Fisherman’s Mysterious Photographs Capture Essence of Selkie Folklore
Jeff Dworsky dropped out of school at 14, bought a Leica at 15, and moved to a small island in Maine at 16 to become a fisherman.
Jeff Dworsky dropped out of school at 14, bought a Leica at 15, and moved to a small island in Maine at 16 to become a fisherman.
The 2026 iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS) has announced the winners of its 20th annual competition. This year, thousands of photographers from more than 140 countries showed just how powerful an iPhone can be in the right hands and how great photos don't always require high-end, dedicated camera equipment.
The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the shortlist for its annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. This year's edition received nearly 4,000 entries from dedicated amateur and professional photographers from 66 different countries.
Famed abolitionist, writer, and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass was pioneering and influential in his use of photography in the 19th-century abolitionist movement. For Douglass and his peers, the camera was a potent weapon in the fight for the rights and freedoms of Black Americans.
Manas National Park is a magical location situated in the foothills of the Himalaya in Northeast India, where photographer Matan Sharon recently spent time documenting a rare black leopard family raising cubs.
In his latest video project, photographer Michael Shainblum returns to the volatile, weather-driven landscapes of New Zealand with a body of work shaped less by fixed composition and more by responsiveness to constant change. We spoke with Shainblum to learn more about the creative and technical approach behind his immersive landscape photography.
A photographer has spent the best part of a decade documenting the War on Drugs -- looking at where cocaine comes from and where it ends up.
A Game Boy enthusiast recently took his classic 1998 console to Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles and attached it to an enormous 60-inch telescope.
Over 10 years ago, photographer Dustin Snipes revealed how he captured an iconic shot of NBA star Anthony Davis dunking the Sun. But fast-forward 11 years, and Red Bull once again commissioned Snipes to do a near-identical shoot. Only this time with AJ Dybantsa, who is projected to be the number one pick at today's NBA Draft.
The 2026 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year has unveiled its shortlist -- and there are some real bangers on there.
Travel and nature photographer Jake Guzman has spent the past two years creating Otherworldly America, a new 256-page photography book that features hundreds of photos Guzman has captured all across America, from Alaska and Hawai'i all the way to New England. It is a beautiful look at what makes the United States such a special place for landscape photographers, and a rich well of photo opportunities that can never truly be exhausted.
The winning photos from the third annual Nature and Humans Photo Competition reveal two very different but equally important aspects of non-human animals.
As globalization brought the population of the world together, it began to feel like a smaller place. Once exotic destinations like Japan or Bali are now teeming with tourists -- all hungry for a photo. Unexplored areas now feel like a relic of the past, but one photographer says he's found a path less traveled.
Nature's 2026 Scientist At Work photography competition features five of the best photos that scientists captured around the world, showcasing the important work scientists do and the incredible places they go.
The winners of the 2026 Sony Future Filmmaker Awards have been revealed, showcasing up-and-coming filmmaking talent across five categories.
I have wondered for many years what you would see if you were a tiny ant looking up when walking through a flower field, or a ladybug that has just landed on a flower stem.
Sir David Attenborough turned 100 last month, and much of his incredible life's mission has been celebrating and showcasing the natural world. Billions of people on Earth have heard Attenborough's voice, heard his words, and seen his work. Arguably, nothing on Earth impacts life as much as the oceans, and that's the focus of "Ocean with David Attenborough," streaming now online and on National Geographic, Disney+, and Hulu.
Wandering through a market in Frankfurt years ago, photo collector Jochen Raiss stumbled across a photo of a woman halfway up a tree.
Japan-based analog photographer D.Daniel has delivered arguably the most comprehensive, efficient, and useful comparisons of color and black-and-white photographic film stocks ever.
As promised, photographer James Warner, known for his YouTube channel snappiness, created a full-length video about his ultra-rare Polaroid X530 compact camera. The weird 2004 digital camera has a Foveon X3 image sensor, marking the first and only time a Foveon sensor was utilized by a non-Sigma digital camera.
The 13 winners of the 13th annual Photo Competition for United Nations World Oceans Day have been announced.
The 2026 Beaker Street Science Photography Prize has unveiled its finalists, and they are a spectacular collection of beautiful, scientifically valuable images captured by photographers and scientists around the world.
Towering 11,249 feet above sea level, Mount Hood is the tallest mountain in the state of Oregon. The mountain is so large that on a clear day, it can be visible from over 100 miles away.
Fly over a field near Toulouse, France, look down, and right now you will see a giant eye looking back at you. The ambitious art installation is called Farming Photographs and is the work of British-Spanish artist Almudena Romero.
Most photographers I know are in constant motion. New cities, new continents, new visual problems to solve. There's truth in it. Unfamiliarity forces you to look. Familiarity gives you permission to stop. But there's another, less-discussed school of practice that works in the opposite direction: stay. Return. Go back to the same streets until the strangeness burns away and something else appears in its place.
Photographer Sam (Samantha) Owens is covering her first NBA Finals, representing the long-time advancement of women assigned to document elite sports events.
Rephotography is when photographers capture the same location multiple times across a stretch of time. Aaron Wessling has been visiting Mount Tabor Park in Portland since 2022.
A tender image titled A Woman Eats in the Canteen of the Soviet-era Sanatorium, by British photographer Jo Kearney, is the Overall Winner of the World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Bimi®.
The closest the United States gets to the Amazon rainforest is the southeastern part of the country, a biologically rich region consisting of forests and wetlands. Photographer Mac Stone has spent decades creating a visual dispatch there.
The Smithsonian Institution, a group of 21 museums, 21 libraries, and other institutions and historical landmarks, has brought a curated selection of its massive archive to Unsplash.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda needs no further explanation. It's a challenging landscape to navigate, and numerous animals inhabit it. But its most famous residents are the mountain gorillas.
National Geographic's new documentary film, "Time and Water," grapples with a challenging, profound question: How do you say goodbye to what you never thought you could lose? Through archival footage, photos, art, and science, Academy Award-nominated director Sara Dosa follows acclaimed Icelandic writer and poet Andri Snær Magnason as he confronts the death of his country's glaciers, the loss of his grandparents, and the kind of world he hopes future generations can experience. The story's next chapters are being written at this very second.
Logging into his profile on the 35 Awards photo competition, Steve Scott Grogin received a notification telling him his photo of an alligator's eye had been disqualified from the Mobile Phone category. The reason? The organizers believed it had been taken with "professional camera equipment."
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy had to wait for six days and 1.7 million photos before nailing his latest masterpiece: a Boeing 737 transiting the Sun.
A photography student sent a 5x4 color negative into space on April 19 and exposed it to cosmic radiation, capturing a beautiful, abstract portrait of space unlike anything done before.
A photographer uses lighting and special equipment to capture something not usually seen by the human eye: the intricate patterns, texture, and color found on insect wings.
Science educator Steve Mould's newest video sheds fascinating light on an oft-forgotten color photography process. Mould's video has the grabby title, "You've Never Seen a Real Photo," which is closer to the truth than it sounds.
In 2004, Epson and Voigtländer teamed up to create a truly legendary camera, the Epson R-D1. It was the world's first digital rangefinder, packed with exceptional features and style to match. Cameralabs' Gordon Laing has given the Epson R-D1 his wonderful "Retro Review" treatment, giving the R-D1 another chance to shine and show the world what made it so special more than 20 years ago.
Few people get to see the full splendor of the Milky Way Galaxy arch -- even fewer get to see the summer and winter arms in the same night.
A photographer has revealed the journey he went on to capture an incredible photo of a rare form of lightning sprites.
In 2001, Jake Shivery opened Blue Moon Camera and Machine in Portland's St. John's neighborhood. At the time, there were 11 other camera stores across the city, but Shivery decided to open a shop anyway. On December 1, he opened the doors -- and no one came.
Travel photography blog Capture the Atlas has announced the winners of its annual Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition which features 25 spectacular photos of the night sky.
Luca Lorenz has won the GDT (German Society for Nature Photography) Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 in its annual members' competition for his painterly photo of a mountain hare.
The 1994 genocide in Rwanda was one of the most intimate and large-scale acts of violence of the 20th century. In just 100 days, between 800,000 and one million people were killed, mainly Tutsis but also Hutus. Perpetrators were neighbors, teachers, church leaders, even family members, who attacked face-to-face with machetes, clubs, and spears.
A new documentary follows photographers and scientists deep into Florida’s most remote swamps in search of answers to one of botany’s most enduring questions: what pollinates the elusive ghost orchid. Long considered one of North America’s rarest and least understood flowers, the species has resisted decades of study, with its reproduction largely undocumented in the wild.
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the winners of the 16th edition of the Wiki Loves Monuments photo competition -- with three of the top five entries hailing from Iran.
Two photographers spent an exhilarating couple of months at a wildlife conservancy in Kenya, capturing photos of lions, leopards, and many other animals in their natural habitat.
The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards has unveiled the Sterna People's Choice Award winner for the 2025 competition. Photographer Alison Tuck from the United Kingdom earned top honors for her hilarious portrait of a gannet getting a face full of grass and weeds.
Hasselblad has announced the 70 finalists of its prestigious Hasselblad Masters 2026 competition, highlighting exceptional photos across seven categories.
Evident Scientific, a scientific solutions and microscopic imaging company, has announced the winners of its sixth annual Image of the Year photo contest. The competition celebrates the world's best scientific microscopic imaging, and the photos are as scientifically valuable as they are beautiful.
