From the Sandy Hook Elementary students' return to school and the death of a gang-rape victim in India to New Year's celebrations and a giant rubber duck in Darling Harbor, Australia, TIME presents the best images of the week.
The photographic voice of English photographer Stephen Gill always has a playfully inventive ring. The photos in his new book, 'Coexistence,' mix the scientific and conceptual while documenting a pond's microscopic communities.
Twenty-three years after it was eradicated in the United States, polio still stalks Pakistan, one of three countries left in the world where the devastating disease is still endemic. Photographer Diego Ibarra Sánchez documented Pakistan's struggle to get a handle on the disease.
There's always something interesting about history—it's often just a matter of knowing where to find it. Shorpy.com highlights the noteworthy negatives of the Library of Congress in high-definition.
The year 2012 was a cyclone of news. Through the highs and lows, LightBox presents a look back on 2012 through 366 images, picking a photo for each day of the past year (and one for the leap day).
TIME looks back on the byproducts of man's folly and nature's fury in a gallery of the year's strange and surreal landscapes.
As we envision what the coming year might bring, Lightbox pauses to celebrate sightings of rainbows — those fleeting emblems of hope — photographed over the past year in unexpected, incongruous places.
As the new year approaches, TIME takes a look back on 2012 to highlight an increasingly common phenomenon: the photographer in the picture.
TIME pauses to remember the photographers we lost in 2012.
LightBox presents one photographer's story of a real-life professional Santa.
LightBox spotlights some of the best photobooks of the year as chosen by photographers and photography experts from around around the world ... and, of course, by the photo editors of TIME.
