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From stuffed elephants to picnics under power lines, Leipzig-born photographer Frank Herfort coaxes magical, colour-saturated tableaux from intriguing slices of everyday Russian life
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Funnel web, trapdoor and redback spiders: their names alone are enough to provoke a thigh-clenching chill in most of us. A new publication attempts to change this
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Photographer Matt Writtle has spent years documenting the habits of a nation on its traditional day of rest, to see how that reflects the nature of society. Now he plans to publish the results as a crowdfunded book, Sunday: A Portrait of 21st Century England
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LA-based artist Carson Davis Brown covertly rearranges groceries, photographs them and has them made into blankets by Walmart’s personalised gift department
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When more than a million refugees made their perilous journeys westward from the Middle East, photojournalist Giles Duley made this deeply affecting record
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The Guardian picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world
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In the last instalment in our audio visual series on celebrated Australian photographs, Jonny Weeks talks to Mervyn Bishop about his iconic image of Gough Whitlam pouring earth into the hand of Indigenous elder Vincent Lingiari in 1975
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Photographer Sean Smith has spent the last few weeks covering Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour general election campaign
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China is the world’s biggest tea producer, producing 2.43m tonnes of tea last year
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Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana is among the nation’s most vulnerable to climate change, as the remaining land will be lost to rising sea levels
Those Dam birds: the urban herons of Amsterdam