This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

People pictures fall into two categories: portraits and candid. Either can be made with or without your subject's awareness and cooperation. However near or far your subject, however intimate or ...

National Geographic is giving some much-deserved recognition to the changemakers who help build a brighter future for the ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a newly drafted George Hirano (left), 18, posed for a portrait with his mother, Hisa Hirano, and father, Yasubei ...

the project is now called the National Geographic Photo Ark. No matter its size, each animal is treated with the same amount of affection and respect. The results are portraits that are not just ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. There are 25 million people in North Korea, but the only visible portraits are of its leaders. Regular people are rarely ...

This story appears in the August 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Inoue finds a way to showcase both with his colorful portraits of insects and other animals made from flowers ...

a fit occasion for a Leonardo portrait. Funded by a National Geographic Society grant, Kemp and Cotte traveled to Warsaw. Cotte's macrophotography revealed that a folio had been removed from the ...

The year was 2006, and National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore wanted to try making formal portraits of animals in captivity instead of his usual shots of them in the wild. For his first ...