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 ...

Tunnel VisionWith a camera taped to the front of his scooter, Your Shot photographer Lex Schulte captured a self-portrait as he drove to work. Schulte's photo was chosen by National Geographic ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... He gave his shirt to his brother, who sat for both portraits. Their mom wasn’t fooled: She spotted the mosquito ...

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 ...

Photographers for National Geographic spend a lot of time doing ... of a jack-of-all-trades—you need to be able to photograph portraits, landscapes, and everything in between.

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 ...

Who better to help solve the selfie situation than a National Geographic photographer? Erika Larsen has traveled from Peru to Scandanavia to Hawaii photographing people—and that includes selfies ...

This story appears in the March 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Arndt shot more than 60,000 pictures, creating a portrait of wild honeybees unlike anything seen before.