Photography

December 9, 2025

Royal Photographic Society Announces 2025 Winners of the World’s Longest-Running Photo Prize

The world’s longest-running photography prize has recently announced its winners for 2025. The Royal Photographic Society (RPS) was founded in 1853—when photography was brand new—with the mission to make the art and science of the medium available to all. It’s kept that tradition for well over a century and a half; through its 2025 competition winners, the various possibilities of the format are highlighted and celebrated.

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November 29, 2025

This Pilot Captured Stunning Footage of Daybreak While Landing a Plane in Munich

Just as the day was breaking on a quiet morning in January, a pilot saw an opportunity. He was flying a plane onto runway 08L at Munich Airport when he realized he should film the descent. Months later, the pilot, who goes by Air Principito on Instagram, shared the final footage on social media. The result is a snapshot of a stunning, almost heavenly landscape, shrouded in a delicate mist.

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November 26, 2025

Ansel Adams Photos Capture Daily Life Inside Japanese Internment Camps During WWII

The establishment of Japanese internment camps is arguably one of the darkest moments in American history. Between 1942 and 1946, about 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly relocated into these concentration camps. This was done out of unfounded suspicions that Japanese Americans might act as saboteurs or spies following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

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November 20, 2025

Incredible Photo Captures Skydiver Silhouetted in Front of the Sun

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has taken some incredible photos, but his newest is perhaps his most impressive—and artistic—to date. The Fall of Icarus, created in collaboration with skydiver Gabriel C. Brown, is a spectacular image that celebrates the incredible things that humans can accomplish. In the image, we see Brown tumbling toward Earth, silhouetted against the sun’s chromosphere. The photograph is so audacious that one could ask if it’s even real—and it very much is!

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