Tag: Photography

  • Booooooom x Capture Photography Festival: Sami Farra Interview

    If you had to choose three life moments that have shaped who you are today, what would they be? If I had to choose three life moments that have shaped who I am, I would start with the Arab Springs and the beginning of the Syrian Civil War. I grew up in Switzerland, but my read more

    Booooooom x Capture Photography Festival: Sami Farra Interview
  • Dueling Hares and Leaping Toads Top the 2026 British Wildlife Photography Awards

    Is there anything more soothing than a sleeping baby swan—known as a cygnet? Or anything more illustrative of the relationship between nature and urban development in the U.K. than the red fox, which are seen in neighborhoods as often as in the wild? For this year’s British Wildlife Photography Awards (BWPA), photographers from around Great read more

    Dueling Hares and Leaping Toads Top the 2026 British Wildlife Photography Awards
  • Zanele Muholi, South African ‘Visual Activist,’ Wins the World’s Top Photography Prize

    Zanele Muholi, an acclaimed photographer and activist whose work celebrates the queer Black experience in South Africa and beyond, has won the Hasselblad Award, the world’s leading photography prize, which carries a cash award of SEK 2,000,000 (approximately $218,000). As part of the award, Muholi will receive a solo exhibition at the Hasselblad Center in read more

    Zanele Muholi, South African ‘Visual Activist,’ Wins the World’s Top Photography Prize
  • A Rare White Whale Sighting Tops the 2026 World Nature Photography Awards

    Among humpback whales, which can grow upwards of 60 feet long and weigh up to 40 tons, instances of albinism are exceedingly rare. But when these otherworldly all-white mammals appear—such as the beloved Migaloo that was first spotted in 1991 off Australia’s east coast—they inspire wonder. Marine photographer Jono Allen captured a unique shot of read more

    A Rare White Whale Sighting Tops the 2026 World Nature Photography Awards
  • See the Best of Nearly Half a Million Entries to the Sony World Photography Awards

    For its 19th edition, the Sony World Photography Awards welcomed over 430,000 submissions for its Open competition from photographers in more than 200 countries and territories around the globe. Ten categories, ranging from portraiture to landscapes to travel, encompass the staggering breadth and beauty of nature and society captured throughout 2025. The contest has announced read more

    See the Best of Nearly Half a Million Entries to the Sony World Photography Awards
  • Rare Glimpses of Diverse Marine Life Take the Stage in This Year's Ocean Art Photography Contest

    Off the deep waters of Kumejima, Japan, Steven Kovacs captured an image that would be awarded Best in Show for the 2025 Ocean Art Photography Contest. Traveling to the Okinawa prefecture in the hopes of encountering a scarcely documented species of larval goosefish, Kovacs spent nearly two weeks blackwater diving before photographing the rare moment. read more

    Rare Glimpses of Diverse Marine Life Take the Stage in This Year's Ocean Art Photography Contest