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 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 ...

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 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 January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... we went to eight countries and shot portraits of 80 nine-year-olds, who talked to us in brave and honest ways ...

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 ...

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.

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... I went back two years later to shoot a series of portraits. Flowers are used for everything in India, from festivals ...