Every year the National Geographic Traveller photography competition winners amaze readers with their outstanding quality of images, and this year is no exception. The competition receives submissions covering the globe, documenting everywhere from the Antarctic to the deep depths of Africa. To enter the competition, UK photographers had to submit their images into one of […]
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Clever NYC Street Photography Snapshots Captured by Coincidence
At first glance, Jonathan Higbee‘s art looks like straightforward street photography snaps of New Yorkers doing their thing. Upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that Higbee’s work is a series of visual puns captured purely by coincidence. In fact, that’s the name of his series, Coincidences. Website Ignant reveals that Higbee spends hours waiting for the right […]
A Teen Photographer’s Intimate Snapshots of ’70s and ’80s Icons
If you rewrote Almost Famous to spotlight a photographer rather than a journalist, you might have something like the story of Brad Elterman – the “teenage paparazzo” who, at 16, began skipping school, sneaking into clubs and concerts, hanging out at studios, and taking photographs of the rock legends of his day. And like the […]
NYC Taxi Driver’s Photos of Passengers Capture Snapshots of the City in the ’80s
When you’re driving strangers around all day in New York City, you’re bound to have a few tales to tell. Driving a taxi is an adventure that California boy and MFA grad Ryan Weideman — whose work we recently revisited on Lost at E Minor — was looking for when he landed in the big city in […]
Washington: Monumental snapshots of America's capital from the White House to Capitol Hill
GETTY Visitors on the Lincoln Memorial steps with the Washington Monument in the background Not since the last series of House Of Cards has there been so much intrigue in America’s capital Washington, where President Donald Trump took office in January. Since then he has become renowned for his constant tweets and no-nonsense, blunt statements […]