Mission to Saturn: Beauty from the Final Frontier
More than 13 years ago, the Cassini satellite punched through the Earth’s lower atmosphere riding atop a U.S. Air Force Titan IV rocket. Six years later, after traveling 2.2 billion miles to the outer...
View ArticleThe 2011 Stanley Cup Finals: A View from Sports Illustrated
The morning after the seventh and final game of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, LightBox spoke with Sports Illustrated about photographing championship hockey and editing on deadline. “The action of...
View ArticleIn Arles, a Spotlight on Mexico
The 42nd edition of the Les Rencontres d’Arles photo festival kicked off on July 4 in the south of France, where 47 exhibitions will be shown throughout 23 locations, including old churches and...
View ArticlePlaying with Food: Posing with Piglets at Dinner
While cleaning out his mother’s belongings, Michel Campeau, co-editor of in almost every picture #10, made an unexpected discovery—a photograph of a table full of dinner guests stroking a pig....
View ArticleTo Have and to Hold: Gay Marriages in New York City Begin
Yesterday was the first day same-sex couples were allowed to legally marry in the state of New York. TIME sent photographers to each of New York City’s five boroughs to document the harmonious unions...
View ArticleA Dark Descent: The Streets of Yemen at Night
28-year-old Italian photographer Lorenzo Meloni is fascinated by Yemen and its rapidly-changing existence. Last year, while traveling the country from August to October, Meloni found himself frequently...
View ArticleThe Old One Two: Underground Boxing in New York
Photographer Devin Yalkin first heard about underground boxing the way many legendary things are passed along—through the grapevine. Heading out one night with a few friends, Yalkin arrived at a giant...
View ArticleThe Mane Subject: A Book of Beards
When Justin James Muir moved to West Chester, Pa. a little over two years ago, he found himself in a hairy situation—the beards per capita ratio seemed unusually high. The phenomenon puzzled Muir, so...
View ArticleRuffled Feathers: Recording Birds Caught in Nets
Todd Forsgren ruffles feathers every time he takes a picture. A photographer and professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Forsgren has been recording images of wild birds in the moments...
View ArticleStill Nutty: Portraits of Jerry Lewis by Marco Grob
Earlier this month, TIME sent contract photographer Marco Grob to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) in Nashville to photograph comedian Jerry Lewis. Now 86 years old, Lewis, profiled by...
View ArticleThe Convention Draws Near: The Romney-Ryan Road Trip to Tampa
Election Day is going to come quicker than you know. Long the Republican frontrunner, Mitt Romney has been gradually building momentum towards Nov. 6 since clinching the party nomination on May 29....
View ArticleBehind the Cover: Obama Makes His Way to the DNC
Photographer Callie Shell has documented Barack Obama for more than eight years. This week, her pictures of the President campaigning in New Hampshire are featured in TIME’s special Democratic...
View ArticleGetty Awards $80,000 to Four Photojournalists at Perpignan
On Thursday, Getty Images awarded $80,000 in grants supporting the work of four international photojournalists. Bharat Choudhary, Kosuke Okahara, Paolo Marchetti and Sebastian Liste each received...
View ArticleThe Mohawk Ironworkers: Rebuilding the Iconic Skyline of New York
For more than a century, ironworkers descended from the Mohawk Indians of Quebec have helped create New York City’s iconic skyline, guiding ribbons of metal into the steel skeletons that form the...
View Article150 Years Later: Picturing the Bloody Battle of Antietam
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the single bloodiest conflict ever witnessed on American soil. The Civil War’s Battle of Antietam, fought 60 miles outside of Washington D.C., resulted in 23,000...
View ArticlePhotographing the Clashes in Cairo
Last week, as protests once again raged in the streets of Cairo, Magnum photographer Moises Saman was there. Over three days, he documented the ongoing street battles near his residence in the Garden...
View ArticleThe Street Gangs of Caracas
“There has never been a shortage of bereaved mothers in the sprawling, violent Caracas barrio known as Catia,” writes correspondent Tim Padgett in last week’s issue of TIME International. Caracas, he...
View ArticlePeter van Agtmael Receives the 2012 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic...
On Wednesday night, Magnum photographer Peter van Agtmael received the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, joining a legion of...
View ArticleIn the Eye of the Storm: Capturing Sandy’s Wrath
As Sandy drew near, TIME asked five photographers — Michael Christopher Brown, Benjamin Lowy, Ed Kashi, Andrew Quilty and Stephen Wilkes — to document the hurricane and its aftermath via Instagram....
View ArticleThe Past Comes Alive: History in High-Definition
There’s always something interesting about history—it’s often just a matter of knowing where to find it. That’s the idea behind Shorpy.com, an eye-popping collection of historical imagery that casts a...
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