Photography

August 20, 2025

Incredible Finalists of the 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year Contest

Oceanographic Magazine has sifted through thousands of entrants and narrowed down the finalists of its Ocean Photographer of the Year contest. Presented together with Blancpain, the competition celebrates the beauty of our ocean and highlights why it must be protected at all costs. The 2025 finalists are spread across seven categories that include everything from photographs of extraordinary wildlife to a look at the environmental impact humans have on the ocean.

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August 13, 2025

Couple Creates Epic Proposal Photos in Front of an Active Volcano in Hawaii

We’ve seen some unique proposals, but nothing quite like what Mark Stewart had in store. The photographer was vacationing in Hawaii with long-time girlfriend Olivia Post and planned the perfect scene to pop the big question. After setting up his camera for a time-lapse, he led her to the road just in front of the active Kilauea volcano and got down on one knee.

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August 12, 2025

NASA Releases Closest-Ever Photos of the Sun Shot With the Parker Solar Probe

Since its original launch in 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has completed several orbits around the sun, gradually moving closer and closer with each trip. In 2021, it became the first spacecraft to fly through the corona (the sun’s upper atmosphere), facing what NASA calls “brutal heat and radiation” for the sake of invaluable interstellar insights. But it was only late last year that the probe achieved one of its greatest feats to date.

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August 7, 2025

Yancey Richardson Celebrates 30 Years With Stunning Photography Exhibition

In 1995, Yancey Richardson opened her eponymous gallery in New York’s SoHo neighborhood. It didn’t take long for her to relocate to Chelsea, a neighborhood that, by then, many other gallerists had already flocked to. Over the course of the next three decades, Richardson managed to stage nearly 300 exhibitions, each zooming in on contemporary photography with unprecedented focus. Now, the gallery is marking 30 years—all while getting its artists more involved than ever.

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