People pictures fall into two categories: portraits and candid ... A great deal of people photography is understanding human nature and being aware of how people usually react in given situations.

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 ...

so we shall only need one portrait.” The National Geographic Society did not set out to test Kierkegaard’s thesis, at least not right away. Its mission was exploration, and the gray pages of ...

Halpern and others, Nature Communications; UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas (2016) This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The map above is ...

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 ...

the project is now called the National Geographic Photo Ark. No matter its size, each animal is treated with the same amount of affection and respect. The results are portraits that are not just ...