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    Friday Photos: Still Lives

    Jul 17, 2020

    The good news: We got outside a little bit! The bad news: Photos suffused with a mood of quiet despair

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    My niece, Nisime, in her hiding place — my parents' closet. She is my muse during the quarantine days. <em>April 3, 2020. Tbilisi, Georgia</em>
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    GLOBAL PHOTOS: How Lockdown Has Changed My Life

    Jun 14, 2020
    We asked photographers to show us how their world has been altered by the pandemic. Their pictures show the many things that are lost for the moment — as well as new ways to find comfort and joy.
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    Friday Photos: World, Interrupted

    May 22, 2020

    We asked, “What’s the last ‘normal life’ photo in your phone before the shutdown?” You gave us a glimpse into a long-ago yesterday.

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    George Baraina Dos Santos, photographed at a camp for the homeless in Standfontein, Cape Town, South Africa. The city's homeless population were broght here by the government as part of the city's corona virus response, but many say they felt safer on th
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    PHOTOS: Lockdown In The World's Most Unequal Country

    Apr 21, 2020
    since South Africa went into lockdown in late March, the country's social divisions have been brought into sharper focus than ever.
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    On Feb. 4, beds were installed in the Wuhan Keting Exhibition Center. With 2,000 beds planned, the center will accommodate patients with mild cases of COVID-19.
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    PHOTOS: Scenes From The Epicenter Of The Coronavirus Outbreak

    Feb 15, 2020
    A photojournalist in Wuhan, China, portrays a city under quarantine in the midst of COVID-19.
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    Friday Photo: Chilling Geese, Basketball Blurs, and Sunny Reflections

    Jan 31, 2020

    More slices of life in the Las Vegas Valley from our shutterbugging staff

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    Goats and Soda
    Photo highlights from our top stories: Inuit parenting teaches kids how to control anger; a fisherman holds up a fish caught in Lake Malawi, where transactional sex is part of the fish trade; the Dandora Landfill in Nairobi, Kenya.
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    7 Of Our Most Popular Global Health And Development Stories In 2019

    Dec 20, 2019
    Secrets of Inuit parenting, a Mongolian heavy metal band and a controversial medical center in Uganda were among the topics that drew the most readers.
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    Report: Las Vegas Metro Police Officers Shared Photo Of Route 91 Festival Shooter's Body

    Dec 01, 2018

    Las Vegas police officers were sharing photos of the dead Route 91 Harvest Festival shooter within an hour of the first strike team’s arrival in the man’s Mandalay Bay suite the night of October 1, 2017.

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    The Salt
    You already know what all of your friends are eating, so you might as well know how to make it, too.
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    Oh, Snap! Scientists Are Turning People's Food Photos Into Recipes

    Aug 02, 2017
    Researchers have created an artificial neural network that analyzes an image of a dish and tells you how to make it. Still in the early stages, the technology might help improve our dietary health.
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    Josee, 22, is a student from Kigali, Rwanda.
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    PHOTOS: Your Bedroom Says A Lot About You

    Nov 27, 2016
    Photographer John Thackwray captures images of young people in their bedrooms — including countries in the developing world.
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    Goats and Soda
    A wave amplified by a typhoon smashes onto the shores of Shengshan, Zhoushan City, China.
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    Absolutely Gorgeous Photos Reveal The Beauty In A Hard Life

    Nov 12, 2016
    A Vietnamese woman looks as if she's swimming in a sea of green fire — one of many striking images from the Siena International Photo Awards.
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    Caitlin McConnico tweeted us this picture taken in early June while camping at Makgadikgadi Pans National Park in Botswana.
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    #NPRNightSky: Your Star-Studded Pix From The World's Inkiest Skies

    Jun 26, 2016
    We asked, you answered, with photos of the heavens from Botswana, Tanzania — and Oregon.
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    All Tech Considered
    Facebook's Moments app uses facial recognition technology to group photos based on the friends who are in them. Amid privacy concerns in Europe and Canada, the versions launched in those regions excluded the facial recognition feature.
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    Facebook's Facial Recognition Software Is Different From The FBI's. Here's Why

    May 18, 2016
    Every time one of its 1.65 billion users uploads a photo to Facebook and tags someone, that person is helping the facial recognition algorithm. Its accuracy rate is said to be higher than the FBI's.
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    Goats and Soda
    A woman in Iran shows her injuries from an acid attack. This victims of this kind of violence are often women and children. The trigger may be a family conflict, a rejected marriage proposal or a desire for revenge.
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    6 Sensational Photos From A Global Contest With 230,000 Entries

    Apr 30, 2016
    From a man with his pet rooster in Bali to the victim of an acid attack in Iran, here are some of the featured images from the Sony World Photography Awards.
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    The Two-Way
    Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy was arrested and charged with assaulting his former girlfriend Nicole Holder in May. He was found guilty but appealed, and then when Holder stopped cooperating, the case was dropped.
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    Photos Emerge Of A Woman's Injuries, Allegedly Inflicted By Cowboys' Greg Hardy

    Nov 06, 2015
    Deadspin published photos it says are of Nicole Holder's bruised body. Hardy was found guilty of assaulting her, but the conviction was thrown out. The photos have refocused attention on the attack.
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    A Doctor with a Unique Photographer's Eye

    May 29, 2012
    Robert Belliveau is a retired pathologist. For years, he peered at cells through a microscope.
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    Photographer Barbara Davidson: Survivors of Gang Crossfire [Rebroadcast]

    May 24, 2012
    South Los Angeles.  Compton.
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    Photographer Barbara Davidson: Survivors of Gang Crossfire

    Apr 18, 2012
    South Los Angeles.  Compton.
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    Pretty and Packing: Women Who Own Guns

    Jan 11, 2012
    You don't have to be Annie Oakley to pack a pistol.  That's what photographer Lindsay McCrum found out, when she started snapping portraits of female gunowners.
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    Discovering Long-Lost Picasso Photos

    Dec 09, 2011

    Richard Ham is a prolific, longtime photographer, who snapped photos of everyone from the Queen of England to Winston Churchill.  So he didn't think much of the long-lost negatives he took of a painter named Pablo Picasso.

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    Afghanistan through a Military Photographer's Lens

    Apr 01, 2010
    What does a life of guns, children, and prayer mats look like through a photographer's lens? Air Force photographer Larry Reid talks about taking pictures of sergeants mixing with everyday Afghanis. How did it change his perspective? Join us for a special conversation.
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