Alan Taylor
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Ilya Terentyev / Getty Built to Separate: Border Barriers Around the World
As more and more walls are built along borders worldwide, a look at some famous and some lesser-known barriers across the globe.
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Costfoto / Barcroft Media via Getty Photos of the Week: Denver Longhorns, Camel Shaving, Hero Pups
Heavy snow across Central Europe, a partial solar eclipse in China, a Transformer on the streets of Bogota, the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Christmas fire in Saint Petersburg, and much more
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Terrible Lizards: Dinosaur Statues of Questionable Accuracy
A collection of photographs from the past century of large-scale mock dinosaurs, constructed to varying degrees of accuracy
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Peter Gedei / Barcroft Media via Getty Scenes From Underground
Recent subterranean scenes from around the world
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Tao Zhang / Getty Photos of the 2019 Harbin Ice and Snow Festival
Massive, colorful ice sculptures light up the night in the frigid northern city of Harbin, China.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: Space Snowman, Chilean Puma, Frozen Beak
A wild encounter in Scotland, a lunar landing made by China, snow on the Grand Canyon, ice castles in Utah, and much more
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John William Draper / Wikimedia Photos: A Collection of Lunar Firsts
Investment in lunar exploration is growing once more—humanity has achieved many lunar firsts, but others are still to come.
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Menahem Kahana / AFP / Getty The Murmurations of Starlings
The simple beauty in the shapes formed by murmurations, captured by various photographers over the past few years
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Ilya Naymushin / Reuters New Year’s Eve Photos: Welcoming 2019
Images from around the world of people greeting the new year with fireworks, polar-bear swims, traditional festivals, solemn observations, and more
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Jack Guez / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: Vertical Dancers, Pagan Solstice, Panda Monitor
Strange blue lights in the night sky over New York, Christmas calls from the White House, a fox hunt in Ireland, icy weather in China, penguins in Italy and Antarctica, and much more.
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Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP / Getty 2018 Seen Through the Lens of Yasuyoshi Chiba
Yasuyoshi Chiba, a staff photographer with AFP, spent nearly the entire year of 2018 in Kenya, documenting an incredibly wide range of subjects, landscapes, and issues.
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Linh Pham / Getty Christmas Around the World 2018
Holiday images from Australia, Japan, Iraq, England, Bolivia, the U.S., India, Italy, and many more countries
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Ed Wray / Getty Photos: Deadly Tsunami Strikes Indonesia’s Sunda Strait
At least 222 people have reportedly been killed along Indonesia’s Sunda Strait by a tsunami, likely triggered by an eruption of the Anak Krakatau volcano.
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Laszlo Balogh / Getty Photos of the Week: Halo Moon, Crouching Boy, Festive Penguins
Keyboard art in the Ivory Coast, darts fans in London, a giant Santa in Shanghai, a naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles, and much more
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Photos: 50 Years Since Apollo 8 Showed Us Earthrise
A half century ago, human beings left our planet for a trip around the moon for the first time, and brought home incredible images of vistas never seen before.
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Ostariyanov / Shutterstock, The Atlantic The Most 2018 Photos Ever
A collection of photographs that are just so 2018.
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Attila Kisbenedek / AFP / Getty It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
A collection of holiday cheer and light wrapped up in 35 photographs
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Danish Ismail / Reuters Photos of the Week: Sweet Spill, Bovine Rescue, Miss Universe
Big waves in Portugal, holiday lights in Europe, images from the asteroid Bennu, a flight with Virgin Galactic, a giant middle finger in Vermont, and much more
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USGS / Reuters 2018: The Year in Volcanic Activity
Out of an estimated 1,500 active volcanoes, 50 or so erupt every year, spewing steam, ash, toxic gases, and lava.
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Jassen Todorov Winners of the 2018 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest
National Geographic magazine has announced the winning entries in its annual photo competition.
