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Woman in the bath

When home is both prison and sanctuary

Photographer Jo De Banzie records life during the coronavirus lockdown, using an antique camera.

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Woman in the bath

When home is both prison and sanctuary

Photographer Jo De Banzie records life during the coronavirus lockdown, using an antique camera.

Woman in the bath

When home is both prison and sanctuary

Photographer Jo De Banzie records life during the coronavirus lockdown, using an antique camera.

Frank Sinatra and The RatPAck

Terry O'Neill: Capturing celebrity

An exhibition brings together the late photographer Terry O'Neill's memories behind his celebrity images.

A child in brightly coloured clothes stands next to a multi-coloured wall.

Africa's top shots: Hidden smiles and golden guns

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.

Portrait of dancing clown in Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico, 2016

Clowns, culture and coronavirus in Latin America

Caribbean and Latin American photography features in the third Annual Latin American Foto Festival.

A blind woman stands with her walking cane whilst wearing a face mask and gloves

Portrait of life under Covid for visually impaired

A photo series highlights the challenges faced by those with visual impairment in Italy.

Ultraviolet image of the Sun

Closest ever pictures taken of the Sun

The European Solar Orbiter probe captures images just 77 million km from the Sun's surface.

(L to R) Amilah Majid, Esme Duckworth, Abdi Sughal, Amy Lorrimer, Jay Kundu, Hamza Saraj, Morgan Foord and project leader Carolyn Mendelsohn in Shipley

Photos show 'untold stories' of teens' lockdown

A city-wide exhibition featuring photos taken by young people during lockdown opens in Bradford.

Frank Sinatra and The RatPAck

Terry O'Neill: Capturing celebrity

An exhibition brings together the late photographer Terry O'Neill's memories behind his celebrity images.

A child in brightly coloured clothes stands next to a multi-coloured wall.

Africa's top shots: Hidden smiles and golden guns

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.

Portrait of dancing clown in Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico, 2016

Clowns, culture and coronavirus in Latin America

Caribbean and Latin American photography features in the third Annual Latin American Foto Festival.

A blind woman stands with her walking cane whilst wearing a face mask and gloves
Ultraviolet image of the Sun
(L to R) Amilah Majid, Esme Duckworth, Abdi Sughal, Amy Lorrimer, Jay Kundu, Hamza Saraj, Morgan Foord and project leader Carolyn Mendelsohn in Shipley

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Wax print: Africa's pride or colonial legacy?

Shoppers in MMIlton Keynes

The first thing I bought when the shops reopened

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On patrol with the locust hunters

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Coronavirus: Dressing up in isolation

Week in pictures

Beads of sweat run down the forehead of a healthcare worker wearing protective gear
A dog is examined by vets
A woman takes a selfie with a large mural of Van Gogh
A child carries a kite depicting an Indonesian ghost
A girl looks through an eclipse viewer on an elevated, transparent platform, with buildings and roads in the distance below her
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Your pictures on the theme of 'reflections'

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We set the theme, you take the pictures

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Latest Updates

Thanks spud: Potato haircut shot wins award

This shot of a spud getting its haircut earned a photography lecturer a top award.

Ray Spence is 2020's potato photographer of the year after he entered his shot in a competition set up to raise money for the Trusell Trust.

Ray Spence's award winning photo of the potato
Ray Spence

Titled 'The end of lockdown', Mr Spence said the idea came while he was chitting his potato crop at his allotment in Warwick.

The judging panel, which included celebrated photographers Martin Parr and Paul Hill, recognised Mr Spence's photo as "delightful, imaginative and .... a bit bonkers".

Like his subject, Mr Spence has been able to get to the barber since lockdown eased however his muse has "since been disposed of in the compost".

Winning space photos

Space photographer David Malin has held a competition to inspire other astrophotographers
David Malin has spent four decades taking photographs of deep space. His work led to the invention of new imaging techniques and the discovery of the largest-known spiral galaxy - 'Malin-1'.

Now retired, he has held a competition in Sydney, Australia, to inspire the next generation of astrophotographers.

(Image: Metallic Rose, Credit: Tim Carruthers.)

Video by Jennifer Green.

'I am here today because another man died'

Iraq War: 'I am here today because another man died'
A photographer's decision to capture an image during the Iraq War changed not only his life - but the lives of the marines with him.

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