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October 7, 2025

World Press Photo Celebrates 70 Years of Photojournalism With Upcoming Print Sale

A picture is worth a thousand words, as the old adage goes, and that is particularly true in the case of photojournalism. In just one image, photojournalists can capture entire worlds that may otherwise have remained hidden, informing the way we encounter and engage with our surroundings. This is exactly the philosophy that has guided World Press Photo since 1955, a nonprofit dedicated to photojournalism and documentary photography.

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Academy

October 7, 2025

Level Up Your Architectural Illustration Skills With This New Online Art Class

Have you ever seen sketches of buildings by Renaissance masters like Brunelleschi or Michelangelo?

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Social Cause

October 6, 2025

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

In 2018, Jessica Wade wrote the first of thousands of Wikipedia articles uplifting female scientists.

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History

October 6, 2025

Man Spent 16 Years Manually Typing Every Number From One to One Million on His Typewriter

Setting goals is a great way to get things done, but not every plan has to make sense to others. An Australian man named Les Stewart is one person who proved that determination can outlast even the strangest ambitions. He set himself the goal of manually typing out every number from one to 1 million on his typewriter.

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Endangered Animals

October 6, 2025

Orangutan Sanctuary Is Giving New Hope To Endangered Primates in Borneo

In just 50 years, or the lifetime of an orangutan, humans have destroyed half of Borneo’s rainforest and thereby endangered...

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Wildlife Photography

October 6, 2025

Wildlife Photography Contest Honors the Resilience of Nature

Every year, the German Society for Nature Photography (GDT)

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Oil Painting

October 6, 2025

Paintings of People Wrapped in Golden “Blankets” Leaves You Guessing What’s Happening [Interview]

Artist David Rice’s oil paintings bring the grace of the Old Masters with a refreshing modern twist. The Portland-based artist creates canvases that range from evocative portraits to stunning still lifes that blend the influence of the area’s landscape. As a multifaceted artist, Rice is a skilled muralist, working on street art pieces in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

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Sculpture

October 6, 2025

Artist Explores Humanity’s Wide Range of Emotions Through Multi-Faced Sculptures

What if the entire range of human emotions could be gleaned all at once, within a single face?

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Street Art

October 5, 2025

New Book Gives an Insider’s Look at London’s Extensive Street Art Culture [Interview]

For nearly 15 years, Giulia Riva has been documenting the global street art scene on her respected blog, BLocal.

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Painting

October 5, 2025

This Artist Has Spent Decades Blurring the Boundaries Between Dreams and Reality

In Fuco Ueda’s artwork, the boundary between dreams and reality is so blurred that it seems pointless to differentiate the two. Girls plunge into the water and rest their heads on beds of anemones; they embrace deer whose antlers are pierced by slabs of meat; and they have keyholes in their temples.

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