Images from the devastation of the Easter Sunday bombings show glimpses of how the country is mourning.
Tag: Photography
Notre-Dame Fire Photos: Despair and Grief Amid Smoke and Flame
As hundreds of firefighters raced to the cathedral, in the center of the French capital, Parisians gathered to watch, many of them in tears.
Lens: Is This the Best Photo of the Year?
John Moore’s photo of a 2-year-old asylum seeker and her mother being detained was named photo of the year in the World Press Photo contest.
Ed Westcott, a Singular Eye at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, Dies at 97
He was the government’s official photographer at Oak Ridge, Tenn., a secret city where uranium was enriched for the bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
From Russia, With Thrusters
As another Soyuz space rocket prepares to send a new batch of astronauts to the International Space Station, a photographer takes us inside the world’s oldest and largest spaceport.
Lens: Young People Left Behind in China’s Snowbound Rust Belt
Ronghui Chen’s photographs of young people in Northeastern China capture a loneliness he recognized in his own trek from village to city.
India Dispatch: At the World’s Largest Religious Gathering, Nirvana and ‘Glamping’
This year’s Kumbh Mela, a Hindu pilgrimage, was the biggest and most expensive ever. But some holy men said the difference from prior years was not a positive one. “I give it a zero,” said one.
At War: The Problem With Memorializing Our War Dead Without Honest Accounting of History
It’s irresponsible to memorialize wars in a way that strips out the darker notes and creates a narrative that is “narrow, heroic and emotionally soothing.”
Lens: The Disappearing Chimney Sweeps of Paris
With the romanticized but dangerous and dirty trade languishing, Pete Hawk captured chimney sweeps at work, toiling above treetops in the City of Light.
Lens: Martin Parr: 48 Years of Photographing the Quirky and Kitschy in Manchester
For almost half a century, the British photographer has captured the diversity and eccentricity of the city of Manchester in northwestern England.