WEIRD PHOTOS
An 1818 map of western Africa shows the continent bisected by the mythical ‘Mountains of Kong’, based on the explorations of Mungo Park. Image: John Pinkerton’s A Modern Atlas via Wikimedia Commons – By James Cheshire, Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography, Department …
Andrew Rowley watches a wildfire burning from a distance after evacuating his home in Spokane, Wash., on 2026 Aug 01. AP Photo/Young Kwak – By Mojtaba Sadegh, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University; United Nations University And by John Abatzoglou, Professor of …
Animal Behavior: “Strutting Tern” (Lord Howe Island, NSW), by Georgina SteytlerGeorgina Steytler/Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year/South Australian Museum. View 29 Images – By Bronwyn Thompson 2026 Jun 21 – Charged with sorting through 2,129 images from more than 500 people, judges have …
The four presidents sit above one of the world’s most curious theme parks. Window of the World/New Atlas – View 42 Images – By Bronwyn Thompson 2026 Apr 07 – Mount Rushmore may have its home in South Dakota, but it’s also in Shenzhen, …
“Fishing Together,” Myanmar National winner, Sony World Photography Awards 2026. Kyaw Zayar Lin – View 11 Images – By Abhimanyu Ghoshal 2026 Mar 21 – The Sony World Photography Awards competition has been attracting immensely talented creatives from across the globe since 2008, and …
Artists have represented human bodies without clothes for a very long time. Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC BY – By Anna Swartwood House, Associate Professor of Art History, University of South Carolina Published: 2026 Mar 02 – Curious Kids is a series for children …
Lorea Hausheer (Switzerland) – Shortlist, Open Competition in Motion. Lorea Hausheer/Sony World Photography Awards 2026 – View 14 Images – By Bronwyn Thompson 2026 Mar 10 – The Sony World Photography Awards, put together by the World Photography Organisation, are now in their …
Milko Marchetti – Stuck Squirrel. Milko Marchetti View 18 Images – By Abhimanyu Ghoshal 2024 Dec 11 – It can take hours – and sometimes several days – in the wilderness to shoot the kinds of photographs that capture our imagination and reveal lesser-known …
Honorable Mention: Crystalline pattern, like the big cotton padded jacket pattern handed down during the Chinese Spring Festival. Ji Yuan View 16 Images – By Michael Irving 2024 Nov 15 – An annual photography competition, celebrating scientific microscopic images, has unveiled this year’s winners. …
Minghui Yuan – Cleaners in the Rainforest. Minghui Yuan / CUPOTY View 19 Images – By Abhimanyu Ghoshal 2024 Oct 29 – It’s that time of the year again. We’ve got our hands on the shortlisted pictures from the 2024 Close-up Photographer of the …
