The Winners of the Smithsonian Magazine's 2015 Photo Contest
Smithsonian magazine has just announced the winning entries in their 13th annual photo contest.
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Laurie Dieffembacq / AFP / Getty In Photos: The Explosions in Brussels
Blasts in the city’s airport and a subway station have killed dozens and injured many more.
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Roslan Rahman / AFP / Getty Turning Off the Lights: Earth Hour 2016
On March 19, iconic landmarks and skylines were plunged into darkness as people and businesses around the world participated in Earth Hour 2016.
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Craig Easton Off the Side of the Road to Mandalay
Photos of the enterprising and colorful gas stations capitalizing on Burma's budding energy industry.
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Ricardo Moraes / Reuters Photos of the Week: 3/12-3/18
A human-robot embrace in Germany, a 3-D portrait of Vladimir Putin at a library for the blind in Siberia, dangerous levels of pollution in the skies above Mexico City, and much more.
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© Joel Sartore / National Geographic Building a Photo Ark
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore has spent the past ten years working on a massive project to document the world’s biodiversity, called the Photo Ark.
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Jitendra Prakash / Reuters The Daily Struggle for Clean Water
The United Nations estimates that 650 million people worldwide currently have no access to safe water, placing them at risk of infectious diseases and premature death.
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David McNew / Getty Signs of Spring
These photos show festivals and glimpses of the new season from around the world, as we shake off the winter and greet the spring.
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Pascal Vossen Inside a Ski Resort for Refugees
More than 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle, an out-of-season Swedish retreat became a temporary home for 600 migrants.
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Beawiharta / Reuters Photos of the Week: 3/5-3/11
A tiny island disputed between Uganda and Kenya, a super bloom in Death Valley, an arctic weasel in Norway, a Major Lazer concert in Cuba, Olympic training in Rio de Janeiro, a dramatic calving of Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier, and much more.
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Mainichi Shimbun / Reuters 5 Years Since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
Five years ago a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern shore—the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to have hit Japan.
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Oli Scarff / AFP / Getty Scenes From Underground
Caves and tunnels have always been part of human life.
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Peer von Wahl / NIS / Minden Pictures / Corbis Svalbard: Halfway Between Norway and the North Pole
A Norwegian group of islands located about 650 miles (1,050 kilometers) from the North Pole—the northernmost year-round settlement on Earth, with a population of about 2,200.
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© Smithsonian.com Smithsonian Magazine's 2015 Photo Contest
The editors of Smithsonian magazine have just announced the finalists in their 13th annual photo contest, selected from more than 46,000 entries sent in from 168 countries.
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Joseph Eid / AFP / Getty Newlyweds in the Ruins: A Syrian Wedding Photo Shoot
In Homs, Syria, where entire city blocks have been reduced to rubble by years of civil war, a Syrian wedding photographer thought of using the destruction of the city as a backdrop for pictures of newlywed couples “to show that life is stronger than death.”
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