More than 13 years ago, the Cassini satellite punched through the Earth's lower atmosphere on its way to Saturn, transmitting images millions of miles away. Filmmakers Chris Abbas created a short film of the spacecraft's amazing images.
The winner of the 2011 Leica Oskar Barnack Prize is Danish photographer Jan Grarup, whose haunting images of the aftermath of the devastating January 2010 earthquake in Haiti provided a dramatic perspective on the human toll of the tragedy.
From February 26th to April 7th, 2011, Moises Saman was one of the few western photographers allowed to work in Tripoli—as a “guest” of the Gaddafi regime.
Corey Arnold always knew he would work as a fisherman. In his surreal photographs made over months at sea, he is as much participant as observer.
What makes a great basketball picture? A view of the NBA Finals from Sports Illustrated photo editor Marguerite Schropp Lucarelli.
Photographic images can be altered and manipulated in various ways to change their meaning. David Levi Strauss traces the motivation and art of the altered image through history.
Just minutes ago, top honors were awarded to TIME Contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev at the prestigious international photo festival, Visa Pour L’Image. Kozyrev received the Visa D’or for his work covering the Arab Spring since January of this year. Here lightBox takes a look back.
Over the past four decades, documentary photographer Arlene Gottfried captured the vibrant Puerto Rican community that moved into her Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, a place where she remembers having her first Salsa lesson with a new neighbor.
Some of best images at this year's LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph were not made by professionals, but by amateurs — participants in "social photography workshops" in Haiti run by the non-profit organization Fotokonbit.
This Week: the Puyehue Volcano erupts in Chile, Syrian demonstrators are killed by Israeli troops in the Golan Heights; the Iranian women’s soccer team banned from the 2012 Olympics; Anti-government protesters in Yemen celebrate President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s departure to Saudi Arabia; E.coli outbreak in Germany, Anthony Weiner’s sex scandal; and “Teddy Bear Hospital.”
