photo essay

Steven Hirsch spent years capturing abstract images of Brooklyn’s toxic Gowanus Canal—tracing 146 years of industrial waste

With satellite images and photos taken by astronauts, NASA has released its own stunning version of the ABCs

Andrey Lomakin’s ’Amulet’ portrait series captures how the Maidan Revolution changed Ukranians’ view of guns

Scientists at the world’s biggest cyclotron, in Vancouver, invited amateurs to ‘lift the curtain’

Jamey Stillings’s stunning aerial images of solar power plants show the deep imprint of renewable energy on Earth’s geography

Peter Mather travelled to the Yukon’s Arctic coast, capturing blissful images of the Inuvialuit’s summer retreat: sun, games and all

Ma Hongjie spent years documenting what the Chinese keep secreted away inside their homes

What photographer Priscilla Hwang learned teaching at a school for Syrian refugees

Planet Labs launched 28 Dove satellites from the ISS and scanned the planet. Their mission? Scan the Earth every day to change it for the better.

Cristina Mittermeier has spent years documenting the Kayapo tribe in Brazil—and its fight to save a culture and way of life