Good Pictures, Bad Timing
When a legendary curator chided Will Brown to find his way as a photographer, he set aside images he had made of his Philadelphia neighborhood. Today, those photos attest to the changes in the area.Read more »
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When a legendary curator chided Will Brown to find his way as a photographer, he set aside images he had made of his Philadelphia neighborhood. Today, those photos attest to the changes in the area.Read more »
When a legendary curator chided Will Brown to find his way as a photographer, he set aside images he had made of his Philadelphia neighborhood. Today, those photos attest to the changes in the area.Read more »
When a legendary curator chided Will Brown to find his way as a photographer, he set aside images he had made of his Philadelphia neighborhood. Today, those photos attest to the changes in the area.Read more »
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A generation of female photographers is looking to one another for advice and support as they raise children while still going on assignment overseas. Read more »
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Every day is “Throwback Thursday” for Daniel Akselrad and Erik Goyenechea, who have perfected the lo-fi ’90s look of Game Boy photos.Read more »
Credit Peter van Agtmael
Most pictures don’t make an edit’s final cut. But when Magnum photographers went back through their files, they found delightful images that had gone unseen. Until now. Read more »
Video: CIR
After covering the fall of the Taliban, Zohreh Soleimani returned to Afghanistan to examine the lives of women in prison. Read more »
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A little-known network of buses and vans takes people from New York City to visit relatives in prisons scattered in small towns across the state.Read more »
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 »
Credit Mike Osborne
Revisiting the Atlantic City streets that were immortalized in Monopoly. Read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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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.