These photos show an honest portrait of working moms in America
Petrushka Bazin Larsen holds Ila, her five month old daughter, while working from home as Program Manager at The Laundromat Project, a non-profit offering art workshops in laundromats located in...
View ArticleCeci N'Est Pas Ice Cream (Actually It's Lard And Food Coloring)
So, maybe your Instagram pics of #delicious #foodporn never look nearly as scrumptiousas the real thing.Don't despair — it's not you. It's just that your food is too real.Professional food stylists use...
View ArticleArtisanal Plastic: Japan's Fake Food Is A Real Art
From the windows of restaurants, grocers and department stores, they beckon: Perfectly swirled ice cream in a cone, elaborately whipped cakes topped with red strawberries, a glistening piece of raw...
View ArticleSeeing Holocaust survivors’ stories in the books they left behind
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Finally tonight: Imagine finding a library from the 1940s, a window into the time before the deportation of some 70,000 Jews from what was then...
View ArticleBonus Track: Tavi Gevinson + Olivia Bee
Olivia Bee started taking pictures at 11 when she meant to enroll in a video course but ended up in a photography class. She became obsessed with the medium, and started posting her photos online —...
View ArticleMolly Ringwald + Laurie Simmons
Laurie Simmons began taking pictures professionally as a young woman in the 1970s. She shot homey scenes— kitchens stocked with food, living rooms with sofas and TVs. Except really tiny, because she...
View ArticleCan A Massive Stroke Change A Life — For The Better?
Part 5 of the TED Radio Hour episodeCrisis and ResponseAbout Kitra Cahana's TED TalkPhotojournalist and conceptual artist Kitra Cahana describes how her father dealt with a stroke that left his body...
View ArticleTo Access Her Big, Boxy Muse, Photographer Set Her Sights On Allen Ginsberg
Before cellphone cameras and Instagram, there was Polaroid. That funky-looking camera took hold as a social phenomenon nearly as quickly as the little, instant photographs they brought to life.For...
View ArticleThese photos prove you should look up on your daily commute
“Golden” from photographer Andy Yeung’s “Look Up” series, for which he photographed architecture in several countries from a dramatic perspective. Photo by Andy YeungPhotographer Andy Yeung’s message...
View ArticlePhotos: Why Everyone In Mali Wanted To Pose For The Late, Great Sidibe
Tributes continue to flood in for celebrated Malian portrait photographer Malick Sidibe, who died of complications from diabetes in Bamako on April 14, at 80.Mali's culture minister, N'Diaye...
View ArticleHow the Arctic Bears Witness to Our Warming Planet
Polar explorer, journalist and award-winning photographer Sebastian Copeland has captured breathtaking images of the North Pole. In Arctica: The Vanishing North, he hopes that the photographs...
View ArticleFor Oldest Armenians, A Glimpse Of A Homeland Lost But Not Forgotten
Wearing a black coat and holding a cane in his right hand, Movses Haneshyan stands in front of a life-size canvas. He stares at a winding road, a fir tree, distant mountains and a deep blue sky. He...
View ArticleIn 'Service,' A Celebrated Photographer Turns His Lens On U.S. Troops
As a celebrated portrait photographer, Platon Antoniou (who goes professionally by his first name) is well known for his close-up depictions of the powerful. He has aimed his camera at the faces of...
View ArticleApr. 30: Maurice Sendak At Portland Opera, Radiation City, Holly Andres,...
This week on State of Wonder, Maurice Sendak goes to the opera, retro-tinged indie pop with Radiation City, darkness and light with photographer Holly Andres, and Snohetta's big plans for Portland's...
View Article6 Sensational Photos From A Global Contest With 230,000 Entries
One photo of a pensive Congolese woman in her distinctive makeup could be mistaken for a Renaissance painting. Another, of a coal plant sending smoke plumes over a town in China, looks like a still...
View Article#NPRreads: Take Your Pick Of Space, Race Or Celebrity
#NPRreads is a weekly feature on Twitter and on The Two-Way. The premise is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using...
View ArticleThe Portrait Gets a Facelift
Alma Haser’s portraits are conventionally stylish and slick — until you look at the face. Or what’s left of it. Her series “Cosmic Surgery” disguises portrait subjects behind a geometric origami mask...
View ArticleAmerican Icons: "Untitled Film Stills"
These are snapshots of America's collective unconscious.Cindy Sherman grew up in the era when old movies filled our late nights. She wrote about going to a dinner party with her parents when she was a...
View ArticleA 'Relentless' Sports Photographer Explains How He Got His Shots
If you have a favorite sports photo from the past 60 years, it's very possible Neil Leifer took it: There's Muhammad Ali standing victorious over Sonny Liston ... Or there's Baltimore Colt Alan Ameche...
View ArticlePop Art Mash-Ups that Mesmerize
Paul Fuentes' pop art mash-ups combine familiar objects in unfamiliar ways. In his pastel-backed photos, this Mexico City-based graphic designer puts beards on balloons, turns limes into LPs, and wraps...
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