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My Most Important Photograph: Brigitte Lacombe, New York, 1988
Some actors like to pose for portraits. They enjoy the exchange with the photographer and the moment when they feel they have been looking their best. But not Meryl Streep. I met Meryl in 1978 on the...
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Behind TIME’s Plastic Surgery Cover With Fashion Photographer Miles Aldridge
When TIME asked fashion photographer Miles Aldridge to shoot the magazine’s latest cover, about plastic surgery, he took a piece of paper and started sketching his ideas. Seen side-by-side with his...
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Behind TIME’s Cover With Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen
Tsai Ing-wen, who is running for president in Taiwan, is on the cover of this week’s edition of TIME Asia. Freelance photographer Adam Ferguson, who authored the cover portrait, takes us behind the...
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See the Eerie Photos Behind True Detective‘s Opening Credits
When the hit show True Detective returned on June 21, HBO viewers were served a series of eerie composite images of scorched landscapes, intertwined highways and dark figures. Within the first seconds...
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How One Photographer Is Mapping America’s Poverty
For more than 20 years, photographer Matt Black has been exploring issues of poverty, migration and farming in California’s Central Valley, painting a picture of extreme economic hardship in one of the...
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Behind TIME’s Cover with Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
Mark Seliger is used to taking pictures of U.S. presidents. He’s photographed Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, both in 2010 for Rolling Stone magazine, and Bill Clinton on several occasions over the past...
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What We Can Learn From Behind-the-Scenes Photos of Dick Cheney on 9/11
Pictures of the burning World Trade Center towers, images seared in minds around the U.S. and the world, quickly came to define the Sept. 11 attacks in graphic fashion. And it’s not hard to see why:...
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Creators of Fake Instagram Account Showing a Migrant’s Journey Speak Out
An Instagram account that purported to show the tribulations of a Senegalese migrant embarking on an illegal journey to Spain turned out to be a campaign set-up to promote a photography festival....
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Behind TIME’s Cover Shoot with Donald Trump and an American Bald Eagle
When Martin Schoeller scrolled through the 28 close-up portraits he had taken of Donald Trump, he was struck to see that they were all identical. “Every frame was the same,” Schoeller says. “Mr. Trump...
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Behind TIME’s Cover With Stephen Colbert
When Stephen Colbert walked into Platon’s studio, he came face to face with one of the photographer’s most iconic images: Bill Clinton on the December 2000 cover of Esquire. “[Colbert] looked at it...
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What the Image of Aylan Kurdi Says About the Power of Photography
The heartbreaking photograph of a dead 3-year-old boy, whose body washed up in Turkey on Sept. 2, has already had an impact on policy, with the U.K. agreeing on Friday to take thousands more refugees....
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Colorized Photos of WWII Refugees Offer New Perspective on This Year’s...
As Europe is faced with one of its largest refugee and migrant crisis, comparisons have been made with World War II when more than 60 million Europeans were forced to leave their homes as they fled...
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Photographing Europe’s Refugee Crisis for the United Nations
“There are very few three-month-long assignments out there,” says freelance photographer Ivor Prickett. So when the Irish photographer was offered one by the United Nations Refugee Agency, he didn’t...
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This Photographer Is Trying to Locate the Migrants Shown in This Iconic Image
We’ve all seen the images of thousands of refugees and migrants on overcrowded ships, fleeing oppression, war and poverty in North Africa and the Middle East for a chance in Europe. Italian...
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10 Tips to Photograph Your Dog
Just two years ago Elias Weiss Friedman assumed the pseudonym “The Dogist” after being inspired by the great street fashion photographer Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist. The idea quickly blew up and...
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Photo Community Raises Funds for Critically Injured Photojournalist
Jared Moossy has seen it all. The Austin-based documentary photographer was in Libya during the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, he was in Afghanistan at the height of the U.S.-led campaign against...
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Photography and Cinema: A Tale of Two Closer-Than-You-Think Siblings
Visually speaking, we live in the iPhone age. The bulky and expensive Handycams of the 1980s (no longer quite so handy) have given way to smartphones, tablets and YouTube. If history is any guide,...
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Anatomy of a Photobook: ‘Where the Heaven Flowers Grow’ by Aaron Huey
National Geographic photographer Aaron Huey’s latest photobook, Where the Heaven Flowers Grow, is a strange publication. From the outside, it looks like your usual book, but once open, it comes apart...
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Seeing Politics: Rediscover Jeff Jacobson’s Alternative Approach to Political...
Since its inception photography has been inseparable from the world of politics where image is crucial. For most presidential candidates, controlling that image has become essential to their message....
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Telling Charleston’s Story in Photographs
They became known as the Emanuel 9. Their names – Clementa Pinckney, Cynthia Graham Hurd, Ethel Lance, Depayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Myra Thompson, Sharonda Singleton, Susie Jackson and...
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