[photopress:phot.jpg,full,centered] At left is the witness's drawing; Bolivian law prohibits revealing the identity of the suspect, so media outlets covered his face with the sketch, right. Reason #381 why you should always have your camera with you: earlier this year Bolivian police issued a statement asking people to come forward who might have seen a

[photopress:leopard_seals.jpg,full,centered] Up close and personal with a playful Leopard Seal in Antarctica. Photo by Paul Nicklen. Paul Nicklen is used to getting the tough shots. Born and raised in one of the only non-Inuit families in a small Arctic village in Northern Canada, he cut his teeth amid frozen tundras and slippery ice floes, and

[photopress:15456523.jpg,full,centered] Christensen hopes to show the effects of climate change through photos like the one above. As a veteran supermodel, Helena Christensen knows she doesn't have to do much more than just sit back and look pretty. Still, she wants to make a difference. The celebrity model traveled to Peru recently, armed with a camera

[photopress:FE_PR_091109milkyway.jpg,full,centered] X-ray and infrared light peer through celestial dust to reveal the core of our galaxy. A new image pulled from three high-powered telescopes offers a never-before-seen view of the insides of our Milky Way Galaxy. The Hubble and Spitzer telescopes and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have joined forces to bring us an incredible image

[photopress:kutcher_contest.jpg,full,centered] A snapshot of Ashton Kutcher's entry in the Nikon Film Festival Twitter users may be able to microblog their thoughts at less than 140 characters, but can they put all that on film? In a new short film contest from camera-maker Nikon, budding filmmakers are challenged to submit their own videos of 140 seconds

[photopress:20091020luguang26.jpg,full,centered] Migrant worker, April 10th, 2005. Photo by Lu Guang Though China may be a growing superpower in the world economy, not everyone is happy about the side effects unleashed in the country's wake. In a new collection of photographs, the spotlight is put on the dark and dirty side of China's rise to the

[photopress:ramones.jpg,full,centered] "The Ramones" by Ian Dickson (1977). Photo: Ian Dickson In a new exhibition of rock and roll photography in New York City, the focus falls not on the rock stars, but on the photographers. The Brooklyn Museum's "Who Shot Rock N Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present" offers up almost 200 photographs

[photopress:oswald_l.jpg,full,centered] Lee Harvey Oswald in his backyard. According to a Dartmouth computer scientist, the infamous photograph of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle in his backyard would have been almost impossible to fake. After being arrested and charged with the murder of President John F. Kennedy, Oswald was interrogated by Dallas police and

[photopress:paralympian.jpg,full,centered]  Paul Floyd Blake's portrait of Rosie Bancroft. Photograph: National Portrait Gallery/PA Paul Floyd Blake's touching portrait of Rosie Bancroft, a disabled swimmer with Olympic dreams, has won one of the world's top photography competitions. And he did it all with the use of 100 year-old technology. The National Portrait Gallery's annual Photographic Portrait Prize

[photopress:china.jpg,full,centered] Photography, like many other art forms, has long been the realm of the individual artist. But with projects like the one in Guangzhou, China, it may actually help bring entire communities together. "Guangzhou Supports You!" is a crowdsourced, grass-roots photography activity in China that asks residents to contribute to an online forum with pictures