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An osprey in mid-hunt, the curious ways Americans celebrate Christmas and more best photos of the week.

Leap into the Void was unprecedented in photography. While some photographers used "straight" photography to seek emotional truths, Klein harnessed the inherent malleability of the medium's veracity.

On the outside, the mansion looks normal enough. But once you venture inside, that's when the fever dream truly begins.

Letizia Battaglia risked her life to tell these grim stories of violence and corruption, considering it her duty to show the brutal truth.

At the end of every year, I get to see, for the first time, all the things I've already seen.

Australia's south-east has been devastated by fires that have left nine people dead and hundreds of homes destroyed since Christmas.

Photographer Ira Cohen was an avant-garde pioneer, mastering his craft in the era's psychedelic art, rock and jazz scenes.

15 images, by 14 photographers, that have resonated most with us in the past decade.

The 2010s will be remembered as the decade when we could no longer deny climate change. Here's some extra proof.

In the award-winning "The Hands That Built This City," London-based Polly Tootal shows us the complexity of living in the liminal space through photographs of men who live in labor camps in the UAE.

These swirling patterns, likely caused by heat rising from the water below, look like frozen Jackson Pollock paintings.

America is lonely, unequal and worried. Also maybe needs a snack and a nap. Styles photographers went out to identify magic, anxiety and transformation in 2019.

Roughly 250,000 items are lost each year on the trains or platforms belonging to Deutsche Bahn. What happens to those items is decidedly German.

Over nearly two decades, Jo-Anne McArthur has documented the lives of unseen animals, including those used for food, fashion, entertainment, medical research and more.

The western models in Chinese ads, a journey from Missouri to New Mexico and more best photos of the week.

"I knew there wasn't much there, but there was even less than I had imagined," Koopmans says. The closest town, Rachel, has a population of around 50 people. Other than one alien-themed restaurant and bar, the Little A'Le'Inn, there's little for outsiders to do — this isn't Roswell.

Look back at the records, championships, retirements, scandals, tragedies and triumphs of the past 10 years in sports.

Photographer Mark Peterson spent a year documenting members of white-nationalist hate groups, a growing terrorist movement in America.

A photojournalist journeys to the Sahara-Sahel desert of remote northern Africa to catalogue the state of emergency on the ground.

The Documerica Project was put together by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1971 essentially to document the adverse effects of modern life on the environment.

The photographs were mainly taken in 2002 and 2003, when the Ugandan army chased the rebels from their bases in southern Sudan.

The past 10 years, seen in 55 powerful images.

In the heart of Queens lies one of New York City's most curious and untamed neighborhoods — a warren of squalid streets lined with flimsy auto repair shops that bustle with commerce and camaraderie.

This decade, scientists revealed so much about the universe. Here are some of their most inspirational accomplishments.

The photographer is a skateboarder, but there's not a board in sight.

An underwater glimpse of spawning salmon. A moon flying through Saturn's rings. An artificial lung printed in a lab. These were some of the best science photos of 2019.

A society photographer turns his lens on smartphone addiction, the truth and fiction on film sets in the south and more best photos of the week.

Despite the tidy beauty of the image, this was a frustrating year for North Dakota's corn farmers.

Ancient folklore in Europe's Alpine region speaks of Krampus, a frightening beast-like creature who looks for naughty children to punish in horrible ways. Cool!

Sifting through images of conflict, triumph and catastrophe from around the world, here are the photos to represent the year.

Santa is jovial, jolly and sexless with rolls of adipose flesh tucked into his ironed gatkes and an itch-free beard. Those other Santas, the imposters, we can't vouch for.

From #MeToo and Black Lives Matter to the Arab Spring and Hong Kong protests, here are the tremendous moments in activism that have defined this past decade.

If you've ever taken a walk in the woods, especially after a rain storm, you've definitely walked by one of photographer Alison Pollack's subjects. You may have even stepped on one. But unless you had a magnifying glass handy, you never even knew they were there.

Wanna feel exhausted? All of this happened within the last year.

The lands around the Yellow River are turning to sand.

The 2010s were defined by mass political upheaval, breakthroughs in science in technology, gun violence across the country, and a slew of natural disasters.

"It is interesting that radiation has shape. It has physicality. It operates at a specific frequency that can be recorded, if only we could place ourselves in a position to see it."

Cold War bunkers are dotted all over London, secretive locations that were intended to keep the arms of government moving in a worst case Cold War scenario.

The first items to pull Tom Kiefer's attention were 15 to 20 toothbrushes. At the time, he didn't think about photographing them. He just felt compelled to remove them from the trash.

National Geographic's 100 best images of the year-curated from 106 photographers, 121 stories, and more than two million photographs.

In June 1942, Office of War Information photographer Alfred T. Palmer visited Fort Knox, Kentucky, to photograph the 1st Armored Division making ready for battle.

If the Earth's average temperature increases 2 degrees Celsius by the year 2100, humankind will see catastrophic changes. For millions of people, this extreme warming is already reality, in places like Qatar, Colorado and Angola.

Size isn't everything when it comes to obtaining the megachurch aesthetic. You also need the flashy lights, the kitschy decor, that evangelical je ne sais quoi.

There's no shortage of natural beauty in Hawaii, from aquamarine beaches to majestic volcanoes. But to see it you have to look past all the human-built junk in the way: 46-story condos, 12-lane highways, and concrete viaducts blocking out the sun.

The abandoned cars in Hawaii's forests, the early Berlin techno years and more of the best photos of the week.

The tides of history are driven by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Hidden grandeur in Chicago's south side, the countercultural scenes in Soho and other best photos of the week.

John Beasley Greene photographed early European archaeology in Egypt — but he paid little attention to those who lived there.

For Getty Images photographer Mark Wilson, it was just another day at the office.

On the creation of the TransAmerica trail and the pleasures of navigating what the writer William Least Heat-Moon called "blue highways," the dirt roads of America.

In the 1950s, a photojournalist Lennart Nilsson captured the earliest stages of existence. His fetus images seized the public imagination — and sparked a controversy that has raged ever since.

The flooding in Fishlake, the disappearing launderettes of London and more best photos of the week.

In 1989, Michael Galinsky, then a 20-year-old student, took a month to cross the USA. Everywhere he went, he photographed America's shopping malls.

In Hong Kong, the protests have exposed bitter divisions — even among friends and families.

London blogger The Gentle Author's photographs of the growing trend to leave only the facade of a building while constructing a new one behind.

A series of rarely seen black-and-white photographs dating back to the Rolling Stones' first concert tour in 1963 will go on display in east London this month.

These mugshot portraits — we'd call them pictures but their style demands more — are part of 2500 "special photographs" taken by New South Wales Police Department photographers between 1910 and 1930.

"Venice is on its knees," the city's mayor said Wednesday.

A photographer set out to document single-story buildings — the anti-skyscrapers.

Photographer John Humble peels back the glamour and the glitz, to paint a revealing portrait of La-La Land during the 1980s.