Michael Sanchez was testing out his new camera when he happened upon a feathered subject. The blue rock-thrush he photographed on the coast of northern Oregon last week has excited the birding world.

Photographer Nour El Massry captures ethereal images of Egyptian landscapes, interiors and architecture in one of the world's largest megacities.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with photojournalist Ivan McClellan about his new book documenting Black cowboys, Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture.

A year of war has torn through Sudan, causing devastation and more than 8 million people to be displaced.

A new exhibition and book honor the memory of the Pulitzer Prize-winning German photojournalist who was killed on April 4, 2014, while on assignment for The Associated Press in Afghanistan.

Some people with expensive photo equipment are hoping to get the perfect shot during Monday's total solar eclipse. But for the rest of us, a cellphone camera is what we have to work with.

Anthropocene refers to the age of humans — the things we've done to Earth. Geologists just rejected a proposal to declare an official "Anthropocene epoch." But everyone agrees: Damage has been done.

For International Day of Happiness, photographers sent us pictures of a Syrian boy who finds joy caring for farm animals, Ukrainian girls on a trampoline, music lovers grooving to the blues and more.

Johnson studied with Ansel Adams in the 1940s and became known as one of the foremost photographers of San Francisco's Black urban culture.

Photographer Evan Russel and fine artist James McGrew set out to capture an elusive natural phenomenon. But as they discovered, nature can be fickle.

We live in a rapidly aging world. A new global photography project captures the lives behind the statistics by documenting the lives of 72-year-olds — the world's median life expectancy today.

Nearly 100 years ago, Lange chronicled the destitution and desperation of The Great Depression. An exhibition of her work at the National Gallery of Art speaks to the present day migrant crisis.

Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys and her husband, rapper/producer Kasseem Dean are also art collectors. A new exhibition highlights the contemporary Black artists who've caught their attention.

There have been touching moments — sometimes away from the headlines, and the front lines — that have moved the world this year.

Pictures of happiness, of a disappearing Sierra Leonean island, of a pair of flip-flop-clad feet poking out of the Indian Ocean surf: Here are our photo stories from 2023 that we won't forget.