In Pictures

Challenging African-American stereotypes

The portrait photographers examine how African-Americans are perceived in art, the workplace, and through their physical appearance.

Hurricane Florence hits the US east coast

A selection of striking images from the day Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina.

The best news photos from the past week

A selection of the best news photographs from around the world, taken over the past week.

Africa's top shots: Dancing twins and falling buildings

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere this week.

  • 14 September 2018
  • From the section Africa

World leaders bid farewell to Kofi Annan

Moving tributes for the first black African UN leader at his funeral in Ghana

  • 13 September 2018
  • From the section Africa

Spectacular super bloom transforms desert

Photographer Tommy Trenchard captures South Africa's wild flowers

Features

The women unsafe in their own homes

  • 7 September 2018

I'm 24, but I’m not ready to 'adult' yet

  • 12 July 2018

The children shunned for being 'witches'

  • 26 June 2018

Living on a rock in the North Atlantic

  • 22 May 2018

What some women have to put in their underwear

  • 12 April 2018

Making Meghan's dress

  • 17 May 2018

Our Experts

A suitcase full of photographic wonder

A treasure trove of quirky street photographs by John Turner capture London's past.

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