Jun 25, 2013 10:00am

Scars: Portraits Both Surreal and Seductive

Aneta Ivanova’s Scars project blends urban and natural landscape photography with portraiture to create a series of stunning black-and-white images. All images © Aneta Ivanova Composited using a blending technique in Photoshop, the images combine silhouettes of the female form with natural and man-made settings… Read More »

Jun 20, 2013 5:30pm

Capturing the Urban Refugee

  In his new multimedia project, “Hidden Lives: The Untold Story of Urban Refugees,” photographer Andrew McConnell turns his lens on the plight of the urban refugee. From families pouring across the Kenyan border fleeing war-torn Somalia to the tens of thousands of Syrians trading… Read More »

Jun 20, 2013 3:42pm

3-D Pencil Sketches Leap Off the Page

Self-taught Dutch pencil artist Ramon Bruin has taken art to new depths. His drawings bring new life to what would normally be just a piece of paper. Like the work of M.C. Escher, the pencil drawings pop out in an optical illusion and play with… Read More »

By Kate Bubacz

Jun 20, 2013 7:00am

PHOTOS: Bikini Babes Back Then

Bikini. The word conjures up a lot of feelings, from dread to pride to titillation. Before the bikini, bathing costumes, as they were known, were decidedly more modest. The arrival of two-piece bathing wear led to the arrest of Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman in 1907. It… Read More »

Jun 19, 2013 7:33am

Refugees Share Personal Accounts of Fleeing Their Homelands

If you had one minute to flee your home in a crisis, what would you think to take with you? This is the question refugees face every day. Today, there are over 45 million people that have been displaced because of war or persecution around… Read More »

By Kate Bubacz

Jun 17, 2013 8:00am

The Faces of a Rebel Force

Miguel Medina, a photographer for Agence-France Presse, visited Latakia, a northern province of Syria in April, 2013.  He had the opportunity to spend several nights with members of the al-Ezz bin Abdul Salam brigade, and was permitted to make formal portraits of the fighters at a… Read More »

Jun 13, 2013 6:00am

Teenage Train Hoppers Chug Through ‘Juvenile Prosperity’

At 17, Mike Brodie hopped his first train close to his home in Pensacola, Fla., thinking he would visit a friend in Mobile, Ala. Instead, the train went in the opposite direction to Jacksonville, Fla. Days later, Brodie rode the same train home, arriving back… Read More »

By Kate Bubacz

Jun 12, 2013 6:00am

Medgar Evers’ Murder: 50 Years Later

It has been 50 years since the shocking slaying of Medgar Evers. The civil rights activist and NAACP field secretary fought for equality on many levels, from organizing voter drives and protests against discrimination, to calling for legal investigations into school segregation and the lynching… Read More »

Jun 11, 2013 7:00am

Fiftieth Anniversary of Vietnamese Monk Setting Himself on Fire

On June 11, 1963, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, set himself on fire at a busy intersection in Saigon. Photographer Malcolm Browne was working on assignment for AP and photographed this iconic image of the Buddhist monk sitting lotus style as he doused himself… Read More »

By Michael Ip

Jun 10, 2013 1:22pm

PHOTOS: Spectacular Wildlife Photography by Takayuki Maekawa

Takayuki Maekawa, one of Japan’s rising wildlife photography stars recently was awarded the grand prize in the first Nikkei National Geographic photo prize. Since 2000, Maekawa has traveled around the world to capture wildlife in its unabashed beauty. In Japan, and throughout Asia, Africa and North… Read More »