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See How Smartphones Have Become a Lifeline for Refugees

The smartphone is the refugee’s best friend

By Patrick Witty

The Smartphone Is the Refugee’s Best Friend

How migrants use mobiles to survive

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Witness to a Syrian Execution: "I Saw a Scene of Utter Cruelty"

All wars are vicious, but the civil war in Syria seems every day to set new standards for brutality. As the fighting rages in its third year, increasing numbers of atrocities are committed by soldiers...

By Patrick Witty

Help Identify This Photo: The Moment The Towers Fell

Twelve years after the Twin Towers collapsed, TIME's Patrick Witty turned to social media for help identifying the subjects of his 9/11 photo.

By Patrick Witty

Obama's Photographer Joins Instagram

An exclusive interview with Pete Souza on Instagramming the President, the White House, and one of the world's most famous dogs.

By Patrick Witty

Baby Henry Flies Again

One year ago, LightBox published Rachel Hulin’s series of whimsical photographs of her son, Henry, magically flying. Now, a new children's book captures all of his Henry's adventures.

By Patrick Witty

The Abandoned Chocolate Factory by Sebastian Liste

Sebastian Liste is the first recipient of the City of Perpignan Rémi Ochlik Award—granted for his compelling long-term documentary about a community living in an abandoned factory in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.

By Patrick Witty

Malcolm Browne: The Story Behind The Burning Monk

On the 50th anniversary of Quang Duc's self-immolation in 1963, LightBox presents an interview with Malcolm Browne, the Associated Press photographer who captured the now-iconic image.

By Patrick Witty

Tank Man Revisited: More Details Emerge About the Iconic Image

The story behind the iconic Tiananmen Square Tank Man photo didn't end after the click of the shutter—the film had to be smuggled past Chinese soldiers in the underwear of an American college student named Kirk.

By Patrick Witty

The Flying Baby

Exhausted and bored on an assignment, photographer Rachel Hulin thought it would be fun to make her baby fly. So her son Henry flew.

By Patrick Witty

The Flower Girls: Mennonites in Mexico

Mexican photographer Eunice Adorno explores the isolated Mennonite communities in Mexico in her new book, "Las Mujeres Flores".

By Patrick Witty

The Aesthetics of a Dictatorship: North Korea's Photoshopped Funeral

The authenticity of government-released photographs from North Korea has been questioned for years but not until this week, during the funeral of Kim Jong Il, was the issue as widely discussed and analyzed.

By Patrick Witty

The Protester: A Portfolio by Peter Hapak

As TIME names the protester its 2011 Person of the Year, a look at protesters from around the world, from New York and Oakland to the Middle East.

By Patrick Witty

A New Way to Photograph War: Condition ONE Launches Today

Danfung Dennis introduces Condition ONE, an app that could change the way photographers capture, and viewers experience, war.

By Patrick Witty

Banding Together for a Fallen Colleague: The Friends of Anton

A new website, Friends of Anton, launches in an effort to raise money for Anton Hammerl, a freelance photographer who was killed while covering the Libyan revolution.

By Patrick Witty

Collateral Crisis: The Catastrophic Famine in Somalia

Over six days in Mogadishu in early August, TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr documented appalling suffering and death among the hundreds of thousands of refugees who had fled famine in the south of the country.

By Patrick Witty

Revisiting Japan’s Ground Zero

Five months after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that killed as many as 22,000 people and displaced nearly 125,000 others, Fukushima prefecture is still struggling to clean up and move on. Photographer William Daniels traveled near the exclusion zone, capturing vacant streets, massive devastation and the people who stayed behind.

By Patrick Witty

A Desperate Leap of Faith in London: The Riot Photo That Has the World Buzzing

With each huge news story there is a scramble it seems to find the icon—the single photograph that resonates deeper and more powerfully than the rest, and comes to symbolize the event in the mind of readers. Amy Weston may have captured that image.

By Patrick Witty

From Afghan Dust to the Meandering Mekong

After spending the majority of the last three years covering the war in Afghanistan, I came to a point where I felt the Afghan dust was corroding the curiosity in my eyes. I needed to wander again and I found myself in Vientiane, Laos, on the bank of the meandering Mekong River.

By Patrick Witty

The Young Slovenian, Jošt Franko

The necks of the swans bend gracefully, one seamlessly framed by a young girl’s arm – her body language a subtle echo of her surroundings. It’s a complex image reminiscent of another era, but most surprising is its author: 18-year-old Jošt Franko.

By Patrick Witty
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