Credit Clay Benskin
Three years after Clay Benskin told a photographer friend he could take better pictures with a smartphone, he has produced thousands of images. But he still doesn’t see himself as a street photographer.Read more »
Three years after Clay Benskin told a photographer friend he could take better pictures with a smartphone, he has produced thousands of images. But he still doesn’t see himself as a street photographer.Read more »
Three years after Clay Benskin told a photographer friend he could take better pictures with a smartphone, he has produced thousands of images. But he still doesn’t see himself as a street photographer.Read more »
Credit Mike Osborne
Revisiting the Atlantic City streets that were immortalized in Monopoly. Read more »
Credit Alex Masi
Alex Masi vowed to help an Indian child he photographed in Bhopal continue her schooling while he pressed on with a long term project about her.Read more »
Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times
Daniel Berehulak’s “Braving Ebola” is a result of inspiration, improvisation and a determination to offer viewers a new way to see, and feel, an urgent story.Read more »
Photo: Channon Hodge/The New York Times; Video: Channon Hodge, Tanzina Vega and Taige Jensen
“Off Color,” a New York Times video series, looks at how artists of color are making sharp social commentary about race in America through comedy and performance. Read more »
Credit Joey L.
Who needs to go halfway around the world to encounter the exotic? Among Halloween revelers in Brooklyn, costumes may cover bodies, but they reveal some essential fears and fantasies.Read more »
Credit Duane Michals
A major retrospective of the ever-prolific Duane Michals opens this weekend in Pittsburgh, the city that is his spiritual home.Read more »
Credit Tanya Habjouqa
Their husbands died fighting the Syrian government. Today, their widows who had been given safe haven in Jordan lead impoverished, vulnerable lives. Read more »
Credit Tomas van Houtryve
Tomas van Houtryve took the idea of foreign drone strikes and instead targeted similar domestic situations, putting them under surveillance using his drone in public spaces.Read more »
Credit Courtesy of Jide Odukoya and LagosPhoto.
The Lagos Photo Festival strives to foster encounters among photographers inspired by Africa and to nurture local artists.Read more »
Photo: Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times; Video: Ben C. Solomon
Ben C. Solomon has been making videos about the Ebola outbreak, finding scenes of courage even as people struggle to contain the disease.Read more »
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Lens is the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, presenting the finest and most interesting visual and multimedia reporting -- photographs, videos and slide shows. A showcase for Times photographers, it also seeks to highlight the best work of other newspapers, magazines and news and picture agencies; in print, in books, in galleries, in museums and on the Web. And it will draw on The Times's own pictorial archive, numbering in the millions of images and going back to the early 20th century. E-mail us tips, story suggestions and ideas to lensnytimes@gmail.com.
