Best of Photojournalism

In Liberia, Ebola is called the "silent killer"

Soon after arriving in New York in the mid-1960s, Jean-Pierre Laffont discovered that — unlike anywhere else — his new neighbors respected him and his profession.

Yunghi Kim went to Somalia 20 years ago expecting to cover a famine. She found herself instead in a war zone.

More than three weeks have passed since Israel launched its current offensive against Gaza, after a series of cross-border kidnappings and killings.

It’s been a race of survival in this year's tour at the halfway point. Two of the race favorites; Christopher Froome, last year's winner, and former winner Alberto Contador have both crashed out.

Warning: Graphic images and details can be found in the photographs above and in the text below.  Late Thursday afternoon, a field of sunflowers in the village of Torez in eastern Ukraine was transformed into a scene of a tragedy when Malaysia...

Thursday will be the opening day of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The widely-viewed event will bring together 32 national football teams to compete in 64 matches in facilities in twelve cities across Brazil.

Clashes between Iraqi Security forces and hundreds of Sunni militants aligned with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, an offshoot of al Qaeda) resulted in the capture of Mosul and Tikrit by ISIL earlier today.

At around 1 am on a late-winter night in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, a small line of young men and women forms outside Sugar Mills nightclub. Attendees are searched by a team of bouncers before entering.

Twenty-five years ago today, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) violently cleared Beijing's Tiananmen Square of protesters, ending a six-week demonstration that had called for democracy and widespread political reform.

For this week’s issue of TIME, photographer Yuri Kozyrev and TIME Middle East Bureau Chief Aryn Baker traveled to Syria to document locals returning to the city of Homs, which lies in ruins.

After nearly 20 years of award-winning reporting around the world, Ami Vitale came to the brink of leaving photojournalism over a tweet. Through her experience corralling a misappropriated image gone viral, Ami reminds us that today's photographer must be business savvy, ethical and legally informed.

The Burning Man festival, with a theme of "Caravansary," wrapped up earlier this week 120 miles outside Reno, Nev., in the Black Rock Desert, its home since 1990.

A look at a selection of images depicting daily life around the world in the month of August.

Last month, as the UK held the first-ever global summit aimed at ending sexual violence in conflict zones, Pete Muller was asked to present his portraits of Congolese women who had been victims of such crimes and, in some cases, have spoken...

The conflict in the Mideast has intensified in the last month with turbulent fighting in Gaza strip. Over 800 Palestinians have been killed and over 5,000 injured, according to Palestinan health officials.

Photos from Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Spain.

In this week's edition, scenes from Brazil as the World Cup begins, Argentina's overflowing Iguazu Falls, a flaming crater in Turkmenistan, a regimental funeral in New Brunswick, Canada, a view of an X-class solar flare, and much more.

Cory Richards is now an athlete for North Face and a photographer for National Geographic, but he was once a homeless high school dropout as well.

For this edition of our look at daily life we share images from Japan, Pakistan, Haiti, United States, Mexico, Spain and other countries around the world.

Some dates are defining dates and everyone remembers where they have been on those date. One such date is 9/11. If I asked you where you were on that day you’d probably remember.

Over the past few years, drug-related violence in Mexico has driven local citizens to the breaking point.