Photography

July 24, 2020

He’s 83, She’s 84, and They Model Other People’s Forgotten Laundry

TAICHUNG, Taiwan — At Wansho Laundry in central Taiwan, most dirty clothes dropped off to be steamed or washed or dry-cleaned end up right back in […]
July 24, 2020

Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’

A Black youth lays bare-chested in a field of wildflowers. Three others play double Dutch, framed from below, the blues of their jeans and tees fuzzing […]
July 22, 2020

When Brad Photographed Gwyneth

The relationship between photographer and subject has been fraught since long before Susan Sontag characterized it as part of the “shady commerce between art and truth” […]
July 6, 2020

What We Learned in 100 Days of Life Interrupted

Young people in the United States are living through interesting times, as the coronavirus pandemic uproots the country’s economy and changes what college will look like. […]
June 1, 2020

Finding Euphoria in Bangkok’s Food Scene

With travel restrictions in place worldwide, we’ve launched a new series, The World Through a Lens, in which photojournalists help transport you, virtually, to some of […]
May 22, 2020

First Inklings of Fame

It is graduation season, and luminaries like Tina Fey, Oprah, Tom Hanks and Barack Obama are giving advice to graduates about starting their next chapter. Of […]
May 18, 2020

The Joy of Deleting My Many Mediocre Photos

ImageCredit…Illustration by Gray Beltran/The New York Times and Tanner Curtis/The New York Times The Joy of Deleting My Many Mediocre Photos By Like Frankenstein’s creature, they […]
April 29, 2020

Drawing Places, Capturing Memories

Mountains, clouds, shadows receding; a few minutes of pencil on paper and John had caught the moment’s essence while the rest of us scrabbled to take […]
April 17, 2020

All Dressed Up, With No Prom to Go To

A canceled date, another detention, an ill-timed zit: When you’re in high school, any number of problems can make it feel like the end of the […]
April 17, 2020

5 Artists to Follow on Instagram Now

Ask me most days what I think about Instagram, and I will tell you: a scourge. The social photo platform, and the cameraphone more generally, have […]