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Here's What It's Like Inside the First Virtual Reality Documentary

By Josh Raab

Instagram Wants Hyperlapse To Be 'Another Way of Seeing'

By Olivier Laurent

From Mars, With Curiosity: How We Get Pictures From the Red Planet

By Olivier Laurent

Behind the Making of Deep Dive: TIME's First 360 Degree Panoramic Underwater Video

By Mia Tramz
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The 10 Best Cameras for Summer

Whether you’re after the fastest compact camera or the most stylish one, TIME LightBox offers its selection of the 10 best models for the summer season.

By Olivier Laurent

Printing Money on Instagram: A Guide for Photographers

Can Instagram offer a new revenue source to photographers? Magnum Photos seems to think so as it offers, for a limited time, an unprecedented selection of prints from its roster of award-winning photographers

By Olivier Laurent

Meet Panono, the All-Seeing Camera You Toss in the Air

It might look a bit like space-age basketball, but it's actually a portable, bounce-able Google streetview-style camera. Meet Panono, a passion project by Berlin-born photographer Jonas Pfeil.

By Richard Conway

Golden Oldie: The Legendary Brass Petzval Lens Returns, Re-Imagined

In a modern photographic landscape where aesthetic sensibilities are dominated by Instagram filters that create "instant art," one company has decided to bring things all the way back to 1840.

By Joseph C. Lin

Moon Camera for Sale (The Pictures are Free)

The very ordinariness of some of the pictures from astronaut Jim Erwin's purpose-built Hasselblad 500 EL camera, one of only 14 Hasselblads which ever flew to the moon, makes them seem both real and otherworldly

By Jeffrey Kluger

iPhone Meets Hasselblad: Analog and Digital Unite in Ukraine

"Views from my Bellybutton" is a side-project by Ukraine-based VII photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind. Her video portraits of Ukraine protesters are the result of Taylor-Lind mounting an iPhone onto her Hasselblad camera -- giving us a unique view of her working process

By Richard Conway

HD Ultrasounds: 4D Imaging of Your Unborn Child is the Future

A new type of ultrasound allows parents-to-be to see their unborn children in 3D and 4D, even revealing the facial expressions of their child.

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Direct Arcade Fire's New Music Video

An experimental, interactive short film tied to "Reflektor," the title track of the upcoming new album by Arcade Fire, invites you to alter the look and feel of a music video as you watch it in real time.

By TIME Photo Department

Theater of the Streets, Shot On Google Glass

LightBox presents an interview with Richard Koci Hernandez, one of the first professional photographers to embark on an extended exploration of the streets with Google Glass, about his noir-styled pictures and the future of the form.

By Eugene Reznik

From Desert to City: A Photographer Unveils Forgotten Stars

Thierry Cohen’s dazzling photographs are rich in meaning and technicality, returning the stars to their rightful place above light-polluted cities.

By Sophie Butcher

Peeking Inside Health Care: Nick Veasey's Medical X-Rays

To accompany this week’s cover story, TIME commissioned Veasey to take X-ray images of medical supplies, including acetaminophen bottles, IV bags and syringes. Using low-dose radiation from one of his three X-ray machines, Veasey turned the supplies into pellucid still lifes.

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Unfiltered: Photographers React to Instagram's New Terms

TIME reached out to a number of prominent photographers on Instagram for their comments on the service's recently announced changes.

By TIME Photo Department

At the Fights: How Howard Schatz Gets His Best Boxing Shots

In his six-year journey to comprehensively capture the world of professional boxing, Howard Schatz experimented with flash, lighting, shutter speed—and even threw water, salt and powder on the athletes—to create the stroboscopic effect in his latest images.

By Feifei Sun

Live From Mars: Interactive 360 Panorama from the Curiosity Rover

A new panorama just released by NASA's Curiosity rover team shows us a fresh look at the Gale Crater on Mars.

By Jeffrey Kluger

Google Street View Goes to Antarctica

A new panorama of Antarctica by Google's Street View takes a look inside Ernest Shackleton's expeditionary huts, more than a century after they were built.

By Doug Aamoth

Interactive Panorama: Step Inside the Large Hadron Collider

Physicists discovered the elusive Higgs boson particle with the help of the Large Hadron Collider. Peter McCready's spectacular interactive panoramas explore this 17-mile-long marvel of science.

By Jeffrey Kluger
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