Sarah Leen has a job most people in the world would envy. She looks at photographs for a living. And not just any photographs — National Geographic photographs. As our Director of Photography, Leen ...

National Geographic's 100 best images of the year–curated from 106 photographers, 121 stories, and more than two million photographs. Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa” is believed to depict Lisa Gherardini, the ...

What makes a great photograph? Here is a recent photograph taken by Frank Döring, a contemporary photographer whose work I admire. Source: Frank Döring, use with permission I like this photograph. Why ...

The end of the year is a time for reminiscing, and Google is doing that in a substantial manner following a team up with Nickelback to release a Photos-themed parody of Photograph. A parody of 2005’s ...

Taken in 1838, Louis Daguerre’s photograph of a Paris street scene shows a man standing along the Boulevard du Temple getting his shoes shined. It is widely believed to be the earliest extant ...

As a child, I would sit on the balcony of our Dhaka apartment overlooking the pond and flip through our two family photo albums. After the Bangladesh liberation war in 1971, film was scarce and our ...