Photography

12 stunning images of nature courtesy the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021 contest

Having been run for 57 years by the Natural History Museum in London, the competition showcases exceptional nature photography from around the globe

World Photography Day 2021: Date, history, significance of day celebrating art of capturing images

Every year, World Photography Day is marked on 19 August. The day commemorates the importance of cameras and photography in our lives

Danish Siddiqui's passing is a reminder of the high price one pays for showing the truth

Danish's photographs were not just documentation, but the work of someone who went down to eye-level, as they say in photographic parlance.

An Oral History of the COVID-19 Crisis: 'I realised that documenting the truth, deaths in hospitals was my duty'

This account is part of Firstpost’s Oral History Project of the COVID-19 Crisis in India. The Oral History Project aims to be an ongoing compendium of individual experiences of the pandemic, with a focus on one significant day in our respondents’ lives during this time.

Nature and humans collide in these eight winning images from the 2021 BigPicture Competition

The annual photography competition encourages photographers to contribute their work to celebrate Earth's rich diversity and inspire action to protect it.

AP photographers bag two major Pulitzers this year; captured pandemic pain and US civil unrest in pictures

The Associated Press' chief photographer in Spain, Emilio Morenatti, won the feature photography prize. Work by 10 AP photographers won the breaking news prize.

In photos: The vibrant 'tube houses' that dominate Hanoi's streets and are considered vital by urban architects

Tall, thin and brightly coloured, Hanoi's "tube houses" dominate the city's streets as nine million people compete for space in the bustling capital.

World Press Photo 2021: Antonio Faccilongo's Habibi depicting struggles of Palestinian families gets best photo story award

The World Press Photo Foundation announced the results of the 64th annual Photo Contest and the 11th annual Digital Storytelling Contest on 15 April

World Press Photo 2021 contest winners include Mads Nissen's First Embrace, Antonio Faccilongo's Habibi

This year, the competition received 74,470 entries from 4315 photographers across the globe. The winners' list comprises 45 photographers from 28 countries, of which 35 are first-time winners.

The Sunil Gupta interview | 'What does it mean to be a gay Indian man? This is the question ever present in my work'

A retrospective on Gupta at The Photographers’ Gallery in London draws from work created over five decades of documenting his own sexual awakening, a growing political consciousness around issues of race and migration, and the experience of living with HIV.