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Gripping Images Capture More Than Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Over 80 National Geographic photographers in dozens of countries documented the universality of grief and loss around the world.
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The Breathtaking Images That Won the 2019 National Geographic Travel Contest
An arctic village blanketed in snow in Greenland; a pensive boy at a river sunrise in India; and a colossal wave seconds before crashing. The winners of the 2019 National Geographic Travel Contest in their own words.
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Confronting Mass Extinction with Poignant, Intimate Portraits of Animals
Since 2005, Joel Sartore has been taking portraits of every single animal species living in Earth's various zoos and nature preserves.
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National Geographic Announces Winners of Travel Photographer of the Year
The top prize goes to Sergio Tapiro Velasco for his photograph of Mexico's Volcán de Colima erupting at night.
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The First Flash Photographs of the Natural World At Night
With a magnesium flash triggered by a tripwire, George Shiras shot some of the world's first nocturnal wildlife photographs.
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Unearthed Photographs from National Geographic’s Archive
The arresting images that have thrived on the pages of National Geographic since 1888 are just a fraction of the photographs taken for the magazine.
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Sleeping to Dream
Lucid dreaming — in which the dreamer becomes aware she is dreaming and can actively participate in and alter the narrative — has long been a source of fantastical imagery for artists, Salvador Dali being the most famous.
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Tigers Forever: Can Nature Photography Inspire Conservation?
"If I win, the tiger wins," photographer Steve Winter said at his talk earlier this week at the Explorers Club in New York. For two decades he's traced tigers through the forests of Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, and India, on a quest for images that would stop people in their tracks, to spend more t
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Women of Vision: The Female Photographers of National Geographic
Since Jodi Cobb joined National Geographic in 1977 as the magazine's first female staff photographer, more and more women photographers have contributed images to the publication in essays on human rights, conflict zones, the minds of teenagers, epidemics, life in the remote corners of the world, an
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Ostrich Egg Globe Might Be Earliest Depiction of the Americas
The New York Public Library's 1510 Hunt-Lenox Globe better watch its bronze throne because a new globe portends to be the oldest to show the Americas. And it has the curious advantage of being carved into the round form of an ostrich egg.
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National Geographic Sours on Instagram, for Good Reason
National Geographic, one of the most creative media institutions to embrace Instagram, is suspending its use of the social photo-sharing platform over the terms of service that have the internet in an uproar. The magazine announced the news with, what else, an Instagram post.