Photographer Ed Wray was terrified the first time he encountered a masked monkey. Having lived and worked in Jakarta as a freelance photographer for years he was accustomed to seeing the animals, cruelly leashed by chains, jumping through hoops or riding trikes on the sidewalks. But the mask was a terrifying twist.
50 years ago today, Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson set out on a bus headed to Jackson, Miss. to document the historic travels of the Freedom Riders.
In 1968, a young photographer named Elliott Landy was assigned by the Saturday Evening Post to shoot a cover image of Bob Dylan. At the time, Dylan was at the height of his fame, while Landy was a relatively unknown photographer. Landy got the job after shooting his first record-album assignment, the Band’s Music from Big Pink, which got noticed by a friend of Dylan’s. The meeting spawned a friendship, yielded an album cover and a left a series of intimate photos of the musician with his young family.
Iceland's most active volcano erupted Saturday — just over a year after another eruption on the North Atlantic island shut down European air traffic for days. The powerful volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam 12 miles into the air.
Halfway through their Postcards From America road trip Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg, Paolo Pellegrin, Susan Meiselas, Mikhael Subotsky and Ginger Strand sent LightBox a dispatch from one stop along the route, Del Rio.
Esteban Pastorino Diaz's photography takes flight in a unique method of photographing landscapes around the world.
This Week: Violence along Israel’s borders; Mississippi floods; Libyan rebels in training; IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan in court; Haitian President Michel Martelly’s inauguration; an Israeli illusionist stands tall; “Spiderman” climbs Turkey’s tallest building; a Chinese bride’s wedding day suicide jump thwarted; and a citizen journalist captures a photo of space shuttle Endeavor as it lifts off for the last time.
South African photographer Anton Hammerl, missing in Libya since April 4th, was killed in Libya more than a month ago.
In one of photojournalism’s blackest hours, Michael Christopher Brown was wounded with shrapnel to the chest, shoulder and arm in an explosion in Misratah, Libya, April 20, 2011 – the same incident that killed photographers Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington, and severely injured Guy Martin.
A new iPad app offers an interactive look at 25 years of George Steinmetz's aerial photography.
