Photography

Portfolio Award Winner: The ancient mariner. Pangatalan Island, Palawan, the Philippines. The tri-spine horseshoe crab has survived for more than 100 million years but now faces habitat destruction and overfishing for food and for its blood, used in the development of vaccines. Laurent Ballesta/Wildlife Photographer of the Year hide caption

A researcher typed sentences like "Black African doctors providing care for white suffering children" into an artificial intelligence program designed to generate photo-like images. The goal was to flip the stereotype of the "white savior" aiding African children. Despite the specifications, the AI program always depicted the children as Black. And in 22 of over 350 images, the doctors were white. Midjourney Bot Version 5.1. Annotation by NPR. hide caption

Charloth Chirino poses for a portrait in her apartment in Medellín. Originally from Maracaibo, Venezuela, Charloth has been living in Colombia for seven years, three of those in Medellín. She has lived her life as a proud trans woman since she was 15 years old, when she also began working as a sex worker. Lexi Parra for NPR hide caption

Philip Bermingham, who is 6'4", shot this portrait of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg after crawling down to the ground below her, to make it easier for the diminutive Ginsburg to look directly into the lens. Courtesy Philip Bermingham hide caption

Néema Byanyira, 25, a mom of three, is rarely without her umbrella when she's on the move. She brings it to market, to church and to visit her sister. Esther N'sapu for NPR hide caption

Karl Ohiri: Untitled, from "The Archive of Becoming." Ohiri features old negatives and prints that have been transformed by heat, humidity and time. Karl Ohiri hide caption

Trying to set up Ant-Man on my controller. Jamal Michel hide caption

Rice mill workers start their day at the break of dawn. Some of them boil the paddy rice. Others carry it and spread it outside the rice mill to dry in the sun. To make sure that it dries properly, they rake it out, then sweep it back. Md Tanveer Hassan Rohan hide caption

(L-R): Miss June, Crystal Diamond; Miss July, Xola Tatubana; Miss April, Britney Misty Daniels in their evening wear outfits at Kersefontein Guest Farm in South Africa in 2019. Julia Gunther hide caption

A woman walks between tents that house the hospital wards at a camp for displaced persons in South Sudan. The photo was taken in February. David P. Gilkey/NPR hide caption