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The Future of Digital Photography
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Columbia Vision Laboratory/Columbia University
The camera as we know it is changing: We are already seeing elements of computational photography, which relies on the idea that if you can capture visual data instead of a true image, the picture can be reconstructed with software.
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Budapest. Sept. 5, 2015. A Syrian father, center, slept with his son and other family members on the floor of a bus driving from Budapest to Vienna.
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Mauricio Lima for The New York Times
New York Times editors pore over tens of thousands of the year’s images to come up with the best and strongest collection.
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Homeless Veterans Surviving Rape and Indifference
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Mary F. Calvert
Mary Calvert has made it her mission to document the traumas encountered by female veterans, a group that is the fastest-growing segment of the homeless population.
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Wrestling’s Daily Struggle in Guatemala
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Jorge Luis Chavarria
Although the golden age of professional wrestling has faded in Guatemala, on weekends some hard-core devotees don masks and meet at a garage turned arena.
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Portuguese Migrants Struggle to Find Relief in Angola
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Joan Bardeletti
When Portugal’s economy hit the skids, it sparked a return migration to Angola, its oil-rich former colony. This time, the Europeans are in the subservient role.
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Chinese Adoptees at Home in America
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Meng Han
A chance encounter with several Chinese girls being raised in Montana led Meng Han to explore the world of Chinese adoptees in the United States.
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Documenting Rape in India
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Smita Sharma/Redux
When Smita Sharma photographs rape victims who have been shunned and ostracized in India, she connects with them by sharing her own story of sexual assault.
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Pennsylvania Steel Town Memories
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Pete Marovich
While Pittsburgh enjoys a renaissance, Pete Marovich returned to the nearby steel town of his youth to see how it has coped after its life-sustaining industry fled.
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Japanese-Americans Imprisoned, but Unbowed, During World War II
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Dorothea Lange, Courtesy of the Library of Congress
A photojournalist’s discovery that his father was among thousands of Japanese-Americans confined to internment camps during World War II led him to seek out survivors who had been photographed by Dorothea Lange.
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Photographing the Refugee Trail by Drone
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Rocco Rorandelli
Rocco Rorandelli’s life has been shaped by immigration. But when he decided to photograph the current migrant crisis in Europe, he took a step back and went above, using a drone.
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