Category Archives: pictures

Postcards from Cuba: street life scenes of Havana – in pictures

Fifteen years after he first visited as a student of hispanic studies, photographer Matt Humphrey returned to Cuba earlier this year, eager to capture images of the country before the end of the Castro era

All the fun of the fringe: Edinburgh festival 2015 – in pictures

Photographer Murdo MacLeod has been snapping the clowns, robots, fauns and performers at large at the world’s biggest arts festival

Winners of the National Geographic Photo Contest 2015 – in pictures

A humpback whale and her newborn calf scooped the first prize in National Geographic’s annual photography competition. More than 17,000 entries were submitted, whittled down to three winners and seven recognised on merit

Beauty in ruins: abandoned places in Europe and Asia – in pictures

The ghost town of Pripyat, near Chernobyl, and derelict sites around Europe and central Asia became evocative locations for urban explorer David de Rueda on a six-week tour discovering hidden relics of the recent past