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Photo exhibit documents women's protest against Iran's hijab law

‘Witness 1979’ is an unprecedented exhibition by Iranian photographer Hengameh Golestan on show in London. The photos, never published before

24/09/2015

France

Les Rencontres d'Arles: pictures from the edge

18/09/2015

World News

[PHOTOS] When the ground literally falls away beneath you

Every now and again the ground can literally disappear from beneath our feet. It can happen suddenly or over time when carbonate sedimentary rock is

10/09/2015

World News

International landscape photo contest 2015 winners announced

More than 2,600 entrants submitted entries to the International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. Organisers say the best 101 images

08/09/2015

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Up, Up and Away in Covent Garden with an exhibition of thousands of balloons

Covent Garden in central London is ‘hosting’ a unique exhibition of hundreds of thousands of balloons. It is the work of French photographer Charles

04/09/2015

USA

NYC couples re-enact WW2 kiss

Hundreds of couples have descended upon New York’s Times Square to reenact the famous photograph of a kiss between a sailor and a woman celebrating

15/08/2015

USA

Gallery: Photos emerge of Cheney and Bush at White House on 9/11

27/07/2015

Russia

Russia warns of the deadly dangers when taking a selfie

Russia’s interior ministry has launched a campaign to warn people of the dangers of taking selfies. The country has suffered a spate of accidents

09/07/2015

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Audrey Hepburn unseen at the National Portrait Gallery

The National Portrait Gallery in London is paying tribute to Audrey Hepburn. A collection of previously unseen and intimate family-owned photos are

09/07/2015

World News

The bitter fight for Freedom of Panorama

08/07/2015

Culture news

Rolling Stones 'Exhibitionism' shows off in London

The Rolling Stones have compiled an exhibition looking back at a glittering career that spans five decades. The items on show include guitars, set

08/07/2015

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'Capa in Color' beautifies Budapest

The colour work of famed photographer Robert Capa. is celebrated in a new book and exhibition in Budapest, the place of his birth in 1913. One of the

12/06/2015

World News

Photojournalist makes a call on the past with mobile phone

12/06/2015

Russia

Drunken man takes selfie and topples Lenin

A Russian man has destroyed a statue of Lenin while attempting to take a ‘selfie’. According to law enforcement in the Kemerovo, or south-central

04/06/2015

World News

The long (and sometimes dangerous) walk to school [PHOTOS]

For many children, walking to and from school is not such a simple task. In areas ravaged by conflict or disasters – both man-made and natural – the

02/06/2015

World News

Who would live in a house like this? 9 bizarre abodes in photos

22/05/2015

China

We will not be moved! Resistance to China's urban spread [PHOTOS]

21/05/2015

Culture news

Berlin exhibition investigates post-WWII Europe

How did Europe deal with post-war life? That’s the question a new exhibition in Berlin tries to answer. Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the

30/04/2015

Culture news

Another side of Marilyn on show in new Wroclaw exhibition

Poland opens its Milton Greene fashion photo archive to reveal a fresh and personal new look at the Hollywood icon and many of her friends and colleagues of the period in over 3000 shots

21/04/2015

World News

Politicians just can't resist posing for selfies

10/04/2015