Freelance photographer Bill Hoenk was on hand to document the chaos following the second explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. His photograph of a Boston police officer carrying a wounded child is the cover image of TIME's digital edition, a special report on the tragedy in Boston.
LightBox spoke with Boston Globe photographer John Tlumacki, who photographed the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Tlumacki, who has photographed more than 20 marathons in his 30 years at the Globe, describes the sheer chaos of the scene.
Columbia University has announced the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winners for breaking news and feature photography. A five-photographer team from the Associated Press was recognized in the Breaking News photography category for their photographic coverage of the ongoing Syrian civil war. Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Khalil Hamra, Muhammed Muheisen and Narciso Contreras were members of the team that contributed to the agency’s coverage of the two-year-old conflict.
Muhammed Muheisen's photographs are poignant visual reminders of how humanity awakens and lives out each day in Pakistan, Syria and Afghanistan. Here, TIME presents a selection of the Associated Press photographer's work from the past calendar year. Muheisen was part of the AP team awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News photography from Syria.
From Margaret Thatcher's death and a 24 hour vigil for victims of gun violence to elections in Venezuela and the world's biggest Pope statue, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
There is a bracing simplicity and subtlety to the black and white portraits in Teenage Precinct Shoppers, a new book of Nigel Shafran's work published by Dashwood Books.
With temperatures regularly falling to -40°C, Yakutsk, a city in Siberia, holds the distinction as the coldest city on Earth. Photographer Steeve Iuncker writes for LightBox about his project documenting the frozen landscapes of Russia's remote, frozen city.
For Jeffrey Kluger's feature on animal grieving in this week's issue, TIME reached out to noted animal photographer Charlotte Dumas, who has been making deeply empathetic portraits of a variety of species for years.
Presidential photographers are afforded access to their subjects that most journalists only dream of. But what happens when their original negatives are destroyed?
They are a familiar sight to anyone who has been on the frontlines in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo: striped sheets that once blocked the harsh sunlight or a neighbor’s prying eyes, now acting as shields against more lethal threats.
