Ruby Washington, the first African-American female staff photographer for The New York Times, passed away in September 2018.
Since 1851, the New York Times has been on the ground reporting stories from around the globe that no one else was telling. How we tell those stories has changed, but our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world has remained constant.
The New York Times photographers in and around Ukraine have chronicled the devastation and misery wrought by the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II.
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New York City is home to a diverse array of spiritual and religious communities. In 2022 New York Times staff photographer James Estrin spent months exploring some of them, documenting more than 30 places of worship throughout the city.
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The man behind many of the nation’s beloved public spaces, Frederick Law Olmsted, was born 200 years ago. His creations are more essential to modern American life than ever.
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New York Times photographers in Ukraine have captured the horrors of war.
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Michelle V. Agins has been a staff photographer for the New York Times for more than 30 years. This retrospective celebrates her work and her ongoing commitment to the photojournalism community.
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The service industry jobs that keep New York City’s heart ticking took a huge hit during the pandemic, leaving many people struggling. Meet some of those workers.
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What does love look like in a time of anti-Asian hate? Asian and Asian-American photographers respond.
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Single Mothers by Choice documents four women as they struggle to get pregnant, navigate the adoption and foster-care systems, and juggle a new life with children—all on their own.
Over the course of a few days in March, The New York Times sent out dozens of photographers around the world to capture images of once-bustling public plazas, beaches, fairgrounds, and more. The photographs tell a similar story: emptiness proliferates like the virus.
In early June, The New York Times asked more than two dozen Black photographers to create self-portraits, whatever that phrase meant to them. This collection of those photos presents an intimate perspective from artists who are motivated by their own reality.
#ThisIs18 aims to capture what life is like for 18-year-old girls across oceans and cultures. The project was shot entirely by other young women, ages 17 to 22.
Through rarely published photographs from The New York Times’s archive, viewers can travel back in time to experience the streets and buildings of Photoville’s neighborhood, before becoming the DUMBO we see and experience today.
The first woman was sworn into Congress in 1917, 128 years after the first U.S. Congress convened. One hundred and two years later, one has become 131—the number of women serving in both chambers of the 116th Congress.
Ruby Washington, the first African-American female staff photographer for The New York Times, passed away in September 2018.
#ThisIs18 aims to capture what life is like for 18-year-old girls across oceans and cultures. The project was shot entirely by other young women, ages 17 to 22.
Past Tense: California is the first project from the archival storytelling project of The New York Times.
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Don Hogan Charles was the first black photographer to be hired by The New York Times, in 1964. In his more than four devades at The Times, Don photographed politicians, celebrities, fashion, food and everyday life in New York City. But he may be best remembered for the work that earne him early acclaim: his photographs of key moments and figures of the civil rights era.
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Idled by a newspaper strike in the summer of 1978, eight New York Times staff photographers were enlisted by the New York City parks commissioner to document a summer in the city’s parks.
Through intimate photographs and dramatic drone footage, Josh Haner explores this pressing reality, bringing to light the life-changing effects of climate change in communities around the globe.
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A celebration of the work of the preeminent street photographer Bill Cunningham.
Daniel Berehulak, a freelance photographer who works mostly for The New York Times, spent four months last year covering the Ebola crisis in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. As he covered the story’s full arc, he took few breaks and many precautions.
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Josh Haner’s assignment was straightforward: spend several weeks or months with one of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, and make New York Times readers feel like they are there with him during recovery.
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Over more than a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan, in Somalia and Libya, capturing America’s wars, the Arab Spring and African civil conflict, Tyler Hicks has come to personify combat photography.
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The New York Times will present a group exhibition that spans from the 9/11 disaster to the present, with emphasis on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It aims to show the scope of their toll, both at home and abroad.
The exhibition will include work by photographers Lynsey Addario, Stephen Crowley, Tyler Hicks, Chang Lee, and Joao Silva among others.
Learn MorePhotoville’s 10 Under 10 featuring presentations from The New York Times, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Abrons Arts Center, Magnum Foundation, Pulitzer Center, Indigenous Photo, United Nations Women, Joseph Rodriguez, The Darkroom Masters, and National Geographic featuring live music from Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project.
Learn MoreNew York Times photographers and editors will share highlights from their coverage of some of the year’s most visually compelling stories. Some of the photographers and editors who created Sources of Self-Regard: Self-Portraits From Black Photographers Reflecting on America will discuss their work.
Learn MoreFeaturing: Malin Fezehai, Stephen Hiltner, Walter Thompson-Hernández, Joanna Nikas, Kathy Ryan, Jessica Dimson, Philip Montgomery, Elizabeth Bick, and the work of Don Hogan Charles.
Learn MoreMeet the women behind #ThisIs18, a New York Times photography project exploring girlhood around the world.
Learn MorePast Tense: California is the first project from the archival storytelling project of The New York Times.
Learn MoreJoin us for a discussion of #ThisIs18 an exhibition featuring photographs of girls aged 18 around the world.
Learn MoreJoin New York Times photographers and editors as they share highlights from our photographic coverage of some of the year’s most visually powerful stories.
Learn MoreJoin The New York Times’ Lens blog for a night of projections featuring photographers from around the world. We’ve gone through our archives to curate a selection of some of our favorite work featured on Lens, including photos by Whitney Curtis, Eli Reed, Ernesto Bazan, Nancy Borowick, Phil Knott, Martha Cooper, Joni Sternbach and New York Times staff photographers.
Learn MoreYou’re invited on a photo hunt with the @nytimes Instagram team. On Saturday, Sept. 12, we’ll post a series of clues that will lead you through @Photoville and @brooklynbridgepark. Your task: Find the answers and photograph them. Post your pictures on Instagram with the hashtag #NYTPhotoHunt. We’ll be watching!
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