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This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the digital age, when it’s easy to manipulate a photo, it’s harder than ever to ensure that the images we publish ...

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This article appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... so we asked Elizabeth Krist—Lanting’s photo editor for this story—to offer additional detail where appropriate.

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 ...

This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... when a friend sent him a photo of several hornbill heads for sale in West Kalimantan. “It was shocking, ...