Photography

Art Photo Index (API) is a visual index of important art and documentary photographers, their images and their websites from throughout the world. The photographers included in Art Photo Index have been selected as a result of their accomplishments in the art or documentary photography field.

Find photo essays, slideshows, and featured galleries of images. Includes journalism photography and user-generated content.

An annual contest by the National Press Photographers Association that showcases exemplary photo, video, and web site work. You can browse past winners by category (Best Photojournalism of the Year, Best Published Picture Story, etc.) but you cannot search by picture content or even by photographer name.

A photo blog created by a select group of picture editors of The Boston Globe. Highlights high-quality, amazing imagery, with a focus on current events. The large-format photos are a pleasure to review.

CatchLight is a transformational force, urgently bringing resources and organizations together to nurture and grow a thriving visual ecosystem that supports, develops and amplifies the work of impactful visual storytellers and innovative leaders in the field of visual storytelling.

The Documentary Photography Project uses exhibits, workshops, grantmaking, and public programs to explore how photography can shape public perception and effect social change. The project supports photographers whose work addresses social justice and human rights issues that coincide with OSI's mission of promoting and expanding open society. (Note: Open Society Initiative is a grantmaking foundation established by investor George Soros aimed to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform.)

Photo essays, video, audio, and more from Human Rights Watch, an independent organization dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.

The photojournalism blog of The New York Times. Presents photography, video, and visual journalism.

The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.

Magnum has documented most of the world’s major events and personalities since the 1930s; covering industry, society and people, places of interest, politics and news events, disasters and conflict. In short, when you picture an iconic image, but can’t think who took it or where it can be found, it probably came from Magnum.

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News21 is a program of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation that is helping to change the way journalism is taught in the U.S. and train a new generation of journalists capable of reshaping the news industry. It is headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. The site includes the results of national investigations conducted by students.

A website that hosts online exhibits of documentary photography concerned with the human condition.