Though an estimated 4 million photographs of Union soldiers survive, the figures they capture have only been identified in 20 percent of all cases.

Michał Iwanowski came across some graffiti in Cardiff that said: ‘Go home, Polish.’ So he did. The 105-day slog almost broke him – but it restored his faith in a volatile, fractured Europe

Established in the 2009, the British Wildlife Photography Awards concentrate on local UK photographers celebrating the beauty and diversity of Britain's flora and fauna. The winning image, 14 months in the making, uses an infrared camera to capture the flight path of a rare bat at night.

A selection of entries from this year’s competition, which is open for submissions until November 15

Some of the winning images from the Royal Observatory Greenwich's annual competition.

The Kodak moment is gone, but today Fujifilm thrives after a massive reorganization. Here is a detailed analysis based on firsthand accounts from top

Google’s Pixel phones have already changed and improved smartphone photography dramatically, but the latest addition to them might be the biggest leap forward yet. Night Sight is the next evolution of Google’s computational photography, combining machine learning, clever algorithms, and up to four seconds of exposure to generate shockingly good low-light images.

What happens when a new technology is so precise that it operates on a scale beyond our characterization capabilities? For example, the lasers used at INRS produce ultrashort pulses in the femtosecond range (10-15 s), which is far too short to visualize. Although some measurements are possible, nothing beats a clear image, says INRS professor and ultrafast imaging specialist Jinyang Liang. He and his colleagues, led by Caltech's Lihong Wang, have developed what they call T-CUP: the world's fastest camera, capable of capturing 10 trillion (1013) frames per second.

Before New York City became the shining metropolis that we know today, with its glass and concrete skyscrapers and wide, shop-filled avenues, much of it was quiet farmland. In fact, prior to the mid-1800s, most of the area that would become New York City was all but undeveloped. Before European colonization, the area we now know as New York was inhabited by a number of Algonquian tribes living in small communities.

Nowadays Weegee is regarded by most art critics as an artist of permanent significance, one whose work is thought all the more valuable precisely because, like the gangster movies of the ’30s that are mirrored in his crime-scene photos, it was created for commercial purposes. By Terry Teachout.

Today’s house-proud animals are joining the luxury property market

Guardian photographer Christian Sinibaldi tours the world’s last Polaroid film factory, in the Netherlands, the only remaining factory still making film for the much-loved instant cameras

Dick pics are widely considered a form of sexual violence. But while that is often true, they can also be funny, sexy and playful. Apparently, some straight guys even send them to each other.

A Missouri family recently got a taste of internet stardom after sharing a series of hilariously bad “professional photograph” that they had paid just under $250 for.

On March 3rd, during a large East Coast winter storm, I headed to the ocean to capture some wave action. My travels eventually took me to Great Island Commons in New Castle, New Hampshire, where Whaleback Lighthouse is prominently featured .8 miles offshore. I was hoping to capture big waves crashing around the lighthouse, and Mother Nature didn’t disappoint.

The shortlist for the coveted Bird Photographer of the Year awards has been announced by Nature Photographers and the British Trust for Ornithology

The Curiosity rover has sent back some beautiful new images of the foothills of Mount Sharp in Gale crater on Mars.

Hundreds of thousands of cranes gather every year at this spot.

The Bird Photographer of the Year competition has just announced its shortlist, featuring some of the most beautiful and visually compelling images of birds from around the world.

The owner of a camera lost at sea for over two years — which turned up on a beach in Taiwan this week — has been identified as a university student in Tokyo after an online search.

Years of practice have made Paul Marcellini one of the state's best landscape photographers.

Scotland has the highest percentage of people with red hair in the world. Photographer Kieran Dodds, in his body of work Gingers, asked some of them what it meant to be a redhead

Photographer Robert Dawson criss-crossed the continent to document its libraries.

The captivating scenes are caused by a bloom in bioluminescent algae.

by Brian Johnston

Mississippi, murder, and William Eggleston’s “Red Ceiling.” By Will Stephenson

For the past two years, the spacecraft has been taking photos of Jupiter. Here are the best shots. By Brian Resnick.

Its body design became the basis for future cameras

One possibility is that the effort of taking a photo tricks us into thinking we've already paid adequate attention to the target of the photo. By Alex Fradera

See the winning photos from the 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year.

View the winning photographs from National Geographic's 2018 travel photographer competition.

Images by the photographer, spanning across all of Poland and taken for a period of 20 years, reveal the interiors of Polish homes, the objects in fashion, and what was considered valuable by people in the late 20th century.

Last year’s release of iOS 11 from Apple was all about turning the iPad into a full-fledged PC, but there remained a set of core desktop apps that were still stubbornly off Apple’s mobile platform, the full-fat version of Photoshop being key among them. Today, however, a report from Bloomberg reveals that Adobe is working on correcting that omission. Adobe is said to be planning to announce the release of the full version of Photoshop for the iPad in October of this year and to release the app in 2019.

The work of collaborative artists Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo & Andrew Mroczek, rooted in LGBT themes including gay and transgender rights and equality in Latin America and worldwide. Currently focused on the LGBTQ communities of Peru, their work features photography, sculpture, film and mixed-media installation.

It is sad for our country that this is happening. It's even sadder that it has barely been talked about. By Vincent David Johnson.