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Thiago Bernardes de Souza Moto Cães, 2025 Shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max Brasília’s sky was bright and beautiful on the day Thiago Bernardes de Souza took this shot. Exploring Brazil’s capital city on his motorbike is a pleasure when the weather is like...
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Kelli Radwanski The Boy and The Pig: A Portrait Made Across 600 Miles, 2022 Shot on iPhone 13 Sara Weir’s five children had just woken up and were roaming their home in Nevada when this shot was taken. It was 7am and photographer Kelli Radwanski was...
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Moe Wai Childhood, 2025 Shot on OnePlus 13 As a tuk-tuk driver, Moe Wai feels that he has honed both his observational and people skills. Wai lives and works in Myin Ka Par, a village in Myanmar, and became interested in mobile photography several...
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Sachin Ghai Wings in Concert, 2019 Shot on Realme XT Sachin Ghai describes Yamuna Ghat in Delhi, India, as his idea of a photographer’s paradise. “In winter, thousands of migratory birds circle the wooden row boats on the river,” he says. “During...
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Anne Rayner At Play, 2025 Shot on iPhone 14 Anne Rayner was enjoying a day out with her husband, Bob, and two-yearold granddaughter Phoebe when she took this photo. They had headed into Newcastle city centre to find some fun, while Rayner’s...
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Yuan Li Yellow House, 2025 Shot on Vivo X200 Pro Yuan Li splits his time between two careers: in the winter, he works as a ski instructor; in summer, a photographer. When he took this image, Beijingbased Li was visiting Norway and Iceland with...
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Ahmad Mansour Fishermen of Al Max, 2019 Shot on Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Freelance photographer Ahmad Mansour was visiting Al Max, a fishing neighbourhood in Alexandria, Egypt, when he took this image on his mobile phone. Mansour was there with friends,...
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Roger Tooth Snowy, 2025 Shot on iPhone 13 Twenty years ago, 100 lifesize sculptures were erected across Liverpool’s Crosby beach. Sculptor Antony Gormley had created the figures several years previously, and London-based Roger Tooth had for years...
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Divyanshu Verma The Life of Shadows, 2024 Shot on iPhone 15 Plus Divyanshu Verma regards the north Indian city of Prayagraj as deeply special: not only is it home, it is also where he began his journey into street photography. This image was taken...
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Carril-bici/ Bike lane, 2025 Shot on iPhone 13 Rafael Escobedo de la Riva was heading home from his office in Santa Cruz de Tenerife when he took this image. New bike lanes had been installed and it seemed to be taking drivers time to adjust. “There...
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Aurillac, 2020 Shot on iPhone X Guillaume Lavrut was visiting the small French town of Aurillac with his wife and three children when he took this photo. The town is home to one of the world’s oldest umbrella factories and is regarded by many as the...
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Costume In Costume, 2024 Shot on iPhone 12 Pro Max Costume is a small boutique in Dublin’s city centre, usually fronted with elegant window displays of beautifully dressed mannequins. Last October, however, Marguerite O’Molloy was passing on her way...
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Untitled, 2025 Shot on iPhone 13 Pro Max As a child, Ariel Meyerowitz would follow her famous father around with a little Olympus XA camera and mimic his work as a photographer. Once home, he’d edit the images on a slide projector, inviting his...
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Waiting, 2021 Shot on iPhone X After being recognised at the Mobile Photography awards 2020, Christian Barroso travelled from his home in Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo for the exhibition of winning images. He was joined by three friends and, after...
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The Stare Down, 2025 Shot on iPhone 13 Pro Dorothy O’Donnell begins all her days at home in San Francisco with a coffee and a dog walk. The street photographer lives in North Beach, an area she loves “for its diversity and old San Fran charm. The...
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Marunouchi, Tokyo Shot on iPhone 13 Mini Tokyo-based Kisara Okada was passing through the business district, Marunouchi, on her way to an osteopathy session last month, when the extended neck of a construction crane caught her eye. “In the Meiji era,...
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Wings Over Concrete Shot on iPhone 14 Pro Max Raghuvamsh Chavali was born in Hyderabad, India, and now calls Canada – or more specifically Guelph in Ontario – his home. He describes his adopted city as “a peaceful and friendly place, with a mix of...
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Thrive With Love, 2021 Shot on Samsung Galaxy M20 Sagar Pavale’s cats are sunseekers. Pavale, who lives in Bengaluru, India, had just finished some jobs around the house when he spotted the pair in their favourite spot, on a couch near a...
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Surfer on the Eisbach, Munich, 2025
Visiting Munich, Ed Templeton walked to the city’s Englischer Garten, home to the Eisbach river’s famous artificial wave. “The surfers follow unwritten rules based on respect that are fascinating to watch,” Templeton says. “They line up on either side...
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Ghost Rainbow Outer Hebrides, 2024 Shot on iPhone 11 Bobby Beasley was staying in his 1984 Volkswagen T25 Campervan with girlfriend Rach when he took this photo. The couple were on the Isle of Harris, in the Outer Hebrides. “We’ve both always loved...
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The rocks and stones of Moledo beach, 2024
Adelino Marques was taking a morning walk on the coast near his holiday home in Moledo, north-west Portugal when he took this image. “It’s the northernmost beach in Portugal and is considered one of the most beautiful in the country,” Marques says. “It...
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His usual way of taking photos, Phil Stockbridge says, is like an angler waiting for a fish. The LA-based photographer had been working on a commercial shoot on the day he landed this image. “Usually, when I find something interesting to shoot, the...
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Monster Mansion, 2021
Victor Cheng describes his adopted city as “organised chaos”. The photographer, originally from Toronto but now based in Hong Kong, says that while many people have a stereotypical view of the city, based on classic kung fu movies or Rush Hour, it’s...
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Yellow Cab Red Man, 2024 Shot on iPhone 13 Pro Max Zahyr Caan was on a sightseeing trip to Tokyo when he took this photograph. He was in Ginza, on his way to visit the Gundam statue, having tried Japanese muffins for breakfast at an exclusive...
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Glimpse, 2024 Shot on iPhone 15 Pro Elizabeth Day felt as if she hadn’t seen the sun for decades. It was a gloomy December morning and the podcaster and author was headed towards a London recording studio. On the way, she passed a row of houses being...
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Connemara Ponies, 2025 Shot on iPhone 13 Pro Max “Scrambling to catch this shot felt like 3D chess,” says photographer Mike Wells. “My eyes were balancing Connemara’s famous mountains, its wild ponies and the stone walls, while my mind computed the...
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Hallstatt, Austria, 2017 Shot on iPhone 6S Plus Mustafa Seven and his friend Hazem were attempting to escape the tourists in an Austrian village when they took this image. Rumoured to have inspired Disney’s Frozen, Hallstatt has been known to attract...
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Blossom, 2021 Shot on iPhone 11 Ismail Zaidy took this image in the gardens of the famous La Mamounia hotel in Marrakech. The Moroccan photographer received special authorisation to shoot there in 2021, when Covid restrictions were in place. He took...
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The Faces, 2019 Shot on Huawei Mate 10 For Meysam Hamrang, this image was years in the making. The Iranian photographer took it in 2019 at a religious ceremony in the village of Masuleh, part of a historic city in the northern province of Gilan,...
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Theater District, 2018 Shot on iPhone 8 Plus It had been raining all day in New York City. After meeting a friend in a coffee shop near Manhattan’s Theater District, professional photographer Eric Van Nynatten decided on a spontaneous street...
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Untitled, 2024 Shot on iPhone 15 New York-based photographer Eric Kogan took this picture on a family day of furniture and thrift-store hunting in Shelton, Connecticut, about a 90-minute drive from their Brooklyn home. En route, they stopped off in...
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Watching the Cars Go By, 2024 Shot on iPhone 14 Pro It was the last day of Jennifer Newitt’s holiday in the Swiss Alps, and she and her husband were hankering after one more excursion before their flight home to the US. High above Wengen, the village...
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Public Housing Reflection at Potong Pasir Town, 2019 Shot on iPhone XS Max One morning, Darren Soh drove to the Potong Pasir housing estate in Singapore to take some photos. His initial focus was on the buildings: the government-built blocks, dating...
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Bus 77, 2022 Shot on Apple iPhone 11 The restored heritage village of Old Petrie Town lies a 90-minute drive from the farm in Queensland, Australia, where Karen Weideman lives. She and her husband, Michael, were visiting in 2022 when she took this...
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Tong Ho Chung Howard took this image in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong. He feels passionately about the history of the region where he was born and bred, and had hoped to capture what he regards as one of its most distinctive types of historical...
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Mother Nature, 2017 Shot on Samsung Galaxy S7 Sanket Khuntale describes Pritisangam Gardens in Karad, India as “a go-to hangout spot for everyone in town”. Khuntale lives in Mumbai now, but visits the gardens as a ritual every time he goes home to...
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The Beating Heart of the City, 2022 Shot on iPhone X On the day he took this image, French photographer Michel Kharoubi was on his way to visit his father in a medical retirement home. This was shot in Les Olympiades, in the 13th arrondissement of...
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Prometheus, 2024 Shot on Vivo X60 In a narrow lane in Kolkata, West Bengal, Ankit Ghosh paused for a moment to take this photo. Ghosh was among crowds attending Vijaya Dashami, the last day of the Durga Puja, a festival he describes as “cultural...
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Reflections of a Missed Departure, 2015 Shot on iPhone 7 Plus Nima Bank was meant to be on the plane soaring overhead in this image. Unfortunately, he had been daydreaming in Istanbul airport and lost track of time. Once he realised his error, and...
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Misfit, 2024 Shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max Ieva Gaile didn’t expect to take a photo on her trip to the supermarket. The lawyer, who lives in Vilnius, Lithuania, was working from home and had popped next door for lunch. When she spotted the errant cabbage...
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AGO 18/7/23 Shot on iPhone 12 While in Toronto on a work shoot, Martin James Burton decided to take the opportunity to visit the Art Gallery of Ontario. The Lewes-based photojournalist had some lunch before heading in to see the art. While there he...
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DJ Broken Down, 2024 Shot on iPhone 12 Pro Joshua Hasanoff had been at school on the day he took this photo. The 14-year-old, who lives in Sydney, Australia, is on the shortlist for this year’s Sony World Photography awards youth competition. “The...
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Chicago, July 2024 iPhone 12 Mini On his way to work at a north Chicago public high school, Spiro Bolos has been making a photo series of people on this train station bench. One Sunday afternoon, he saw these young men. The US navy’s largest training...
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A Glance at the Sky, 2024 Shot on iPhone 12 Pro Outside a jeweller’s courtyard in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, Can Manap watched the rain fall. “I was under a huge tree in the middle of the bazaar,” he says. “Watching the droplets fall, the composition –...
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Fly High, 2023 Shot on Oppo Reno 8 University student Pradiptamoy Paul currently lives in Siliguri, West Bengal, but he still regularly visits his home town of Mathabhanga, a few hours’ drive away. On the day he took this photograph, back in 2023, he...
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Here Comes the Rain Again, 2013 Shot on Apple iPhone 4S You’d be forgiven for thinking this shot was taken during the pandemic; an impromptu attempt at masking up, perhaps. Instead, Richard Chambury took it in the spring of 2013, in London’s Victoria...
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Drama in a sunflower garden, 2024 Shot on iPhone 15 Sayan Bose had travelled two hours from his home in Kolkata, India, for a day of documentary photography in Sangrampur, West Bengal. “I was roaming around the village, capturing the local people’s...
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Flowered boy, 2020 Shot on iPhone 7 Diderot Yap had often seen the dainty red flowers of the Ixora coccinea shrub and the larger yellow flowers of the Allamanda plant in his home town of Douala, Cameroon. Heading home from an early morning errand, he...
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Thoughts – Afro Tale, 2020 Shot on iPhone 6s Plus Reginald Kofi Boateng had spent his morning scouting the perfect location and gathering props. “The day was steeped with intention,” says Boateng, who comes from Koforidua, in eastern Ghana and now...
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Two Heads, One Heart, 2021 Samsung Note 20 Ultra 5G Dotun Ajao had been juggling a typical Saturday of errands, chores and caring for his three-year-old son, Ireyao. The tired dad had snuck off for a nap when Ireyao found him, and quietly climbed...
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Langkawi, 2018 Shot on iPhone SE In 2018, when Jan Schölzel was on the Malaysian archipelago of Langkawi, some days were so humid, he found it hard to set foot outside. “It was the hottest place I’ve ever been,” says Schölzel, who lives in Hanover,...
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Ricochet, 2021 Shot on iPhone 7 Architectural photography artist Ömer F Kuranli says that the day he took this shot had got off to a dull start. “I had been immersed in my usual routine, but around midday I headed out with a friend to meet some...
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It was nearly 1am and Jake Polonsky, on the 24th floor of Tower 42 in central London, was three hours away from the end of his day. The director of photography, who has worked on shows including Black Mirror and Billions, had spent the day preparing...
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On a sunny Sunday in June, Spencer Ostrander returned from the local hardware store to find his wife, Sophie, gardening in their back yard in Brooklyn, New York. “I handed her the supplies she needed, and a hot coffee, and she handed over our son,”...
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The heritage steam train that runs from Grosmont to Pickering, in the North York Moors, was stalling Fiona Duncan’s busy morning. It was a few days before Christmas, back in 2018, and Duncan was dashing around Grosmont town centre, picking up...
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IT’S COMPLICATED...
Main portrait: Eirini Vourloumis ‘I don’t think I will ever feel romantic love for Yanna again, but I want to get back together’ – Michael Michael, 55, and Yanna, 50, met in 1995, married in 2001 and broke up six years ago. They live together in...
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GRUMPY? ME?
He’s famed for moody roles and for disparaging his famous co-stars – but don’t be fooled, Brian Cox is a pussycat at heart. He tells Simon Hattenstone about growing up in poverty, smoking weed, falling in love with his wife – and out of love with Labour
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The Greedy Gull, 2021
Photographer Lorraine Poole spotted the seagull before her dad did, busy as he was with his fish and chips. Poole, who is based in Scotland, was enjoying a holiday in South Ayrshire with her parents when she noticed the bird peering through her...
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WINTER IS COMING
Shift your mindset Question your ‘winter blues’ Convinced you suffer from seasonal affective disorder (Sad)? Don’t be so quick, says Kari Leibowitz, winter psychology mindset expert and author of How to Winter: Harnessing Your Mindset to Thrive in...
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How my husband fell for conspiracy theories
It’s a unicorn of a summer’s day in 2020; the kind that demands factor 50 and flip-flops. I’m being driven around my neighbourhood by my husband, Arlo, my hair pulled up off my neck and a cool can of something fizzy in my hand. My daily medication has...
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Red Carpet (Folasade Series), 2024 Shot on iPhone 12 Pro The photographer Mayowa Lawal has lived in Lagos, Nigeria most of his life. It’s a place he describes as highly influential on his creativity, but he wonders whether his environment has placed...
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BEYOND BELIEF
Growing up in the Welsh valleys, Hollywood action hero Luke Evans knew he was different - and not just because his parents were devout Jehovah’s Witnesses. He talks to Simon Hattenstone about religion, rebelling – and why he had to come out twice At...
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A WOMAN POSSESSED
Daisy May Cooper has been through divorce, dating and a near-death experience, and now she’s hearing voices from the other side. Has the creator of This Country lost her mind? She tells Rhik Samadder about her growing obsession with the paranormal
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AFTER THE FALL
somehow that would have made it better. The writer is talking about the accident that left him a tetraplegic. Or, as he likes to call himself with classic Kureishian brutality, a vegetable. Though he’s not. His body may be broken, but his brain...
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