In Pictures

Week in pictures

Some of the best news photographs from around the world

Africa's week in pictures

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans this week.

  • 25 August 2017
  • From the section Africa
Image gallery

Brooklyn's Photoville festival

Brooklyn's Photoville festival features more than 75 exhibitions. Here is a selection of images in the exhibition.

When the boat comes in

Being a woman in the male-dominated fishing industry

  • 22 August 2017

'I made a hole in the roof'

Surviving Sierra Leone's mudslide but losing everything

  • 23 August 2017
  • From the section Africa
Image gallery

Colour, culture and community of Nigerian festival

Egungun - the festival where "spirits" come to life. Photographs by Charlie Northcott & Joshua Akinyemi.

  • 23 August 2017
  • From the section Africa

Videos

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A journey across segregated America

Video 4:07

Magnum turns 70

Video 3:59

Photographing the Russian Empire in colour

  • 15 March 2017
  • From the section Magazine
Video 1:22

Capturing 1950s street life

Video 2:42

Alberta's night sky spectacular

Video 4:36

Gurning, dunting and skipping

Our Experts

In pictures: Koo Stark on both sides of the lens

Model-turned-photographer Koo Stark talks about her work, which is on show for the first time in around 20 years.

8 May 2017
Phil Coomes Picture editor

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