Joan Brown's Joan + Donald, 1982, Oil enamel on canvas, 72 1/4 x 60 in. (183.5 x 152.4 cm), collection of Adam Lindemann Venus Over Manhattan, New York hide caption
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Donald Brown organizes postcards inside his home in Myerstown, Pa., on June 24, 2022. Evelyn Freja hide caption
A view of a section of Michael Heizer's City Ben Blackwell/Triple Aught Foundation hide caption
Immerse yourself in this colossal desert 'City' — but leave the selfie stick at home
New father Yappe Pako gets help with his kangaroo care carrier from a midwife. His newborn son is named Ambo Crisostome. They're in the kangaroo care ward at the University Hospital Medical Center at Treichville in the Ivory Coast. A new program teaches the technique to moms and dads. It's especially beneficial for preterm and low birthweight babies. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds for NPR hide caption
People ice skate at a Christmas market at VDNG, the Expocenter of Ukraine, in Kyiv on Dec. 3. Pete Kiehart for NPR hide caption
Jennifer Hadley's overall winning photo of a 3-month-old cub tumbling out of a tree. Jennifer Hadley/Comedy Wildlife 2022 hide caption
A view of the glaciers and mountains from the Gerlache Strait on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula in February 2022. Tyrone Turner hide caption
Maya Lin, in 1988, examining inverted water table being fabricated for the Civil Rights Memorial she designed to be installed in Montgomery, Alabama. Adam Stoltman hide caption
Maya Lin doesn't like the spotlight — but the Smithsonian is shining a light on her
Aerial view of the Jutaí River. Because of the extremely flat terrain, it winds through the forest in snake-like curves. State of Amazonas, 2017. Sebastião Salgado/California Science Center hide caption
In the lush Amazon, a photographer hopes to document life before it is too late
Vanessa Williams recreates a scene from the 1963 historical drama Cleopatra, one of many such re-castings in the new photography book Black Hollywood: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moments. Carell Augustus/Sourcebooks hide caption
This photography book puts Black actors in Hollywood's most iconic movie moments
The devastation on Fort Myers Beach is clear in a view south of Matanzas Pass Preserve. Thomas James for WGCU/NPR hide caption
Left: "You can feel the stares. Yes, I'm here, I'm bald, and I exist. What about it?" Faith Williams Right: "This journey takes you through radical acceptance. You're going outside, showing your true self. I am not hiding." Jennifer Gadosky Paris Benson hide caption
Photographer, filmmaker, painter and graphic designer William Klein at a press event in Paris in 2005. Klein died Saturday at age 96. Pierre Verdy/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Ukrainian refugee Anastasiia Ivanova reads the Bible on the terrace of the apartment in Prudentópolis, Brazil, where she now lives with her mother and siblings. The devout 22-year-old says her faith is what's helped her get through all of her trials. She brought her Bible with her when the family fled Kharkiv. Gabriela Portilho for NPR hide caption
It took astrophotographers Andrew McCarthy and Connor Matherne over nine months to edit their final image. It's comprised of more than 200,000 shots pieced together to make a single photograph. Andrew McCarthy and Connor Matherne hide caption
SeQuoia Kemp advocates for change in maternal care through her work in Syracuse, New York. "We need a radical change in maternity care," Kemp says. "We need help from midwives and OBs who understand that birth is not just physical — it's also psychological — and we need to make sure everybody in the room is ok." Here, she leaves a client's home in Syracuse after a prenatal consultation. Martha Swann-Quinn hide caption
Robert Adams, Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, 1969 gelatin silver print image: 14 x 14.9 cm (5 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.) Private collection, San Francisco. © Robert Adams, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisc hide caption
Fireflies outside Pine Plains, N.Y., in June 2021. "I still can't quite believe that I get to see things like this happen in real time/real life and then get to experience it in a completely new way, all over again, when the images get built," Mauney said. Pete Mauney for NPR hide caption
Harlan shares a collage of images from a family beach trip. She knew she wanted photos of a sandcastle, her family at the beach at dusk, downtime at the house and the cousins playing together in the pool. Creating a "shot list" in advance of images she hoped to capture helped her "leave her trip with no regrets," she says. Photo Illustration by Becky Harlan/NPR hide caption
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes a speech before he was shot from behind by a man in Nara, a city in western Japan, on Friday. The Asahi Shimbun/Reuters hide caption
Wajahat Malik, right, and a Pakistan Navy seaman navigate the Indus River. Malik organized a 40-day expedition down the 2,000-mile river to document "the peoples, the cultures, the biodiversity and just whatever comes our way," he says — including the impact of climate change and pollution. Diaa Hadid/For NPR hide caption
Floating in a rubber dinghy, a filmmaker documents the Indus River's water woes
Pale Octopus Octopus pallidus Specimen #9; mantle is 4.5 inches long; Moonlight Bay Resort, Rye, Victoria, Australia David Liitschwager hide caption
A bridge in Irpin, Ukraine, in April. Vladyslav Krasnoshchok hide caption