Mel Rosenthal’s South Bronx Activism and Engagement
A new exhibit of Mel Rosenthal’s seminal South Bronx images shows a photographer committed to the community he documented.Read more »
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A new exhibit of Mel Rosenthal’s seminal South Bronx images shows a photographer committed to the community he documented.Read more »
A new exhibit of Mel Rosenthal’s seminal South Bronx images shows a photographer committed to the community he documented.Read more »
A new exhibit of Mel Rosenthal’s seminal South Bronx images shows a photographer committed to the community he documented.Read more »
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Marcel Sternberger’s portraits of the famed Mexican artists manage to show his ability to deeply delve into the emotions and thoughts of his subjects.Read more »
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A series of photos enshrine Thai activists at sites where they were killed after opposing powerful economic interests.Read more »
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Photos from The New York Times and photographers from around the world. Read more »
Credit Timothy Archibald
Featuring deeply personal and everyday scenes, “Family Photography Now” hopes to spur viewers and photographers to examine stories that are literally closer to home, and often harder to tell.Read more »
Credit Juliana Sohn
The Korean tradition of the funerary portrait — images taken years before a person’s death — inspired Juliana Sohn to offer her services to Korean-Americans wishing to be remembered as they saw themselves.Read more »
Credit Frederick C. Baldwin and Wendy Watriss
A Houston museum’s Teen Council learned a lot about photography — and themselves — while curating a show of masterworks.Read more »
Credit Dean Wong
Dean Wong’s new book on Chinese-American communities is a powerful corrective to decades of reporting on neighborhoods often represented in the cultural mainstream as exotic, insular or irrelevant.Read more »
Credit Edwin Levick
Photographs from the archives of The New York Times depict the arrival of the likes of Fred and Adele Astaire and Noël Coward.Read more »
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Photos from The New York Times and photographers from around the world. Read more »
Credit Tasneem Alsultan
Rawiya, a collective of female Arab photographers, is challenging and changing how women in the region are portrayed.Read more »
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Credit Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
Credit Declan Walsh/The New York Times
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Lens is the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, presenting the finest and most interesting visual and multimedia reporting -- photographs, videos and slide shows. A showcase for Times photographers, it also seeks to highlight the best work of other newspapers, magazines and news and picture agencies; in print, in books, in galleries, in museums and on the Web. And it will draw on The Times's own pictorial archive, numbering in the millions of images and going back to the early 20th century. E-mail us tips, story suggestions and ideas to [email protected].