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‘We got naked and covered ourselves in Vaseline’: Katherine Hubbard on photographing her ailing mother
Over five years, Hubbard photographed her mother at home as her memory declined – even persuading her to make nude body prints. What does her mum think of the wrenchingly beautiful images?
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Australia’s best photos the month – September 2026
Floating Kylie, a 95-year-old comedian and sporting prowess all feature in the best images captured across the country ‘You’ve got to be pretty tough to be a drag queen out there’: Damien Frost’s immaculate queer portraits
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Structural decline: what happened to Japan’s iconic buildings? – in pictures
Japan once had a reputation for statement architecture – yet many buildings have been torn down since 2000. A new book reminds us of their futuristic beauty
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‘You’ve got to be pretty tough to be a drag queen out there’: Damien Frost’s immaculate queer portraits
The photographer’s photos are so meticulously staged that viewers often assume they were taken in a studio – not behind a London nightclub or in an Australian goat field One bright spring day, the photographer Damien Frost arrived at a farm in Gungal, outside Muswellbrook, New…
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‘I sleep with all my clothes on to protect my privacy’: a glimpse into life inside a child prison in France
Photographer Alexandre Bagdassarian spent eight months following the daily lives of children in a prison system criticised for the long time spent in cells The cells of the children were difficult places for me to photograph because they are impersonal and intimate at the same…
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Rapper and actor Eve looks back: ‘I was the only girl in the boardroom in major label meetings – that Philly girl had to come out’
The Grammy-winning artist on destroying egos in school, the dealers who looked out for her, and learning from early failure Born Eve Jihan Jeffers in Philadelphia in 1978, rapper Eve released her debut album, Let There Be Eve … Ruff Ryders’ First Lady, in 1999; it entered the…
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Paws for applause: the Feline Oscars – in pictures
More than 200 cats came to compete in the Romania International Cat Show, an international feline beauty contest known as the Feline Oscars, in Bucharest
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‘I was mesmerised by how the fog turned the tower into a monolith’: Derek Zhao’s best phone picture
Zhao was out jogging around Treasure Island, near San Francisco, when he spotted a lonely tower stabbing through the clouds Every morning, Derek Zhao jogs the perimeter of Treasure Island, his home, situated an eight-minute ferry ride from San Francisco.
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The week around the world in 20 pictures
Russian strikes in Kyiv, Netanyahu in New York, floods in Japan and the Asian Games – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
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Oasis, Leicester punks and Ukraine techno: Abbey Road music photography awards 2026 – in pictures
A selection of winners and notable finalists in the awards celebrating the art of music photography, which saw 24,500 images submitted from 42 countries
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Week in wildlife: a tiny tiger-cat, backyard bears and a frilly pink sea cucumber
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
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‘We fled with nothing’: the people making perilous journeys to escape violence in DRC
More than a year after a peace deal was signed, those fleeing fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are finding refuge in camps that are already home to hundreds of thousands living in dire conditions A cry of panic erupts across the camp as several shelters are…
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Block parties and boxing clubs: Martine Barrat’s tough and tender New York – in pictures
The French photographer and actor’s deep love of Harlem and the Bronx was so strong it led to her being invited to gang apartments, child boxing matches and even a stranger’s wedding
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A blood-splattered surgeon after an emergency horse op: Andrea Modica’s best photograph
‘You’d have to be out of your mind not to want to photograph this incredible woman. And it was only afterwards that I realised she looks like a medieval statue, a madonna’ After my first job in the 80s, I had a little money and set off for Italy with my camera and a backpack.
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‘He made something every single day’: David Lynch’s inscrutable photography celebrated in LA show
The director’s surrealist films helped to define Los Angeles. Now the city is celebrating his other passion: photography No one can bring Los Angeles together like David Lynch .
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Alpabzug! Swiss mountain alpaca herding – in pictures
Each autumn the traditional alpabzug (descent of herds) sees farmers in Switzerland move their livestock from mountain pastures down to valley barns. In the Griesalp area above Kiental around 70 alpacas were herded down the valley, before being transported by truck to their…
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Flamingos, family and fear of nuclear disaster: award-winning photos at C/O Berlin – in pictures
Highlights from three new shows to mark the opening of the 15th edition of Berlin Art Week – from Chernobyl to migrating birds, and a retrospective solo show from Carrie Mae Weems
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‘Sometimes I do cruel things – and it’s worth it’: the fabulous shameless art of the great Sophie Calle
The French artist has stalked people, posed as a hotel maid to get into rooms, and filmed her mother’s last breath. Has she any regrets? Non! As a major UK show opens, she recalls her career highs I’ve read enough interviews with Sophie Calle to know that the conversation ahead…
