Choosing the New York Times Pictures of the Year
How do you go through 180,000 images to find a handful that sum up the year? Jeffrey Henson Scales tells us how.Read more »
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How do you go through 180,000 images to find a handful that sum up the year? Jeffrey Henson Scales tells us how.Read more »
How do you go through 180,000 images to find a handful that sum up the year? Jeffrey Henson Scales tells us how.Read more »
How do you go through 180,000 images to find a handful that sum up the year? Jeffrey Henson Scales tells us how.Read more »
Credit Fabian Fiechter
Fabian Fiechter was welcomed by the small group of elderly nuns he worked with in a German hospital, where he started photographing their way of life.Read more »
Credit Adger Cowans
Whether depicting the spectacle of people barreling forward in a snowstorm or the faces of his subjects, mostly black but also white, Adger Cowans’ lyrical images portray life as resonant with feeling.Read more »
Credit Cinzia Canneri
Though banned by the end of the 20th century, people exposed to asbestos in the 1970’s and 1980’s continue to be cut down by cancer and other illnesses related to the once-common material.Read more »
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Photos by The New York Times and by photographers from around the world. Read more »
Credit David Gonzalez
Jane Dickson’s subway mosaics of Times Square revelers are seen — and photographed — by countless passers-by each day. Now Lens is asking you to stop and take a picture of them.Read more »
Credit Anup Shah
Anup Shah spends his days patiently waiting to make up-close black-and-white portraits of the lions, leopards and wildebeests of Kenya’s Masai Mara, hoping to reveal something of their personalities. Read more »
Credit Norman Borden/Courtesy of Lost Rolls America
Ron Haviv’s own experience with finding long-lost rolls of unprocessed film led him to ask people to send him their own rolls of forgotten, undeveloped film.Read more »
Credit Oksana Yushko
Oksana Yushko has been photographing Russians who have fled big city life to get back to the land – and basics – along the Volga River. Read more »
Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times
Photos by The New York Times and by photographers from around the world.Read more »
Credit Giuseppe Nucci
Two decades after leaving his village in Italy’s Alto Molise region, Giuseppe Nucci returned to photograph local traditions and rituals before they disappeared.Read more »
Credit Josh Haner/The New York Times
Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times
Credit Mauricio Lima for The New York Times
Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
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].