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• Full transparency: the everyday art of glassware – in pictures

  03-06-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  For several years now, artist Eunkyoung Son, who lives in Seoul, has explored her fascination with glass in a series of striking illustrations. The fine art graduate depicts of all kinds of glassware with oil pencils and acrylic paint, from champagne flutes to tumblers, focusing on finding beauty in the everyday. “Glass has a different colour or shape depending on the angle,” she says. “I love that it distorts the things behind it, not reflecting them in its form directly. It f
  
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• Ethereal beauty: Milky Way photographer of the year 2023 – in pictures

  02-06-2023 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Travel blog Capture the Atlas has crowned its best Milky Way photographs of the year. This year’s shots captured the galaxy glowing above dramatic landscapes in Namibia, Chile, Japan, Spain, Iran and New Zealand Continue reading...
  
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• Joe Biden and a sculpture in London: Friday’s best photos

  02-06-2023 16:07 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Protecting Bosnia and Herzegovina’s anti-fascist legacy: Mostar’s Partisan Memorial Cemetery

  02-06-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The most significant anti-fascist architectural landmark in the former Yugoslavia has been neglected and left as a ruin for decades. Having survived the 1990s Bosnian war, the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar now faces its biggest threat – and possible disappearance – as organised neofascists are intent on destroying the necropolis and all it stands for. A small group of residents and activists are fighting to protect the cemetery and its history for future generations, but with
  
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• Pastel-coloured homes for sale – in pictures

  02-06-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From a pink Grade II-listed ‘gingerbread’ cottage to a sky-blue city terrace Continue reading...
  
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• Africa's week in pictures: 26 May-1 June 2023

  02-06-2023 01:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week.
  
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• Protests, ports and patriotic shoes: Thursday’s best photos

  01-06-2023 15:20 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Art of the possible: the best of the free London Gallery Weekend – in pictures

  01-06-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From Chris Ofili’s latest paintings to some seriously hardcore sculpture, the capital’s finest galleries have united to offer a public art extravaganzaLondon Gallery Weekend, 2-4 June Continue reading...
  
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• Women’s World Cup 2023: Sarina Wiegman’s England squad – in pictures

  31-05-2023 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The Lionesses head coach has gone for a blend of youth and experience as the European champions head to Australia and New Zealand Continue reading...
  
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• Beyoncé and World Parrot Day: Wednesday’s best photos

  31-05-2023 13:56 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Manhattanhenge sunset lights up New York sky – in pictures

  31-05-2023 10:51 via theguardian.com
  
  This week New Yorkers celebrated the first Manhattanhenge of 2023. During the biannual celestial event the setting sun lines up between skyscrapers and bathes the city in a golden glow Continue reading...
  
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• Kiss fans, Poundland and Grenfell Tower: modern Britain – in pictures

  31-05-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From the rockers at Donington to Ladies’ Dat at Aintree, and from donkey rides and car boot fairs to Eid al-Fitr celebrations and the 2012 Olympics, Simon Roberts has spent 15 years taking the pulse of his home nation Continue reading...
  
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• Manhattanhenge: New Yorkers gather for city spectacle

  31-05-2023 05:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The phenomenon drew locals and tourists alike to capture the perfect photo on Monday and Tuesday evening.
  
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• In pictures: Windrush generations mark 75th anniversary

  31-05-2023 01:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jim Grover's photographs mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush.
  
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• Australia’s best photos of the month – May 2023

  30-05-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Fire engulfs a Sydney CBD building, protesters make their presence felt and captivating cultural events. May’s most striking imagesA decade through the lens of Guardian Australia’s Mike Bowers Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Continue reading...
  
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• Senegal protests and a Comic Con dinosaur: Tuesday’s best photos

  30-05-2023 16:12 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Protests in Senegal and a Comic-Con dinosaur: Tuesday’s best photos

  30-05-2023 14:50 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Burning ambition: the life of an artisanal charcoal maker – in pictures

  30-05-2023 12:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Darryl Kelbrick shows Christopher Thomond the painstaking process behind artisan charcoal burning, a practice he has spent the last decade learning in an ancient coppiced woodland where he lives with his partner off-grid Continue reading...
  
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• ‘They could disappear overnight’: rare Italian deer make long journey to survival

  30-05-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Under an ambitious conservation plan, 60 Mesola red deer are being moved from northern Italy to Calabria, where it is hoped they will thrive and multiplyIn a meadow in northern Italy, the fog engulfs a forklift truck putting long, narrow boxes inside a green mounted police transporter. Small openings in the crates reveal the fearful looks of stocky deer, their antlers sawn off to prevent injury during transport. It will be a long trip, more than 1,000km (620 miles) and almost 20 hours of driving
  
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• Merry across the Mersey: Tom Wood’s visions of Liverpool – in pictures

  30-05-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From buzzing match days at Anfield to couples snogging during nights out on the Wirral, a new retrospective of Tom Wood’s work highlights his bond with the city Continue reading...
  
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• Newport: Photographer blends love of Africa with Welsh communities

  29-05-2023 20:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Glenn Edwards was a steelworker before finding a love for photography by chance.
  
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• Cannes film festival: the best red carpet looks part two – in pictures

  29-05-2023 18:28 via theguardian.com
  
  From Julia Garner’s old-Hollywood glamour to Elsa Hosk’s optical illusion gown, from feathers to the burnt to the bin-bag look, fashion’s ingenuity shone bright Continue reading...
  
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• A decade through the lens of Guardian Australia photographer Mike Bowers – in pictures

  29-05-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From the furnace of federal politics to fires, droughts and floods, Guardian Australia’s photographer-at-large captures 10 years of tumult and triumph10 years of Guardian Australia’s best photography – in pictures Continue reading...
  
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• Burning flags and big red lips: Monday’s best photos

  29-05-2023 14:15 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Getxophoto festival – in pictures

  29-05-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Work by more than 20 photographers from countries including Switzerland, Japan, Morocco, Ecuador, Mexico, Argentina, the UK and Brazil is displayed at the annual photography festival in Getxo in the Basque Country, close to Bilbao, Spain from 1 to 25 June. The theme of Getxophoto is PAUSE, understood as a potentially revolutionary gesture at a time of hyper-productivity and permanent connection Continue reading...
  
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• Illuminating the harbour city: Vivid Sydney opening weekend 2023 – in pictures

  29-05-2023 02:42 via theguardian.com
  
  The annual festival of light, music and ideas kicks off for its 13th year in spectacular fashion Sydney’s abandoned train tunnels transformed into light spectacle for VividGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Continue reading...
  
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• Dancing devils and zen frogs: the weekend’s best photos

  28-05-2023 16:26 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Photographing history: The quarrymen of Wales

  28-05-2023 13:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Photographer Carwyn Rhys Jones captures the men who spent their working lives in Welsh quarries.
  
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• The quilt environment: imaginary spaces rendered in fabric – in pictures

  27-05-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  British artist Kate Williams makes large-scale, wall-hung quilts depicting imaginary postmodern buildings in empty landscapes, which she describes as “De Chirico transplanted to 1980s Miami”. “I’m interested in artifice and illusion, and in the playfulness of both postmodern architecture and 18th-century trompe l’oeil,” she says. “I hope there’s something mildly unsettling about these designs.” Continue reading...
  
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• Ten years of Guardian Australia’s best photography – in pictures

  27-05-2023 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We look back at some of the images – and photographers – that have helped define the past decadeA decade through the lens of Guardian Australia photographer Mike BowersTen years of Guardian Australia’s most impactful journalism Continue reading...
  
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• 10 years of Guardian Australia’s best photography – in pictures

  27-05-2023 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We look back at some of the images – and photographers – that have helped define the past decadeGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Continue reading...
  
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• 20-26 May 2023

  27-05-2023 01:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A selection of striking images from around the world, taken over the past seven days.
  
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• K9 handler and George Floyd protests: Friday’s best photos

  26-05-2023 13:40 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• RHS Chelsea flower show 2023 and its visitors – in pictures

  26-05-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Photographer Sarah Lee captured the gardens and the crowds as she visited the horticultural event of the yearContinue reading...
  
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• Kissinger at 100: Statesman or war criminal? His troubled legacy – in pictures

  26-05-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  First as US national security adviser, then as secretary of state, Henry Kissinger intervened around the world during the 1970s, shaping events in China, Africa and the Middle East, with consequences that reverberate today• How Kissinger’s ‘sordid’ diplomacy in Africa fuelled war in Angola and prolonged apartheid Continue reading...
  
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• Yemen: beauty on the edge of war – photo essay

  26-05-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The photographs of Mattia Velati tell a story of Yemen under the internationally recognised government and the different militias and tribes that control the southern part of the country in the civil war against Houthi forces that has ravaged the country since the end of 2014Almost 15 years ago, I was based in Damascus, Syria, as a freelance photographer and was lucky to get to know Yemen before the civil war that started at the end of 2014. I went there a few times, freely, from north to south,
  
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• The South Sudanese families stranded while trying to return home

  26-05-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Civil war in neighbouring Sudan has forced thousands to return to their troubled country – but even having crossed the border, their problems are not overThirty-three-year-old Garpam Ruotken, his elderly, blind father and several other relatives have been waiting for almost a month to board one of the roofless, seatless boats departing from the river port in the town of Renk, on the White Nile.They are among hundreds of families who have been camping for days in the blazing sun in north-ea
  
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• Stylish new-build UK homes for sale – in pictures

  26-05-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From an airy modern studio in Edinburgh to a Georgian-influenced village in Dorset Continue reading...
  
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• Africa's week in pictures: 19-25 May 2023

  26-05-2023 05:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week.
  
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• Surry Hills fire: blaze guts heritage-listed Sydney building – in pictures

  26-05-2023 03:41 via theguardian.com
  
  On Thursday, a fire ripped through a seven-storey building on Randle St in Sydney’s CBD, causing the former hat factory to collapse. More than 120 firefighters from 30 fire trucks battled the blaze which consumed the building as thousands of people watched on. NSW Fire and Rescue have said there are concerns more parts of the charred building could collapse without warningSydney fire: fears Surry Hills building could collapse after blaze engulfs former hat factory Continue reading...
  
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• Dad completes 1,000 days of toy car photos around the UK

  25-05-2023 23:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ross Burns started taking pictures of his son's toy cars in lockdown in various locations across the UK
  
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• Meet the ‘gummy squirrel’ and thousands of other newly discovered deep-sea species – in pictures

  25-05-2023 17:55 via theguardian.com
  
  A trove of biodiversity has been catalogued by scientists in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a vast area of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico, which has been targeted by deep-sea mining companies keen to exploit its mineral wealth Continue reading...
  
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• Kenneth Anger: A life in pictures

  25-05-2023 17:40 via theguardian.com
  
  A look back at the life of American underground experimental film-maker, actor and author, who has died aged 96 Continue reading...
  
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• King and Queen visit Northern Ireland

  25-05-2023 17:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  King Charles and Queen Camilla are on their first official visit outside England since the coronation.
  
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• Contemporary African photography prize 2023 – a shortlist selection

  25-05-2023 15:30 via theguardian.com
  
  A selection of the 25 shortlisted photographers for the Contemporary African photography prize introduce their work. The CAP prize is awarded annually to five photographers whose works were created in Africa, or which engage with the African diaspora. The five winners will be announced in Arles, France, on 7 July Continue reading...
  
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• Alpine wall art and drones in Morocco: Thursday’s best photos

  25-05-2023 14:12 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano spews ash and smoke – in pictures

  25-05-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Mexican authorities have raised alert levels following an increase in the activity of the Popocatépetl volcano and for a while airports halted flights. Popocatépetl (meaning ‘Smoking Hill’ in the native Aztec language Nahuatl) is one of the world’s most closely monitored volcanoes. It rises only about 72km southwest of Mexico City, home to about 9 million people, or around 22 million including the metropolitan area Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Gaze out at the expanse’: a road trip from Texas to LA – in pictures

  25-05-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From vast, rocky landscapes to train tracks in the wilderness, a solitary drive inspired the pictures in Jason Lee’s forthcoming monographContinue reading...
  
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• Italy floods aftermath – in pictures

  25-05-2023 01:16 via theguardian.com
  
  The clean-up begins after catastrophic flooding that has left tens of thousands of people homeless in north-east Italy. Rising waters swallowed houses and landslides isolated hamlets‘Roads have disappeared’: Italy begins cleanup after catastrophic floods Continue reading...
  
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• Tina Turner: A life in pictures

  24-05-2023 21:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A musician who defied the constraints of age, gender and race to become a rock legend.
  
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