Photographer Skander Khlif traveled to the North African country of Tunisia this past summer and spent days traveling along the coast. Along the way, he turned his lens on the joy of kids there growing up next to the sea and playing in the water as a way of life. The Munich-based photographer’s goal was […]
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Located east of the Horn of Africa, Socotra was famously described by English anthropologist George Wynn Brereton Huntingford in 1980 as “the most alien-looking place on Earth.” Photographer Daniel Kordan visited the island and captured the otherworldly beauty of the landscapes, from the dragon blood trees to the white sand dunes. Socotra is the largest […] petapixel.com »
2021-06-19 20:58
Every 53 days, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flies close to Jupiter and travels from the giant gas planet’s north pole to and past its south pole, shooting photos along the way. The eye-opening 2-minute video above was created using a set of these still photos. petapixel.com »
2017-05-29 19:27
Egyptian photographer Amr Elshamy has shot photos showing whales and dolphins in the sea and polar bears and seals in snowy landscapes. But here’s what makes his wildlife photography different than most others: they were all shot indoors on a table in Elshamy’s room. petapixel.com »
2017-01-31 21:19
On 17 December 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi, a young vegetable merchant, sets himself on fire as a protest against oppression and against a president that had denied him and millions of other young people the right to dream of a better future.