A Photo Book From Priya Ramrakha’s Rediscovered African Archive
After Kenyan photojournalist Priya Ramrakha was killed on assignment in Biafra, Nigeria, in 1968, his photographic legacy and archive vanished. Four decades later, Erin Haney and Shravan Vidyarthi found his prints and negatives in Nairobi. Covered in dust and all but forgotten, the 100,000 images that make up his archive trace the short life of one... Read More
Past Photos of the Day
Inside the remote FARC guerilla camp El Diamante. Daniela Diaz, 32, Yuli M.R., 26, and Nancy Hernandez R., 30. © Mads Nissen
Mads Nissen’s Take on Colombia’s Civil War
June 20, 2018 • Documentary/Photojournalism
Harry and Mpho. August 2017. © Tamary Kudita
An Interracial African Family Album, Real and Imag...
June 19, 2018 • Portraits/Portraiture
Kyran poses for a portrait on "Cowboy Night" at Club Black Castle in Ruleville, Mississippi. © Rory Doyle
Celebrating the Black Cowboys of the Delta
June 18, 2018 • Documentary/Photojournalism
A group of girls command the dance floor during the 2013 Plainfield High School Senior Prom. The theme for this year's event is "midnight masquer...
The Prom from Elation to Exhaustion
June 15, 2018 • Documentary/Photojournalism
Jasmine Albuquerque from the book "36" by Todd Weaver, 2018. ©Todd Weaver.
Todd Weaver’s Experiment: 36 Frames of 36 Artists
June 14, 2018 • Portraits/Portraiture
The Southern Series No. 55, 2015. © Hai Bo
Visual Poems from Southern China
June 13, 2018 • Fine Art
Fidel Castro, 1999. © Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Historical Likeness
June 12, 2018 • Portraits/Portraiture
Mary, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2014. © Alec Soth/Magnum Photos. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of Richard Lovett
Is that a Smile or a Scream?
June 11, 2018 • Portraits/Portraiture
Black Door, The Temple Downtown, Mobile, AL, 2017. © Andrew Moore, courtesy of Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta.