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The City That Endures
By Stephanie Zacharek
‘Here We Can Express Ourselves With Freedom.’ In Puerto Rico, A Trans Collective Is Reimagining Family Values
By Alejandra Rosa
Can Barcelona Fix Its Love-Hate Relationship With Tourists After the Pandemic?
By Ciara Nugent
A Mother Speaks Out About Opioid Stigma and The Pain Of Losing Her Son
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'There's No Easy Way Out of This.' How Anti-Government Protests in Colombia Escalated into Deadly Clashes with Police
Scenes from the protests over inequality that have been raging in cities across the country since April 28
By Ciara Nugent
June 4, 2021
The Invisible Labor Inside America's Lactation Rooms
In a photo series and accompanying documentary, Corinne Botz goes inside over 30 American lactation facilities and makeshift spaces for lactating mothers
By Mathilde Cohen
June 30, 2021
How the World's Most Prevalent COVID-19 Vaccine Is Made
Behind the scenes at the German facilities making COVID-19 vaccines for the world
By Alice Park
June 30, 2021
Delivery Drivers in Latin America Fight for Fair Treatment
'No one is looking out for us'
By Ciara Nugent
June 30, 2021
Why Deaths Among America's Homeless Are Soaring
When West Virginia declared a state of emergency to arrest the coronavirus, the social network that aids the homeless froze along with everything else. Charities that offered daily meals and warming stations shut down. Volunteers,...
By Paul Moakley
April 6, 2021
A Photographer's Unflinching Gaze on The War on Terror's Consequences
Come September, the U.S. war on terror will be 20 years old. Many Americans enjoy the luxury of being detached from that fact, but for the hundreds of thousands of people who served in combat,...
By W.J. Hennigan
March 23, 2021
How a Groundbreaking Book Helped a Generation of Lesbians See Themselves in the 1970s
Photographer and activist JEB (Joan E. Biren) reflects on her groundbreaking photo book ‘Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians’
By Paul Moakley
February 13, 2021
Photographs From the Inauguration
The day projected twin images of a nation struggling with chaos and an Administration aiming for normalcy
By Abigail Abrams
January 21, 2021
A Photographer's Diary of 12 Months in Trump's America
It would be too much to say that if you’ve seen one Trump rally you’ve seen them all. But “they all follow a predictable pattern,” says Peter van Agtmael, who has been attending them since...
By Peter van Agtmael
January 20, 2021
A Photographer’s View Inside the Capitol
When a mob incited by President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, photographer Christopher Lee, on assignment for TIME, followed the rioters inside to document their destruction. The day, which started with the...
By Abigail Abrams
January 7, 2021
Photographs Inside the Chaos at the Capitol
A mob whipped up by the President stormed police lines, smashed windows and broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to block lawmakers from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory. The violent...
By Vera Bergengruen
January 7, 2021
TIME's Top 10 Photos of 2020
These images acknowledge not just where we’ve been, but who we are
By TIME Photo Department
January 1, 2021
TIME's Best Photojournalism of 2020
In news events chronicled by TIME photographers across the year, the invisible forces pushing us apart become visible: The plastic barriers built and the Tyvek worn to separate a pathogen from a human being. The...
By TIME Photo Department
January 4, 2021
TIME's Top 100 Photos of 2020
The images—some stirring, some haunting, all indelible—that defined the year
By TIME Staff
December 28, 2020
Meet the Biden Campaign's Vast Voter Network
President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris were named TIME’s 2020 person of the year on December 10, after winning the White House with a record-breaking 81 million votes. A diverse coalition of supporters...
By Lissandra Villa
December 14, 2020
Zanele Muholi Documents Black, Queer Life
"To think that people are being recognized and respected and have been given a space to be themselves—it heals."
By Suyin Haynes
September 16, 2021
TIME's Best Portraits of 2020
Heroes of the COVID-19 Pandemic. President-elect Joe Biden. Megan Thee Stallion. See TIME's best portraits of 2020.
By TIME Staff
December 11, 2020
Portraits of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Favorite Collars and the Stories Behind Them
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American icon. The late Justice, who died on September 18, 2020 at the age of 87, was only the second woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, and a...
By Tessa Berenson
December 16, 2020
Food Banks Strained During COVID-19 Pandemic
Food insecurity is increasing as unemployment rates continue to rise—but food banks are straining to meet the increase in demand
By Abby Vesoulis
November 25, 2020
TIME Photographers Reflect on a Long Election Week
It felt like the country held its breath over four long days, anxiously awaiting one of the presidential candidates' electoral votes to reach 270. On the morning of Nov. 7, after the Associated Press finally...
By TIME Photo Department
January 4, 2021
Scenes from Election Protests in Arizona
Tensions are running high outside of the Maricopa County Elections office in Phoenix, Ariz., where more than a hundred protestors have demonstrated for the last three nights to argue about the electoral process after former...
By Paul Moakley
November 7, 2020
Scenes from Behind the Frontlines of Europe's Oldest 'Frozen War' in Nagorno-Karabakh
In an Armenian trench in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, strings of empty ration cans hang from a rafter jerry-rigged above canted mud walls, intended to jangle in the event of contact from an enemy...
By Joseph Hincks
October 28, 2020
Photographing the New Age of Conspiracies
In November 2017, the House Intelligence Committee released fake advertisements found on Facebook in the walk up to the 2016 election. As politicians on each side argued over whether the ads changed the election results,...
By Paul Moakley
October 19, 2020
As Colleges Open During a Pandemic, Student Life Remains Closed
The typically bustling main campus of Pennsylvania State University is quieter than normal. Many students are tuning in to classes online from their dorm rooms. A town ban on gatherings of more than 10 people...
By Katie Reilly
October 19, 2020
Photos From a Reeling Beirut
A massive explosion rocked the capital city of Lebanon on Tuesday, causing widespread destruction and loss of life. At least 100 people were killed in the blast and more than 4,000 others were injured, according...
By Tara Law
August 5, 2020
Reconsidering Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime
Photographer Gordon Parks examined how the underlying suffering, despair and fear of marginalized groups was further exacerbated by police and prisons
By Miss Rosen
July 31, 2020
Climate Change Pushes Polar Bears Towards Extinction, Study Finds
The majority of polar bears will likely disappear by the end of the century if greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed, according to a new study published Monday. While scientists have long known polar bears...
By Mélissa Godin
July 21, 2020
'I Will Not Stand Silent.' Asian Americans Reflect on Race Amid Pandemic
Diseases and outbreaks have long been used to rationalize xenophobia: HIV was blamed on Haitian Americans, the 1918 influenza pandemic on German Americans, the swine flu in 2009 on Mexican Americans. The racist belief that...
By Sangsuk Sylvia Kang
July 4, 2020
A Socially Distant Father's Day at an L.A. Nursing Home Is a Welcome, Though Difficult Event
Alexandria Care Center has had 23 COVID-19-related resident deaths since the start of the pandemic
By Isadora Kosofsky
June 22, 2020
A Family and City in Mourning: Scenes From George Floyd's Funeral
After Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012, Brooklyn-based photographer Ruddy Roye started to think differently about his work. “I told myself the work I pursue personally would be about educating my sons,” says Roye, 50....
By Ruddy Roye
June 11, 2020
Photographers Share Their Experiences Covering Protests Across America
In the aftermath of George Floyd's death, protests against racism and injustice spread, most peacefully, across America. As people gathered in more than 150 cities, so too did scores of local photographers who felt compelled...
By TIME Photo
June 10, 2020
I’m a Black American Vet and a Former Police Officer. I Decided to Speak Up With My Camera
Doug Barrett, 37, is a photographer, Army Veteran and former police officer from Atlanta who moved to Kansas in 2011. I was a former police officer in Gwinett County, Ga., working in SWAT and narcotics....
By Doug Barrett
June 8, 2020
The Story Behind the Trump Tower Protest Photograph
Mark Clennon, 32, is a photographer living in Harlem with his wife, and three-month-old daughter. On May 30, five days after George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, Clennon went out to photograph a peaceful protest winding...
By Mark Clennon
June 2, 2020
Photographing New York's George Floyd Protests
"I wanted to be part of the change and fight for all the black people who have lost their lives to police brutality," says photographer Malike Sidibe
By Malike Sidibe
June 5, 2020
After George Floyd's Death: Voices Behind Photos
'My job is just to document a visual diary,' a Minneapolis photographer tells TIME. 'Obviously, we are in need of a deep conversation about police reform because this keeps happening'
By Karl Vick
June 2, 2020
‘We Do This for the Living.’ Inside New York’s Citywide Effort to Bury Its Dead
Much of New York City has been idle since the coronavirus lockdown was declared two months ago, but not the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, an 88-acre shipping and distribution hub built in the 1960s on...
By W.J. Hennigan
April 30, 2021
Meet the 23-Year-Old Photographer Who Shot the Cover of TIME's Generation Pandemic Issue
Having graduated from college four months prior to the tragic events of 9/11, I've been thinking a lot about the class of 2020 and how this global moment will forever shape their lives. For this...
By Katherine Pomerantz
April 30, 2021
Moms Understood Isolation Before the Pandemic
Confinement, isolation, remaining homebound: these are not new experiences for mothers. A baby’s many needs are a legion of tender leashes, tethering a mother to a child who needs her body to be fed and...
By Belinda Luscombe
May 11, 2020
What Life Is Like During Germany's Coronavirus Crisis
When Ingmar Björn Nolting saw his grandmother in early April, it was from a distance of five meters. Roswitha Erler, 80, lives in the northwestern German town of Minden and has been battling breast cancer—putting...
By Madeline Roache
May 5, 2020
Silent Squares and the Scent of Death: Scenes From an Italy Laid Low by Coronavirus
It wasn’t long after my arrival at the hospital in Brescia that I smelled something I know too well. I have smelled it many times working as a photojournalist in conflict zones. I do not...
By Lorenzo Meloni
April 17, 2020
What It's Like Living in Italy During Coronavirus Lockdown
Photographer Lucia Buricelli lives alone in a studio apartment in Milan. On March 9, Italy became the first democratic country since the Second World War to impose a nationwide lockdown, extending measures that had already...
By Sangsuk Sylvia Kang
March 20, 2020
The Art of Documentary Photography: Dorothea Lange Reconsidered
Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl migrants made her one of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th century. But her famous Migrant Mother and other images made for the federal...
By Holly Stuart Hughes
February 21, 2020
Let's Go Behind the Scenes With the Furry, Fluffy, Fabulous Stars of the Westminster Dog Show
Step into the holding area of Madison Square Garden this week, and you might just get French kissed by a new friend. That's because it's the annual Westminster Dog Show, and spectators are welcome to...
By Raisa Bruner
February 12, 2020
A Photographer's Take on the #MeToo Trial of the Decade
Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial opened the new decade in spectacular fashion. Curious onlookers, protesters demanding justice, police, and the media filled the State Supreme Court in Lower Manhattan to witness the beginning of weeks of...
By Sangsuk Sylvia Kang
March 19, 2020
Donald Trump Has Been Acquitted. But Our Government Has Never Seemed More Broken.
A deeply divided Senate acquitted President Donald Trump at the end of his impeachment trial on Wednesday, with 52 Senators concluding the House’s allegations that he abused the power of his office did not necessitate...
By Tessa Berenson
February 6, 2020
Why the Film Industry Is Thriving in the Russian Wilderness
Stepan Burnashev has loved cinema since he was a child. Growing up in Yakutia in eastern Siberia, then part of the Soviet Union, he would watch pirated Hollywood films on VHS tapes, from King Kong...
By Suyin Haynes
February 15, 2020
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