richard Avedon photographed the soul of his subjects
Ron Howard’s illuminating Netflix documentary looks back on the career of one of America’s most inventive and versatile photographers Richard Avedon had only taken a couple of frames when he accidentally hit his head on a light being held above him.
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One step beyond! Janette Beckman on her era-defining 2 Tone and ska images – in pictures
From the Specials and the Beat to Paul Weller and Sade, Janette Beckman’s glorious black and white photographs perfectly captured British music in the late 1970s and early 1980s
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Faceless workers and a tsunami of Post-it notes: the surreal world of Japan’s salarymen – in pictures
In his photographic series Ganbatte, Copenhagen-based Argentinian visual artist Jairo Alvarez explores the juxtaposition and harmony between Japan’s relentless work culture and its traditions, connection to nature and faith.
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Millions in India celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights – in pictures
The spiritual triumph of ‘light over darkness’ is celebrated during Diwali, which people mark by lighting traditional lamps, decorating homes and gathering with family and friends
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From the streets of Lagos to the Chanel catwalk: how a creative’s thrift-shop style took her to Paris
Rachel Ojuromi and her stylist friend Debby Fasingha recreated high-end designs in effortlessly cool videos shot around the city. Then the fashion house came calling Before Paris, there was Lagos, with its busy markets, roadside stalls and maze of disorderly streets.
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The tiny world of Australian fairywrens – in pictures
Howard Loosemore, alongside a few talented photographer friends, spent 15 years capturing every Australian fairywren species and plumage in vivid detail that’s been published in a new book about the small and colourful lives of fairywrens
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Monica Dolan looks back: ‘I was repulsed by Rose West, yet I had to work out what made her tick’
The Bafta-winning actor on her toughest roles, teenage crushes, and the joy of finding her people at drama school Born in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, in 1969, Monica Dolan is a TV, film and stage actor.
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Let a thousand blossoms bloom: Sydney’s jacarandas put on their spring show – in pictures
The city enters its purple patch with jacaranda trees blazing into flower in the warmer weather. Every October and November the fast-growing trees are festooned with trumpet-shaped blossoms that soon carpet the ground below them, drawing sightseers, photographers – and people…
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‘My reward for waiting in the cold was this painting-like view of the ghat’: Priya Ojha’s best phone picture
There was dense fog over a sacred Indian river, but the photographer would not be deterred … When Priya Ojha first arrived at Yamuna Ghat in New Delhi, late in December 2021, she was disappointed.
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The week around the world in 20 pictures
US midterms, Russian airstrikes in Sloviansk, student protests in Lyon and Russell Brand in court – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Warning: this gallery contains images some readers may find distressing
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Head On Portrait awards 2026 – in pictures
A portrait of a First Nations elder by Queensland photographer Sylvia Liber is the winning image in the annual Head On Portrait prize. Head On Photo festival founder Moshe Rosenzveig says: ‘The awards give photographers from around the world an opportunity to have their work…
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Identity, resilience and community: early Black portrait photography – in pictures
A new Washington DC exhibition aims to show how African Americans have used portrait photography to depict themselves, their communities, their aspirations and their identities.
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Week in wildlife: an autumnal deer, golden jackals and an oily-kneed beetle
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
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Where to start with: John Berger
The influential British writer and critic was born 100 years ago today. Here’s a guide to his genre-bending writing on art, love, sex, mortality and more John Berger was born a hundred years ago today.
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Mystical visions: strange sightings at Bristol photo festival – in pictures
From women floating across the shore to magical patches of Irish land, this year’s exhibitions are full of fantastic yet confounding photography
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‘I put a smoke bomb in a road cone and stuck it on my head’: Delton Barrett’s best photograph
‘It occurred to me that this image looked like someone losing their mind, going ballistic. I tried many shots and was getting tired. Looking back, it’s a wonder I survived’ I grew up on New Providence in the Bahamas, and still live on the south side of the island.
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Women behind the lens: ‘I learned early what I was meant to become: a wife, a cook, a keeper of the home’
The South African artist Remofiloe Nomandla Mayisela questions the role she was expected to fulfil in her playful self-portraits MilkMaid is part of my photographic series Lipservice, which stars Mrs Martha May, a contemporary makoti (a colloquial South African term for a wife).
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Roll with it! This year’s best portrait photography – in pictures
Dashing cowboys, a transgender storm chaser and a fetching mullet are among the subjects of these acclaimed photographs for the Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026
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Highlights of 2026 election night across the US – in pictures
As polls close and election results roll in, Americans across the country wait in anticipation and celebrate announced outcomes US midterm elections – live updates Track live results from all 50 states
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The night-sky image so incredible the NZ man behind it has been accused of using AI
Brendan Larsen spent hours taking hundreds of photographs of the sky over a mountain in New Zealand A photograph showing thousands of satellites cross-hatching the night sky over New Zealand appeared so extraordinary the astrophotographer who captured it is fighting accusations…
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Autumn colours and ghostly mist – readers’ best photographs
Click here to submit a picture for publication in these online galleries and/or on the Guardian letters page
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Send in the clowns! Dreamlike images – in pictures
Nicolas Rachline’s stunning book Elsebound is full of painterly photographs inspired by Edward Hopper and Blade Runner. He explains his uniquely haunting style
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Crossings: Laura Pannack’s award-winning images of South African youth – in pictures
The British visual artist and photographer Laura Pannack has been named the winner of the inaugural Tom Stoddart award for excellence 2025. A collaboration between Gost Books and the Ian Parry photojournalism grant , the award supports photographers engaged in long-form…
