Polar Bears and Sea Ice: The Context Behind a Swimming Film
A swimming polar bear is a powerful image. To understand the habitat question behind it, though, we need to look beyond whether the animal ...
From the archive
Vincent Brady’s Toroidal Sky: A Four-Camera Night-Sky Experiment
Vincent Brady’s panoramic night-sky work turns a familiar scene into something delightfully disorienting. Stars arc around the landscape, w...
Zak Anderegg’s Canyon Dog Rescue
A dog stranded in a deep canyon became the unexpected focus of Zak Anderegg’s outing. The archive records a rescue that began with noticing...
Thirty Photographs at Height: Perspective, Scale and the People Behind the Images
A tiny climber against a wall of rock and a person close to a rooftop edge create different sensations of height. This collection brings su...
A Snowy Evening in Bergen, Photographed by Espen Haagensen
A hiker and a snowy bench sit above the lights of Bergen in Espen Haagensen's winter photograph. The city glows below, while the foregr...
Iceland Aurora Films: Northern Lights from Sixty Locations
The Iceland Aurora Films project pairs northern lights with the landscapes underneath them. Water, buildings and a dark horizon give the ch...
Santra the Bear’s Stretches at Ähtäri Zoo
Santra, a brown bear photographed at Ähtäri Zoo in Finland, became an internet favourite for a very human-looking stretch. Seated on a rock...
Chara Sands: Dunes Beside the Mountains of Trans-Baikal
Golden dunes and snowy mountains share the frame at Chara Sands in Siberia. The contrast is striking because the sand appears within a nort...
Recovering a Truck from Upper Klamath Lake: The December 2013 Operation
On December 31, 2013, a truck left Highway 140 West and broke through the ice of Upper Klamath Lake in Oregon. The original account says th...
Cory Richards on Photography, Survival and Finding a Direction
A frost-covered face can tell a mountain story that a summit photograph cannot. In A Tribute to Discomfort, Cory Richards speaks about the ...
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Alaska’s Changing Glaciers: A Guide to the Historic Photo Pairs
Alaska’s glacier photographs become especially informative when an older view is paired with a later image from the same position. Mountain...
Anton Balazh’s Relief Maps: Nine Views of Mountain Country
Anton Balazh's relief illustrations pull mountain belts out of the flat page. Ridges, basins and coastlines become the main structure o...
Thierry Cohen’s Darkened Cities: Imagining Urban Skies Without Light Pollution
Thierry Cohen’s Darkened Cities pictures imagine a meeting that urban light often hides: a familiar skyline beneath a richly detailed night...