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Greg Nelson / Sports Illustrated
The Backstory

What Makes a Great Basketball Picture? A View of the NBA Finals from Sports Illustrated

What makes a great basketball picture? A view of the NBA Finals from Sports Illustrated photo editor Marguerite Schropp Lucarelli.

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Mathew Brady—Library of Congress
The Backstory

Doctored Photos – The Art of the Altered Image

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.

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Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund
Out There

Top Honors For Yuri Kozyrev At Visa Pour L’Image

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.

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Arlene Gottfried
Out There

Bacalaitos and Fireworks by Arlene Gottfried

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.

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Smith Neuvieme—Fotokonbit
In Progress

Fotokonbit: Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands

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.

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Golan Heights
Closeup

The Best Pictures of the Week, June 3 – June 10

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.”

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Justin Maxon
In Progress

Justin Maxon: When the Spirit Moves

Chester, Pennsylvania is a community facing a wide spectrum of issues. The most grim statistic is the upwards of 300 unsolved murder cases since the mid-nineties. Photographer Justin Maxon writes for LightBox on his plans to use his work to effect change.

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Courtesy Alejandro Chaskielberg / Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Out There

Alejandro Chaskielberg’s The High Tide

Argentinian artist Alejandro Chaskielberg recreates everyday scenes of the Paraná River Delta Region people in surrealist photographs lit by moonlight, flashlights, strobes and lanterns.

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ESA/NASA
Photo Essay

Our Beautiful Planet: Images from Space by an Astronaut Photographer

LightBox presents a beautiful collection of photos of the Earth taken during European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli's Soyuz mission to the International Space Station.

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Thomas P. Peschak
In Progress

Sardine Run by Thomas P. Peschak

Former marine biologist Thomas P. Peschak spends more than 300 days a year pursuing marine conservation photography and ocean reportage. He writes for LightBox about his efforts documenting the annual mid-June sardine run in South Africa's seas.

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