Attitude, by Mary Ellen Mark
Mary Ellen Mark’s subjects often projected an unusual degree of self-confidence. A new exhibit of portraits showcases her intimate relationship to the people she photographed.Read more »
Credit Mary Ellen Mark, courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery
Mary Ellen Mark’s subjects often projected an unusual degree of self-confidence. A new exhibit of portraits showcases her intimate relationship to the people she photographed.Read more »
Mary Ellen Mark’s subjects often projected an unusual degree of self-confidence. A new exhibit of portraits showcases her intimate relationship to the people she photographed.Read more »
Mary Ellen Mark’s subjects often projected an unusual degree of self-confidence. A new exhibit of portraits showcases her intimate relationship to the people she photographed.Read more »
Credit Courtesy of Neil Latham and Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
Neil Latham’s study of racehorses, shot at rare proximity and at all hours, reminds a longtime racing fan of the animals’ majesty.Read more »
Credit Carrie Boretz
New York was rough in the 1970s, which was a mighty lure for Carrie Boretz, who found moments of grace and humor ready for the taking.Read more »
Credit Monique Jaques/WaterAid
What few gains had been made in maternal health in Sierra Leone have been undone by a health care system decimated by the Ebola outbreak.Read more »
Credit Stephen Dupont/Contact Press Images
A Syrian freelance photographer covering the conflict in his homeland for Reuters took the top award in this year’s Overseas Press Club contest. Read more »
Credit Furkan Temir
The flood of Kurdish refugees into Turkey compelled a young photographer to ditch school and travel to the border with Syria, where he documented Kurdish fighters clashing with the Islamic State. Read more »
Credit Stephen Ferry
In “La Batea,” Stephen and Elizabeth Ferry look at the grueling work of traditional miners in Colombia and the legacy of the obsession with precious metals.Read more »
Credit Ruth Kaplan
Ruth Kaplan spent a dozen years visiting bathhouses making pictures of “epic nudes” that plumb how people express themselves though their bodies.Read more »
Credit Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
New technologies like virtual reality are creating new opportunities for reporters and visual journalists to explore and innovate.Read more »
Credit Nazik Armenakyan
Nazik Armenakyan has made it her mission to document the dwindling number of people who survived the Armenian genocide a century ago.Read more »
Credit Kenneth Josephson
Living in the Second City may have prevented Kenneth Josephson from becoming famous, but the conceptual photographer has a new book and exhibit that underscore his place as a pioneer. Read more »
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Credit Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
Credit Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press
Credit Adam Ferguson for 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 lensnytimes@gmail.com.