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Bobby kisses Cortez udring a play fight at the barracks of Second Platoon at the Korengal Outpost.
Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan.
June 2008.

Tim Hetherington

A conflict photographer captures a moment of brotherhood between two soldiers

At an outpost in Afghanistan’s eastern Korengal Valley, in the midst of a heightened American military campaign, two soldiers appear to be fighting — each other.

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A sultry kiss, flipped — the artist turning found photographs into uncanny new images

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Jo Ann Callis/Courtesy ROSEGALLERY

This uncomfortable portrait of femininity has resonated for four decades

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How this dream-like photo challenges notions of the male gaze

She was a pioneering newspaper publisher in a room full of men. In history, she wasn’t alone

This photo of a kiss is a modern allegory for queer Black love

This Pacific Indigenous artist’s photo reveals the truth about a Gauguin painting

Famous Frames

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David LaChapelle/Courtesy VISU Contemporary

David?LaChapelle’s controversial high fashion hurricane, two decades on

Revisiting the photographer’s apocalyptic images in Vogue Italia, which nearly became his final editorial shoot.

Wall running is part of the training regimen of young practitioners learning martial arts at a training institute in China. This photo, provided courtesy of Magnum Photos, was taken at Shaolin Academy, Henan Province, China in 2004.

Steve McCurry / Magnum Photos

China’s Shaolin monks are known for their incredible acrobatics. This photographer captured them in action

American actress Faye Dunaway takes breakfast by the pool with the day's newspapers at the Beverley Hills Hotel, 29th March 1977. She seems less than elated with her success at the previous night's Academy Awards ceremony, where she won the 1976 Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for 'Network'.

Terry O'Neill/iconicimagesgallery.com

Why this morning-after portrait of Faye Dunaway became an iconic Hollywood moment

When Tracey Emin became Frida Kahlo: Mary McCartney’s take on two radical artists

The ‘Blue Marble’: One of Earth’s most iconic images, 50 years on

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Courtesy Amy Sherald/Hauser & Wirth

How artist Amy Sherald reimagined history’s most famous kiss

‘Napalm Girl’ at 50: The story of the Vietnam War’s defining photo

Around the Globe

"La ciudad amurallada era una especie de piedra de toque arquitectónico en términos de lo que una ciudad puede ser, no planificada, autogenerada, no regulada", dice el fotógrafo Greg Girard.

What this playful photo reveals about Hong Kong’s infamous ‘Walled City’

The story behind a portrait of one of the few young, female truckers in France

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Why this artist photographed herself at dizzying heights

An elegant portrait of a pole dancer in Oman celebrates a woman’s strength in nature

The story behind this surreal portrait of Ethiopian identity

A man holds a Coca-Cola bottle outside the Forbidden City in 1981.

Liu Heung Shing

Why this photo of a man with a Coca-Cola bottle symbolized a cultural shift in China

More SNAPS

A photo of male intimacy in 1980s India that’s more subversive than it seems

Willie Christie

A fashion love story, on both sides of the camera

A radical vision of a Black lesbian beauty pageant

A powerful portrait of motherhood and exotic dancing

A Ukrainian photographer’s love letter to his homeland

‘How to make applesauce’: A photograph that made time stand still