Inspiration

For the past two years, photographer Lisa Kristine has traveled the world, documenting the unbearably harsh realities of modern-day slavery. She shares hauntingly beautiful images — miners in the Congo, brick layers in Nepal —…

TED Talks In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine -- and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame.

Susan Leonard, Aurora Borealis Over Glacier Lagoon. Yevhen Samuchenko, Dreams of Lighthouse. Shaden Zarraq, Watching the Extraordinary Red View of Sunset in Dead Sea. Shelley Rae, The Grotto At Night. Bill Boswell, Painted Ladies of San Francisco. Cindy Bosveld, Kwinana…

Nature photographer Frans Lanting uses vibrant images to take us deep into the animal world. In this short, visual talk he calls for us to reconnect with other earthly creatures, and to shed the metaphorical…

"Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit," says surf photographer Chris Burkard, as he explains his obsession with the coldest, choppiest, most isolated beaches on earth.…

10 Stunning examples of Indian street photography to get your creativity flowing.

This magical image was entered into our bi-monthly photography competition 'Life After Dark'. It was chosen as our Pic of the Week as it's a great example of low…

We've heard that bees are disappearing. But what is making bee colonies so vulnerable? Photographer Anand Varma raised bees in his backyard - in front of a camera - to get an up close view.…

When photographed under a 3D microscope, grains of sand appear like colorful pieces of candy and the stamens in a flower become like fantastical spires at an amusement park. Gary Greenberg reveals the thrilling details…

When Jimmy Nelson traveled to Siberia to photograph the Chukchi people, elders told him: "You cannot photograph us. You have to wait, you have to wait until you get to know us, you have to…