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The 80s: Photographing Britain review – in your face and to the barricades
Tate Britain, London From Greenham and Orgreave to Belfast and City slickers, visceral images from a turbulent decade jostle for attention in a show that feels overwhelming in its scale and ...World - The Guardian - 7 hours ago -
Stagecraft and the power of political photographs
With the invention of photography came a new way to view, mythologize and remember the nation's presidents. CBS News chief election & campaign correspondent Robert Costa talks with Washington Post ...Top stories - CBS News - November 3 -
Photographing Every President Since Reagan
Doug Mills reflects on nearly 40 years of taking photos of presidents.Top stories - The New York Times - November 2 -
Three tests for Britain’s Budget
Reeves must stabilise the economy, and pave the way for higher growthBusiness - Financial Times - October 27 -
The pressures on Britain’s state, in charts
Ageing population is a great policy achievement but the higher costs demand tax increases and improved growthWorld - Financial Times - October 30 -
Goodbye to low-tax Britain
One does not need to subscribe to hyperbolic Tory rhetoric to recognise that this Budget heralded a major shiftBusiness - Financial Times - October 30 -
What happened to the young girl captured in a photograph of Gaza detainees
Julia, aged three, looks on from a crowd of fearful and exhausted men. This is her story.Top stories - BBC News - November 1 -
Photographing the New York Times Newsroom on Election Night
Simbarashe Cha and Sara Krulwich, two New York Times photographers, documented Tuesday evening in the newsroom.Top stories - The New York Times - November 7 -
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A nostalgic photographic road trip across Australia – in pictures
When photographer Trent Mitchell was on the road looking for surf all over Australia he’d throw a couple of rolls of film in the bag and snap pictures here and there. He focused on scenes that ...World - The Guardian - 17 hours ago -
In Amish Country, George Steinmetz Chases the Perfect Photograph
In his mission to document the earth’s food supply, George Steinmetz recovers the human element in aerial photography — and in farming. Ahead of his new book, he brings our critic into the field.Top stories - The New York Times - Yesterday -
Britain needs a coherent China strategy
The Labour government must determine where UK ‘red lines’ lieBusiness - Financial Times - 4 days ago -
The story of Britain’s postwar atomic weapons
The truth behind Britain’s nuclear tests, and the human cost for service personnel and indigenous communitiesTop stories - BBC News - 4 days ago -
Britain is being stalked by the spectre of stagflation
A combination of lower output, higher unemployment and inflation would leave the Bank of England in a tight spotWorld - Financial Times - Yesterday -
In Beirut, a photographer's frozen moments slow down time and allow the contemplation of destruction
We watch video after video, consuming the world on our handheld devices in bites of two minutes, one minute, 30 seconds, 15. We turn to moving pictures — “film” — because it comes the closest to ...Tech - ABC News - October 27 -
Photographer killed after accidentally walking into plane propeller in Kansas
Amanda Gallagher was taking pictures of skydivers when she inadvertently stepped back into a spinning propeller. A photographer was killed after inadvertently walking into a spinning airplane ...World - The Guardian - October 29 -
Carlos and Boogie on the subway heading for 42nd Street: Ricky Flores’s best photograph
‘These are my boys on the 6 train. Carlos, on the left, had just come out of the army – and Boogie’s just being Boogie’. When I was 18, I came into an inheritance from my father. I used it to buy a ...World - The Guardian - October 30 -
The 'light sabre' wielding photographer creating colourful light paintings
For 15 years, David Gilliver has been a pioneer in the technique of painting with light.Top stories - BBC News - November 3 -
‘People do not want to believe it is true’: the photographer capturing the vanishing of glaciers
Christian Åslund was shocked at the difference between what he saw in 2002 and what confronted him this summer . Standing in blinding sunlight on an archipelago above the Arctic Circle, the ...World - The Guardian - November 5 -
Two bondage fans in Cuba: Jean-François Bouchard’s best photograph
‘Felix runs a weekly class teaching the art of Japanese bondage in Havana. It was his idea to have Katy smoking a cigar. They’re part of a subculture most foreigners don’t know exists’. . . . I ...World - The Guardian - November 6 -
Eikoh Hosoe, Photographer Who Elevated the Avant-Garde, Dies at 91
He pioneered a surrealistic narrative style in collaborations with dancers, artists and the author Yukio Mishima, with whom he created startling erotic tableaus.Top stories - The New York Times - November 6 -
Two Florida women arrested after shooting death of photographer is livestreamed
Two women were arrested on Friday in connection with the murder of a photographer that was partially livestreamed on social media, police in Florida said.Top stories - NBC News - November 9 -
Disaster strikes, but a photographer's prized Pat Tillman photo negative survives
Hurricane flooding wiped out photographer Gene Lower's belongings, but a cherished Pat Tillman photo survived.Sports - ESPN - November 7 -
A Bornean orangutan on a fearless quest for figs: Tim Laman’s best photograph
‘While it was dark, I climbed up and put remote control cameras in the tree. I’d never have got the shot if I’d been up there. An orangutan always knows you’re there’. I was following orangutans in ...World - The Guardian - 3 days ago -
'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found' resurrects a once-forgotten anti-apartheid photographer
When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little notedEntertainment - ABC News - 2 days ago -
Microsoft is finally testing its Recall photographic memory search feature. It's not perfect
Microsoft on Friday finally started letting people test Recall, a so-called photographic memory search feature for the latest Copilot+ PCs. It's not perfect.Business - CNBC - Yesterday -
Jilly Cooper’s Britain: world capital of bad sex
A British weakness for bawdy banter is at the heart of hit TV show ‘Rivals’. Isn’t it time we grew up?Business - Financial Times - October 26 -
UK Budget: What to Know Before Labour’s Announcement
The new Labour Party government said it had inherited a challenging financial position and warned of tax increases and spending cuts when it reveals its budget this week.Top stories - The New York Times - October 28 -
‘No shortcuts’: Labour sets Britain on risky road to recovery
Starmer and Reeves have time on their side as they take major political gambleBusiness - Financial Times - October 30 -
Britain’s Labour Budget: bold ambition, uncertain prospects
Rachel Reeves must now deliver on her investment plans, or taxes will rise even furtherWorld - Financial Times - October 30 -
U.K. Budget Makes a Big Bet on Spending for Growth
The Labour Party is betting that extra spending on public services and more investment will eventually revitalize the country’s stagnant economy.Business - The New York Times - October 31 -
Britain's Conservative Party elects Kemi Badenoch as leader
Kemi Badenoch is now the first Black woman to lead a major British political party.Top stories - CBS News - November 2 -
Britain's 'best new building of 1996' to be demolished
Salford University's award-winning Centenary Building has been vacant for the past eight years.Top stories - BBC News - November 11 -
At COP29, Keir Starmer Announces the UK’s Ambitious Climate Targets
The prime minister announced more ambitious climate targets, charting a very different course from the United States, which is expected to roll back its energy transition plans.World - The New York Times - November 12 -
Britain desperately needs a proper industrial strategy
Collaboration between business and government is central to achieving that goalWorld - Financial Times - November 14 -
Britain’s bold plan to create super funds
The case for consolidating the UK’s sprawling pension arsenal is strongBusiness - Financial Times - November 14 -
Rachel Reeves’ plans to reform Britain’s pensions industry
Proposals expected to lead to rapid consolidation of workplace retirement schemes and reallocation of assetsWorld - Financial Times - November 15
