In the fourth and final photo essay in our series of work in collaboration with the Magnum Foundation, photojournalist Showkat Nanda has been documenting both the hope and the dashed expectations of young people under lockdown during the pandemic in Ka…
Dawn Raids apology and an injured cat in Turkey: Weekend’s best photos
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The big picture: vodka and sunshine in southern Siberia, 1993
Bertien van Manen snaps five young Russians enjoying a brief escape from the seismic shift in their country’s fortunesIn the years immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen travelled through some of th…
Young photographers reshape our visions of ‘English’ heritage
Migration and the role of women are examined in new exhibitions at historic sites by four artists“I wanted to show people the black Britain I know,” says portrait photographer Kemka Ajoku of his new series, Finding Common Ground.Ajoku is one of four yo…
Twenty photographs of the week
Simone Biles at the Tokyo Olympic Games, migrants in the Mediterranean and forest fires in Athens, California and Siberia: the most striking images from around the world this week Continue reading…
The Guardian view on Wu-Tang Clan’s genius: to make and appreciate art | Editorial
The sale of the only copy of an album for $2m is a reminder that canny rappers understood the artistic value of the original and the authenticWhen Martin Shkreli was convicted of fraud in 2017, the authorities ordered him to give up his assets, which i…
Hemingway ‘wannabes’ celebrate author with lookalike contest
Fans in Nobel prizewinner’s favourite haunt of Key West hold their 40th competition on his birthdayErnest Hemingway is survived as much by his macho mythology as he is by his writing. Hemingway was in two plane crashes in two days. Hemingway shot himse…
Winners of Wellcome Photography Prize 2021 announced
Lockdown knitting self-portrait and images of Indonesian transgender women win first placeImages of an artist knitting in order to get through a lockdown low and a rare glimpse into the lives of transgender women in Jakarta have won one of the most pre…
Hilsa fishing, a giant puppet and Siberian tigers: Wednesday’s best photos
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A young Mexican mourns his teenage cousin: Luis Antonio Rojas’s best photograph
‘Children have to deal with the fallout of the drug trade. They are the ones who can’t walk to their school in safety, who have to train to use a gun’In the mountains of Guerrero in south-west Mexico, there is a small town called Alcozacán. Violence is…