The new book In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits pulls hundreds of photos from the magazine's vast archives. Hear NPR's Alex Chadwick, the book's editor, Leah Bendavid-Val, and Ashley ...

Rolia Manyongai-Jones, Portland, Oregon, 2014 Photograph by Sandy Banister, National Geographic Your Shot. ... Here, Sikh women and men prayed in the same room. I loved this portrait.

Book: In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits, edited by Leah Bendavid-Val ...

Photographer Alison Wright shares the stunning portraits taken during her travels around the world—and the stories behind the photos. September 3, 2013 National Geographic Expeditions ...

These radiant portraits show women as they want to be seen At a Ugandan center for women with special needs, a photographer asked her subjects how they wished to be depicted: Capable, equal, and ...

Bendavid-Val, editor of [In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits], moderated the discussion. The book is a retrospective of portrait photography spanning more than ten decades of images ...

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore is halfway through a multiyear effort to document our planet’s incredible biodiversity by creating portraits of approximately 12,000 species of animals.

Just months before Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, National Geographic journalists documented the lives of young people struggling for a better future. Qari Mehrabuddin, a pro-government militia ...

Rare Wildlife Portraits From Photographers Who Click Together Photographers Uri Golman and Helle Olsen travel the world to capture images of endangered species and threatened habitats. By Gary Strauss ...

Getting more than 5,000 animals to cooperate for portraits is no easy task, but for National Geographic photographer and wildlife conservationist Joel Sartore, it was a worthy cause. Sartore began ...