Photos of the Week: Ice Disc, Pet Blessings, Presidential Burgers
Teachers on strike in Los Angeles, “Kiss a Ginger Day” in Ireland, a terror attack in Nairobi, fashion shows in Berlin and Paris, the “No Pants Subway Ride” in New York, and much more
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Ricardo Mazalan / AP Photos From the 2019 Dakar Rally
On January 7, a group of 334 competitors began the 41st annual Dakar Rally: a punishing 10-day, 3,000-mile race across the Peruvian desert.
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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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Robert F. Bukaty / AP Daily Life in Maine, as Photographed by Robert F. Bukaty
Based in Portland, the photographer Robert F. Bukaty has been working for the AP since 1993, making thousands of photos of Maine’s people, landscape, wildlife, and, of course, its ever-changing seasons.
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CC BY-SA Vadim Razumov / Wikipedia Photos of Abandoned Russia
For years, photographers have traveled across Russia finding and photographing intriguing ghost towns, empty Soviet factories, toppling houses, and crumbling churches.
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