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Pete Muller: TIME Picks the Best Photographer on the Wires
Of the millions of photographs moving through the news services—known as “the wires”—this year, the work of Associated Press freelancer Pete Muller, 29, stood out. His exceptional photographs—focused...
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Pictures of the Week, January 6 – January 13
From violence in Syria to the New Hampshire Republican primary and Uttar Pradesh’s giant stone elephant statues, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.
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Two Photographers’ Mission to Retrace a Lost Liberia
Jeff and Andrew Topham were five and three, respectively, when their father’s job moved them from the Yukon, Canada to just outside of Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia, in 1976, four years before...
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The African Spring: Senegal by Dominic Nahr
They’re using a new type of tear gas in Senegal. It chokes you, blinds you, but it also burns and stings, like it’s been mixed with pepper spray. It’s a sensation with which more and more Senegalese...
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On the Ground: Safe from #Kony?
In the years we’ve worked in Africa, TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr and I have been to some pretty out-of-the-way places: Sudan, Somalia, the Ethiopian mountains, Congo. But I doubt we’ll ever...
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The New Islamists: Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev
Last month TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev and I went to Rabat and Casablanca to report on a story about the rise of Political Islam in the countries of the Arab Spring. As with Tunisia and...
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Tracing the Consequences of War In Divided Sudan
In just over a week, the volatile components behind Sudan’s division into two nations — oil, religion, ethnic rivalry, guerrilla militias, disputed borders — have burst into war. TIME photographer...
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After the Revolution: Libya Photographed by Yuri Kozyrev
The last time TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev and I were in Libya together, we were covering the fall of Tripoli to Libyan rebel forces, near the end of an eight-month civil war. We had covered...
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Waking Dream: Viviane Sassen’s Fashion Photography
Viviane Sassen’s gorgeous, inscrutable fine art images from Africa have earned her acclaim and a place in the Museum of Modern Art. But recently, her surreal and equally beautiful fashion photography...
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Jim Naughten: Conflict and Costume in Namibia
Resting expectantly on the roughly cushioned seat of his motorbike, Jim Naughten was entranced by his first glimpse at the lunar landscape of Namibia. “I felt as though I had been transported to a...
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Harrowing Photos of the Mentally Ill in Sub-Saharan Africa
At its most elemental, photojournalism documents conflict — conflict between individuals, between nations, between ideologies, between humanity and nature. Literally and figuratively, photographers...
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Portraits of the Authentics: Photographing Ancient Cultures Before They Pass...
Jimmy Nelson spent his early days in Nigeria—his father was a geologist for Shell—and his adolescence at a Jesuit boarding school in northern England. He was 16 when he contracted cerebral malaria...
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Dark Gold: Giulio Di Sturco Goes Inside Madagascar’s Cocoa War
There are two narratives of how Dina, a gang member in the northern village of Matsaborilava, Madagascar, died last August. Police suspected the 33-year-old was partly responsible for the death of a...
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#LightBoxFF: Instagram as Revolutionary Media with Andrew Esiebo
Welcome to this week’s edition of TIME LightBox Follow Friday, a series where we feature the work of photographers using Instagram in new, interesting and engaging ways. Each week we will introduce you...
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Photojournalism Daily: Nov. 17, 2014
Today’s daily Photojournalism Links collection highlights Daniel Berehulak’s photographs of a Liberian family ravaged by Ebola. The pictures document the extended Doryen family that has lost seven...
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Krisanne Johnson Awarded the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography
Coming of age for Swazi girls is tough. A tiny African nation of one million, Swaziland is ruled by one of the world’s last remaining absolute monarchies. Its age-old tradition of polygamy and its...
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Virus Hunter: How One Scientist Is Preventing the Next Pandemic
Humans have always had to endure pandemics—sudden outbreaks of new diseases that infect and kill. But Nathan Wolfe isn’t the patient sort. Wolfe runs Global Viral Forecasting (GVF), a group that...
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Portraits of Power: African Kings in an Age of Empire
For too long, African art has been viewed in the West through a distorted lens. The modernists of the early 20th century saw in its shapes a kind of atavistic ideal — divorced from the realism of...
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Pictures of the Week, November 18–25
From renewed riots in Egypt and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s capture to the pepper spray outrage at University of California-Davis and the Kabaddi World Cup, TIME’s photo department presents the best images...
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Insha’Allah: Morocco’s Changing Culture
We reached a vast field just beyond Casablanca’s limit. Dusty trails wandered toward the center, where they crisscrossed then extended further outward toward mosques, half made tenement blocks and...
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