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Steve Hart has spent 40 years preparing for every potential disaster the human race might face. So how does he fare in a pandemic?

The inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha, which sits in the remote waters of the South Atlantic, are insulated from the coronavirus by an immense moat.

A few hundred years in the borough, from the brownstones to the shipyards. Our critic chats with a fourth-generation Brooklynite and historian.

"I wanted to show it can happen to anyone. It doesn't matter if you're young or old, have preexisting conditions or not. It can affect you."

"Each species that we photograph is precious, irreplaceable, and in my mind, has a basic right to exist."

Like many around the world, Japanese photographer Takuya Nishimura is currently following stay-and-work-at-home protocol as a countermeasure against the novel coronavirus.

When photographer Eric Guth drops into Godzilla Cave, he slips into a world of ice built by fire.

In a 1977 interview by the Literary Guild, King recounts, "While we were living [in Boulder] we heard about this terrific old mountain resort hotel and decided to give it a try. But when we arrived, they were just getting ready to close for the season, and we found ourselves the only guests in the place — with all those long, empty corridors."

The coronavirus pandemic has changed how we live. What was ordinary just a couple of months ago seems almost unrecognizable.

Hope in hydrangeas, eerie photos of London in lockdown and more best photos of the week.

Take a look back at the entertainment legend and master of animation magic during the 1940s.

The Rijksmuseum is publishing the largest and most detailed ever photograph of "The Night Watch" on its website, making it possible to zoom in on individual brushstrokes and even particles of pigment in the painting.

Dieter Klein has travelled to remote corners of Europe and the US to find and photograph abandoned cars.

At 70 trillion frames per second, it's fast enough to document nuclear fusion and radioactive molecule decay.

Over 11 million Getty images are on ice near Pittsburgh.

Readers share photos and stories from their disrupted lives amid the coronavirus crisis — including, in this case, a busy spider in Karachi, bike riding lessons and a surprise birthday party starring Bubbles.

Entrants in this year's contest were invited to submit images showcasing the Earth's biodiversity and showing some of the mounting threats to the natural world.

A few glimpses of Kentucky's landscape and some of the animals and people calling it home.

"Interestingly, in art, even though it is so fundamental, real-life depictions of motherhood have been underrepresented over the course of history."

The Antarctic expedition that didn't go quite as planned, girlhood in Gaza and other best photos of the week.

U.S. Route 20 is America's longest road, stretching from Boston, Massachusetts to Newport, Oregon. That's 12 states and 3,365 miles. Long enough to wend your way along, veer off on new directions and see the expansive country that gives it to you straight.

The COVID-19 pandemic has functionally destroyed commercial aviation. Almost overnight, air passenger demand plummeted 95%.

A virtual photo trip through the dancing spheres of Jupiter and its four major moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.

In the LA suburb of San Fernando Valley, a long stretch of Van Nuys Boulevard would be packed with kids and cars from all over Southern California — the place to show off your ride.

Photos aren't very good at conveying depth perception, meaning social distance shaming via social media can be misleading.

Themed scenes from the '70s, '80s, '90s and movies, the eerie, dystopian opulence of cruise ships and more best photos of the week.

This computer illustrator uses the Blender software to create a simulated environment with just one photograph of a metro station.

How the digital world is liberating perceptions of what is possible in the physical realm.

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In their latest project, "A Glittering Eye," photographers Courtney Asztalos and Michael W. Hicks capture a lavish world on the brink of collapse.

While reviewing 999 photos he'd captured through the night, Prasenjeet Yadav spotted a bright green fireball streaking down the sky and illuminating the sky in one of his frames.

Even in the pouring rain, in the middle of the night, they are out scavenging, wearing headlamps to scan a mountain of rotting garbage more than 15 stories high.

This article is in Danish, but you don't need to read it to get the idea — just look at the examples. If you see news images taken with telephoto lenses that appear to show people clustered too close together, it's fair to be skeptical.

Donald Trump retweeted a gif of Joe Biden with his tongue out. No, it's not a deepfake — or the end of democracy.

Photographer Adrian Guerin rode Mauritania's Train du Desert, one of the world's longest trains, at the hottest time of the year. It nearly broke him.

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing Muslims to adapt, observing the holy month more at home than in the mosque, more online than in person and with greater uncertainty about the future.

Arizona Republic photographer Michael Chow, wearing a tight-fitting N95 mask, sprinted ahead of the crowd. And that's when he saw the nurses.

How rising sea levels are affecting Miami, a megachurch adopts to social distancing and more best photos of the week.

William Shakespeare was born this month in 1564, but the playwright's influence is unquestionable and his fingerprints are still all over modern film, literature and television.

On Colorado's grasslands, Rachel Hopper skillfully captures the beauty and brutality of this fierce songbird's distinctive style of food storage.

By paraglider and drone, the photographer invites us to gaze down on how humans and environments have shaped one another.

When the Allies vanquished Nazi Germany in 1945, the U.S. captured many of the Germans' powerful V-2 rockets. Those seized rockets didn't stay in Europe for long.

We'll call it: life before there was GoPro and it's the story of how Picard shot some unique (back then) BMX trick photos using a helmet-mounted DSLR.

Alyson McClaran said one of the anti-lockdown protesters pushed his car against a man in scrubs who was peacefully blocking protesters in Denver.

It's an iconic image, but the photo is being taken out of context.

Isolating individuals in photographs can make for an interesting image, but an entire portfolio of these images contains a statement, whether intentional or otherwise.

A few glimpses of Colorado's landscape and some of the animals and people calling it home.

Living inside Brazil's largest apartment complex amid a pandemic, prophetic images of an empty world and other best photos of the week.

The 1980s is the period of multi-style fashion, especially for young people in the United States.

Inside the underfunded, overwhelmed public hospitals that are trying to save New York.

The Range Rover has been a notable part of motoring since the beginning of the 1970s.

The empty strip, shut down for the first time since the JFK assassination, shows the striking toll the coronavirus crisis has taken on fun and leisure.

New Yorkers have a special relationship with trash, which is as much a fixture of the cityscape as the Manhattan skyline. Not to wax romantic about littering, but some of that, shall we say, "street ephemera" — the lost tickets, photos, business cards — can give us the most honest, intimate window into the city's stories.

Feuding royals. A deadly planet. Before "Star Wars" or "Game of Thrones," there was Frank Herbert's legendary sci-fi novel.

These photos of wildlife taking over the streets of towns and cities around the world will make you smile — from goats in Llandudno to ducks in Paris.

Images from around the world showing what Easter Sunday services look like during a global pandemic.

A trip to the moon later this decade should be safer, but it won't be safe.

Unsurprisingly, given they were locked in a fight for survival, relatively few onboard images were taken. But imaging specialist Andy Saunders created sharp stills from low-quality 16mm film shot by the crew.

One of photographer Toby Harriman's personal projects over the past few years has been exploring the unique designs of different airports, and his slowly expanding Airport Aerials project is offering truly unique perspectives on these massive spaces.

The deer, bobcats, coyotes and bears no longer have to deal with the hordes of camera-toting tourist vying to capture nature. They now roam unfettered.