16.00 BST Every year, on the last Wednesday of August, thousands of people visit the small village of Buñol to attend the Tomatina, a battle in which revellers throw ripe tomatoes at one another Photograph: Ana Escobar/EPA Facebook Twitter Here come the toms Photograph: José Jordan/AFP/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Revellers writhe in ripe tomatoes Photograph: Alberto […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Wed 31 Aug 2022 17.21 BST EstherEsther is a deaf young tailor who makes and sells reusable sanitary pads at a workshop near Luchenza, Malawi. She is part of a group of 12 deaf women who met at a local tailoring course. By working together, the women keep each other safe and […]
07.00 BST Woman on Pier Looking Skyward, 2017Widely celebrated New York street photographer Harvey Stein is known, in part, for his ability to notice the beautiful, mundane and quirky aspects of human nature. In doing so, he elevates the everyday to a space of wonder. Coney Island People: 50 Years is published by Schiffer. All photographs: […]
04.42 BST Last modified on Mon 29 Aug 2022 06.29 BST Lil Nas X arriving at the Prudential Center, New Jersey. Photograph: Stephen Lovekin/Rex/Shutterstock Facebook Twitter Jonathan Fernandez and Cyn Santana. Photograph: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Canadian singer-songwriter Lauren Spencer-Smith. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Lizzo is nominated for song of the year and artist […]
07.00 BST Every time I come to Southwold on the Suffolk coast I’m struck by how different it is from any other English seaside resort I know, writes Linda Nylind. Admittedly the town is almost too perfect, affluent and full to the brim with holiday lets, but it’s Southwold pier and beachside that I find more […]
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07.00 BST Last modified on Thu 25 Aug 2022 11.45 BST Jake Ricker – 1st place winner, series: Strange Paradise‘Over the last four years I have been documenting the Golden Gate Bridge on an almost daily basis. During this time I have helped to save over 60 people from suicide. A year ago I quit my job […]
07.00 BST Maud and Nina Platt, 1911Lora Webb Nichols was born in 1883 and lived most of her life in Encampment, Wyoming, a town that grew rapidly in the copper mining boom. The Lora Webb Nichols collection is housed at the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming in Laramie Facebook Twitter Bert Oldman Jr, 1911She received […]
07.00 BST Shrimping on the Miss Sandra, McClellanville, South Carolina, 2016Returning to specific communities year after year, Lynton moves beyond mythology to reveal a complex social landscape suffused with tradition but unburdened by nostalgia. She says: ‘Being on the shrimp boat, it wasn’t just the work of shrimping, it was the sea, the weight of the […]
18.30 BST Last modified on Mon 22 Aug 2022 00.50 BST Towers of the GoddessMother Nature in all her glory. The landscape features the back view of the iconic ‘towers’ of the Paine mountain range, shot whilst trekking through the Torres Del Paine national park in Patagonia, Chile Facebook Twitter The Golden EarthThe last light of the […]
07.00 BST Dougie Wallace’s latest and ongoing project is Soho Unlocked. A selection of works from the series will be going on display at the Motel Collection Gallery, London, from 25 August 2022. All photographs: Dougie Wallace Facebook Twitter Soho Unlocked captures a distinct new chapter in the history of this busy central London quarter Facebook […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Wed 17 Aug 2022 07.11 BST This car is entering the track and getting ready to race. The broken-down vehicle is hardly Nascar fast, but it is typical of stock car racing, which makes one wonder whether the title Speedway really applies. Speedway 1972 by Henry Horenstein is published by Stanley/Barker. All […]
07.00 BST Workmen in the power houseIn 1944, the Standard Oil Company’s Roy Stryker commissioned Gordon Parks to travel to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and document the Penola, Inc Grease Plant. Parks spent two years photographing the plant’s workers and their occupations, which were critical to the city’s history and character. Pittsburgh Grease Plant, 1944/1946 by Gordon Parks […]
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18.30 BST Brad Pitt, 2004Usually, Wilson works with people he’s crossed paths with in his theatre career, but Pitt and he had a mutual interest. “Brad and Bob are both total chair fetishists. I think Bob has the largest private chair collection in the US and Brad’s is like No. 3,” says Chris Green. In this […]
10.48 BST Bode and Wilson Wrestling Vertical, 2022 Facebook Twitter Matthew and Oden, 2018 Facebook Twitter Forest Sculpture, 2020 Facebook Twitter Ramon, 2020 Facebook Twitter Leo, Lexi, Lily, Willa, 2022 Facebook Twitter Braily, 2020 Facebook Twitter Fred and his twin, 2020 Facebook Twitter Matthew, Jackson and Oden, 2018 Facebook Twitter TaeShawn, 2020 Facebook Twitter Topics Culture […]
17.00 BST Comedian Jessica Fostekew doesn’t hold back at Monkey Barrel with her new show, Wench Facebook Twitter Internationally acclaimed Belgian theatre collective Ontroerend Goed are at Zoo Southside with Every Word Was Once an Animal, which is funny, self-referential and bewildering in equal parts Facebook Twitter Alan Cumming gives an extraordinary performance in his dance […]
07.00 BST US troops carry the body of staff sergeant Larry Rougle, killed by Taliban insurgents in an ambush in the Korengal valley, Afghanistan in October 2007. Facebook Twitter Ukrainians clean up debris after a residential building was hit by missiles in south Kyiv in February 2022. Facebook Twitter Eyerus, a 40-year old mother of two […]
09.13 BST Winner, overall and animal behaviour‘We had received word about a serval hunting birds along the shore of Lake Ndutu in Tanzania so we raced over to see. Upon arrival, we quickly realised that it was in fact a caracal and not a serval, and it was hunting flamingos that were feeding in the shallows. […]
07.00 BST Untitled (Masked Self-Portrait, Dessau), 1930, by Gertrud Arndt‘When I see a woman behind the camera, I see a woman in a position of power. That, to me, speaks to feminism,’ writes art collector Helen Kornblum, who donated these photographs, and others by women, to MoMA. ‘All the images are organised around this question: “What […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Wed 10 Aug 2022 07.13 BST On the grass by Marble Arch. All photographs: Sarah Lee/The Guardian Facebook Twitter People walking across Hampstead Heath towards the mixed bathing pond Facebook Twitter Albert on Parliament Hill Facebook Twitter A family sit on deckchairs to eat in Hyde Park Facebook Twitter Scaffolding by Lord’s […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Tue 9 Aug 2022 12.28 BST Live on stage at Le Poisson Rouge, New York, May 2016‘Saul sent a message to the tour manager Pete on the group Whatsapp that day reading: “Can you put Lady Gaga +1 on the guest list for tonight?” I think “F**k off” was the reply’ Fat […]
07.00 BST In 1991, on a visit to Ireland and Northern Ireland, Krass Clement shot his landmark book, Drum, in just one evening in an Irish pub, using three and a half rolls of film. More than 30 years later Clement has revisited his archive and photographs he made in the same period. His new book, […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Wed 3 Aug 2022 10.28 BST 2006 – Persia Campbell‘When the war against the cartel began in Ciudad Juárez in 2006, many of us took refuge in our private spaces (in our homes and in our bedrooms). In view of the public spaces being taken over by terrorism and violence, we made […]
07.00 BST Alfred Quarshie by the advertising board of the Ever Young Studio, circa 1955Stories: Pictures from the Archive (1947-1987) focuses on the life and work of Ghanaian photographer James Barnor. The images in the book, many previously unpublished, journey from Accra to London and back again to provide a kaleidoscopic overview of his work from […]
20.51 BST Last modified on Mon 1 Aug 2022 19.16 BST Grace Dell Nichols was born in Robbins, Illinois on 28 December 1932. She didn’t like her first name and her parents changed it to Nichelle. Photograph: Globe Photos/REX/Shutterstock Facebook Twitter Mister Buddwing, 1966Before Star Trek, Nichols sang with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton and appeared in […]