Congratulations to Ronaldo Schemidt of Agence France-Presse, who received the World Press Photo of the Year award for his image of a man ablaze during a violent protest in Caracas
At 16, John Shearer clicked his shutter to capture one of the most poignant salutes in American history. A moment later, he was pulled from the stands by Secret Service agents.
The New York Times hired its first female staff photographer in 1973. By 1992, it had hired 9 more. These pathbreaking women changed The Times's view of the news.
You may not always notice it, but under Manhattan’s bright sunshine, in the canyons of skyscrapers, there stretches a secondary city that unfurls during the day and is gone by nightfall: a shadow metropolis that has inspired our photographers for decades
For years this photographer tried to forget the bloodshed he had seen at Tiananmen Square, and locked away his memories in 60 rolls of film. Now, he has decided to reveal those images.
“Who’d ever imagine a woman might be a photographer on a national newspaper?” Doreen Spooner wrote in her 2016 memoir. “A woman might be a tart or a monarch, but a press photographer?”