PHOTOS: 'Chicano Eats' Food Blog Dishes Up Bicultural Flavors
Whenever Esteban Castillo visited his grandparents in Colima, Mexico, he'd sit by his grandfather's taco stand and watch him cook. He'd also see his grandmother carry her homemade cheeses on her back...
View ArticleGallery Gives Movie Star Marlene Dietrich The Big-Picture Treatment
One of the most glamorous creatures ever to grace the silver screen is back in pictures at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. A dazzling new exhibition features dozens of photographs of...
View ArticleWhere Dead Smartphones Go, Kumail Nanjiani, Fleeing to Greece, A Wild...
Sue Williams and Hilary Klotz Steinman discuss their documentary, “Death by Design: The Dirty Secret of Our Digital Addiction." Actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani and his wife, writer Emily V. Gordon...
View ArticleA Forgotten Camera Reveals Hidden Treasure from History
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. In our modern world, cameras are everywhere, but take a trip back to the not-so-distant past, and you'll see a reality that is very...
View ArticleHow a Wildlife Photographer Gets Up Close With His Dangerous Subjects
Photographer Michael Nichols and author/editor Melissa Harris join us to discuss their book A Wild Life: A Visual Biography of Photographer Michael Nichols. Nichols has spent decades photographing...
View ArticleVideo: Japan's 'Purikura' Photo Booths Offer Snapchat-Like Filters
Japanese purikura photo booths, which produce selfies that you can decorate and print out, predate Snapchat filters by at least a decade. At about $3.50 a pop, they are still attracting hordes of Tokyo...
View ArticleDoes A Newly Discovered Photo Show Amelia Earhart Survived A Crash Landing?
It has been 80 years since Amelia Earhart vanished while trying to become the first female pilot to fly around the world, and her 1937 disappearance has become one of the great mysteries of our...
View ArticleThe Epic 43,000 Mile Road Trip to Every National Park
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.If you're looking to crank your summer travel plans up a notch, look no further that your local national park.Stefanie Payne, a communication...
View Article'Stains On The Sidewalk': Photographer Remembers Year Of Murders In Baltimore
In American cities, the murder rate has kept rising over the last couple of years. One of the most violent cities in the U.S. is Baltimore.That's where 22-year-old photographer Amy Berbert lives. She's...
View ArticleEnrique Martínez Celaya — The Whisper of the Order of Things
A philosopher’s questioning and a scientist’s eye shape Enrique Martínez Celaya’s original approach to art and to life. A world-renowned painter who trained as a physicist, he’s fascinated by the...
View ArticleHow Temporary Blindness Taught Teju Cole To See
Going blind in one eye would unnerve anyone. And for a photographer, it’s especially upsetting. But Teju Cole found that his Big Blind Spot Syndrome taught him a new way to look at the world — and...
View ArticleHow To Preserve Your Polaroid
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View ArticleIs It Ever Okay to Take a Picture of a Stranger on the Subway?
You've probably seen them: pictures of the manspreaders, the bag-splayers, or the generally uncourteous subway riders, showing up in your social media feeds after being surreptitiously photographed by...
View ArticleWhat We Saw At Newport Folk 2017
Moments of unexpected magic are the Newport Folk Festival's calling card. The festival typically sells out well before its lineup is even announced — but the official lineup is more of a rough...
View ArticleFrom Family Snapshots To NASA Photos, Archivists Aim To Solve Preservation...
When was the last time you had a roll of film developed? For many, our digital devices are datebook, rolodex and camera all in one. But moments captured on film are finding a second life through a...
View ArticleThis photographer took pictures of every one of her Facebook friends to...
Mary Bok, Camden, Maine.On New Years’ Eve 2010, as Tanja Hollander wrote a letter to a friend deployed to Afghanistan while also instant messaging with a friend in Jakarta, she marveled at the...
View ArticleWhat Hiram Maristany Saw Looking Through The Lens At El Barrio
Photographer Hiram Maristany first picked up a camera as a teenager in 1959 at the urging of a social worker named Dan Murrow. He used it to document his world in El Barrio — or East Harlem — a close...
View ArticleWhat it’s like to be President Trump’s White House photographer
Chief Official White House Photographer Shealah Craighead photographs President Donald J. Trump during a tour of the Sistine Chapel, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, in Vatican City. Photo by Andrea Hanks From...
View ArticleNew Project Aims to Find Hope Through Photography
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. From Army captains who are coming back from battle, to transgender people on the brink of transitioning, finding hope can be as simple as...
View ArticleA Year Spent Diving from St. Lawrence to West Palm Beach
Writer, photographer and diver Jerry Shine talks about his book A Year Underwater: Twelve Months of Diving, Fraternizing with Marine Life, and Just Having a Great Time, from the St. Lawrence River to...
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