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Winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026

Winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026

Published by Daniella Wilson

© Jens Cullmann / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 Practice Makes Perfect. First Place, Other Animals. A young African bullfrog fails to catch its prey. © Preeti John / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 Shelter. Second Place, Mammals. An elephant calf seeks shelter from the blazing sun in the only available shade—the body of its mother. Photographed in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. © Noah Marcheel / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 Mosquitoes on Fire. Second Place, Other Animals. I found these mosquitoes standing on a stone along a stream. The reflected sunlight in the background resembles a blazing fire. © Tobias Richter / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 Green Lines. First Place, Plants & Fungi. Spring fever in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, where mosses, ferns, and wood sorrel bring the rock ledges of cool, dark gorges to life. © Amit Eshel / GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 Ancient Rivals. Second Place, Biodiversity—The Beauty and Significance of Natural Diversity. An Arctic wolf bearing traces of a …

Raghu Rai, legendary Indian photographer, dies at 83 | Arts and Culture News

Raghu Rai, legendary Indian photographer, dies at 83 | Arts and Culture News

Published by Sam Flores

A Magnum Photos icon, Rai’s photographs preserved India’s memory through some of its pathbreaking events spanning decades. Published On 26 Apr 202626 Apr 2026 Internationally acclaimed photographer Raghu Rai, widely regarded as one of the foremost chroniclers of independent India, has died at the age of 83. The photographer’s family on Sunday announced Rai’s death in a statement, paying tribute to “our beloved”. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list A construction engineer by training, Rai was born in a village in what is now Pakistan’s Punjab province before the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent. He went on to become an iconic photographer documenting the complex social and political life of India, with his work ranging from historic turning points to intimate portraits. India’s former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during an election campaign in the 1970s [File: Raghu Rai/The India Today Group via Getty Images] Some of his best-known works include documenting the 1971 independence war of Bangladesh and the 1984 gas leak in the central Indian city of Bhopal that killed an …

AP Photographer Jack Thornell’s Iconic Images of Civil Rights and Beyond

AP Photographer Jack Thornell’s Iconic Images of Civil Rights and Beyond

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Thornell died Thursday at a hospital in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie from complications from kidney disease. He was 86. He worked for the AP from 1964 to 2004 and had a variety of assignments over the years, photographing politicians, natural disasters and crime scenes. But the struggle for racial justice punctuated Thornell’s wire service career from the beginning, and he covered the integration of a Mississippi Gulf Coast school on his first day of work for the New Orleans bureau. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Photos You Should See – April 2026 Source link

As a Pro Photographer, I’ve Loved Using Oppo’s Find X9 Ultra

As a Pro Photographer, I’ve Loved Using Oppo’s Find X9 Ultra

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Oppo’s Find X9 Ultra has been made in partnership with iconic camera maker Hasselblad, so it’s no surprise that the Ultra is geared almost exclusively toward passionate photographers. With a suite of rear lenses, large image sensors, wide apertures and dedicated camera buttons, the X9 Ultra is essentially a full camera bag of gear, all squashed down into a phone body.  I awarded the Find X9 Pro a coveted CNET Editors’ Choice award and the Ultra takes that winning formula and sprinkles in some more photography goodies. I’ve been testing the phone for a few weeks and there’s a lot I like about it. But there are also some interesting decisions the company has made that are worth keeping in mind. I’ll come onto that in a moment, but let’s talk pricing first. Or rather, I can’t talk pricing because Oppo hasn’t revealed this at the time of writing. Given that the X9 Pro is around £1,000 and the Ultra model is being positioned as a much more advanced version, it’s safe to assume it …

Martin Parr: Global Warning review – the great photographer in all his gluttonous, giddy glory | Martin Parr

Martin Parr: Global Warning review – the great photographer in all his gluttonous, giddy glory | Martin Parr

Published by Sam Flores

I didn’t know Martin Parr very well, but the last time I spoke with him, two months before he died in December last year, he told me about his forthcoming exhibition at Jeu de Paume. He wasn’t subtle in adding that the Guardian never reviewed his exhibitions. I wonder now if he knew that the exhibition, titled Global Warning, would be his swansong. I wonder whether he knew he’d never get to see it. Parr was always popular in France. It might be because the French loved his ability to mock the English, but in the end Parr mocked everyone, including himself. When his work was criticised in the UK as classist or sneering, Parr could cross the channel and seek refuge in a nation where no one seemed to read his work that way. The show at Jeu de Paume is set to be the museum’s most visited on record. Global Warning gives us Parr in all his gluttonous, giddy glory, an attentive, unabashed and unpretentious observer of everyday absurdities. But through clever curatorial …

Photographer Wonders If He Should Refund Bride After Staff Member Hooked Up With Groom

Photographer Wonders If He Should Refund Bride After Staff Member Hooked Up With Groom

Published by Jenni Sidey

An anonymous wedding photographer asked for advice on the subreddit r/WeddingPhotography after a colleague betrayed him and the newlyweds they worked with. He found himself in an incredibly awkward situation after he discovered that another photographer he doesn’t usually work with hooked up with the groom from the wedding they shot. The angry bride thinks the photographer should take full responsibility even though he had no control over what happened. The bride wants a refund on her wedding photos after learning her new husband cheated on her with one of their wedding photographers.  The photographer explained that his usual co-photographer couldn’t make it to a wedding he photographed a few months ago, so he hired someone else whom he found online with top-notch skills. They photographed the wedding, edited the pictures, and sent them over to the bride and groom after the wedding. “Everything seemed business as usual,” he reported. Alexander Mass | Pexels A few weeks after the wedding, he received an email from the bride. “She wanted a refund because the lady I …

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 announces People’s Choice winners

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 announces People’s Choice winners

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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. After almost 90,000 votes, Austrian photographer Josef Stefan’s image (seen below) of a lynx batting a rodent like a toy took the top prize of Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People’s Choice Award 2026. “The journey to take this image was more than just another photographic adventure, it was the pursuit of a dream that had been with me for years, encountering the Iberian lynx, one of the rarest and most endangered wild cats in the world,” Stefan said of his win. “In the early 2000s, this species was on the brink of extinction. Today, there are now over 2,000 thanks to consistent conservation efforts. The Iberian lynx is a living symbol of hope, showing what can happen when we take responsibility, act consciously and focus our attention where it’s most needed. Winning this award and being able to platform this message is the highlight of my 30 years as a nature photographer.” “Flying Rodent” Josef has wanted …

Photographer Larry Sultan’s New Book Chronicles His Lifelong Inquiry Into the Uneasy Theater of American Life

Photographer Larry Sultan’s New Book Chronicles His Lifelong Inquiry Into the Uneasy Theater of American Life

Published by Sam Flores

You have probably seen Practicing Golf Swing, a photo by Larry Sultan. It’s an image of his father, barefoot, practicing his golf swing inside his house. The daylight streams through gauzy white drawn curtains, and a small ’80s television set is on in the corner. It sums up Sultan’s work perfectly. He was a master of capturing domesticity and family life in both spontaneous and staged settings. His narrative collage style uses lush, vivid colors to tell the story. If you haven’t seen one of his pictures, you have definitely seen one that was inspired by them. Dad on Bed, 1984, Pictures from Home, from Water Over Thunder: Selected Writings (MACK, 2026).Photographer Larry Sultan. Courtesy of MACK. Sultan was born in Brooklyn in 1946 and moved to the San Fernando Valley three years later. This sprawling urbanized area in Los Angeles County, often referred to simply as The Valley, is bordered by mountains, in a state that Joan Didion described as a “landscape of uneasy suspension, characterized by immense bleached skies, sprawling suburban developments, and …

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: People’s Choice winner named | Ents & Arts News

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: People’s Choice winner named | Ents & Arts News

Published by Daniella Wilson

The 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year has named its People’s Choice winner, selected from more than 60,000 entries and voted for by the public. A young lynx tossing a rodent into the air before killing and eating it in Ciudad Real, Spain, was chosen as the winner from 24 shortlisted pictures. A panel of judges chose the shortlist, in addition to the winning images announced in October. Here is the winning picture and four “highly commended” photos which impressed wildlife lovers in the public vote. Image: Flying Rodent by Josef Stefan, from Austria. Pic: Natural History Museum Conservation efforts mean the Iberian lynx, which was on the brink of extinction in the early 2000s, has now recovered to number more than 2,000. Good news for the lynx, bad news for the local rodents. This game lasted 20 minutes before the cat got bored and took its prey behind a bush to eat it. Image: Beauty Against the Beast by Alexandre Brisson, from Switzerland. Pic: National History Museum A group of flamingos stands out against …

Beirut photographer puts himself in the firing line to capture Israeli strikes

Beirut photographer puts himself in the firing line to capture Israeli strikes

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Fadel Itani is no stranger to Israeli strikes in his hometown. The 39-year-old photographer from Beirut captured a stunning sequence of images in the early hours of Wednesday, showing an Israeli missile demolishing a tower block in one fell swoop. Itani, a freelance photographer with more than 16 years experience, told NBC News that he learned about the incoming strike from an alert sent by the Israel Defense Forces. Fadel Itani.Courtesy of Fadel Itani It warned residents to evacuate the Bashoura neighborhood in Lebanon’s capital where it said the Iran-backed militant group, Hezbollah, was operating. “For the last two weeks, bombs have been dropping on Beirut,” he said, speaking from his home Wednesday. While others fled the incoming strike, Itani headed in the opposite direction. Hopping onto his motorbike, he made the short journey from his family home and positioned himself behind a parking lot some 400 yards away from the site the Israeli military said it was targeting. Carrying only his camera and a wide-angle lens, he watched and waited wearing a protective vest …