It’s easy to feel trapped in the unending cycle of news coverage devoted to US politics. But photography is a useful reminder that the world is a much bigger place. So in celebration of #WorldPhotographyDay, here are some of our favorite photo stories 1/
Every weekend in countries around the world, men and women don elaborate costumes, adopt assumed identities, and meet up to enact fantastical scenes set in alternate realities. Photographer Boris Leist has captured it here. #WorldPhotographyDaywired.trib.al/C908Kl8 2/
As a child, Rachael Talibart spent her summers on her father’s sailboat, both frightened and fascinated by the sea. Now she’s a professional photographer, and is exploring that tension through her photo series, 'Sirens'. #WorldPhotographyDaywired.trib.al/T61R6GX 3/
Vladimir Antaki has photographed over 250 small shopkeepers from around the world, including this portrait of Jainul Abedin at his bodega in a New York City subway station. #WorldPhotographyDay wired.trib.al/Qu8AcvC 4/
Photojournalist Park Jongwoo was granted rare access to the two-mile-wide swath of land between North and South Korea—an area called the Korean Demilitarized Zone. This is what he saw. #WorldPhotographyDaywired.trib.al/pPRaOdz 5/
The Svalbard Satellite Station sits inside the Arctic Circle just 745 miles from the North Pole. That means the sun doesn’t set in summer or rise in winter. Photographer Reuben Wu captured its beauty. #WorldPhotographyDay wired.trib.al/xVJ1INz 6/
In 2016, the California City Correctional Facility launched a pilot program that paired inmates, many of them convicted of violent offenses, with rescue dogs. Known as Pawsitive Change, it proved wildly successful
📸Shayan Asgharnia #WorldPhotographyDaywired.trib.al/aNITkuc 7/
The first step to taking a halfway decent photograph is making sure you're holding the camera right-side-up—that is, unless you’re photographer Arnau Rovira Vidal. #WorldPhotographyDaywired.trib.al/vpH0bki 8/
Robin Friend rappelled five stories down to capture this scene at the abandoned Gaewern Slate Quarry in Ceredigion, Wales. #WorldPhotographyDay wired.trib.al/9t2fgwp 9/
The district of Kowloon, Hong Kong, is a crowded place, and apartments can be amazingly small. So residents often escape to the tops of buildings to walk their dogs, hang laundry, or just take a catnap.
📸 Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze. #WorldPhotographyDaywired.trib.al/GiIRwaU 10/
Dmitry Markov’s photographs depict a Russia you won't see sightseeing in Moscow or St. Petersburg. In his gritty images, all taken with an iPhone, Markov documents ordinary life in small towns. #WorldPhotographyDaywired.trib.al/GJJ2VIm 11/
You can find all of our photo galleries showcasing incredibly talented photographers here. wired.trib.al/4nrIH5d
Bellingcat is the world’s biggest citizen-run intelligence agency, investigating everything from the 2014 shoot-down of MH17 to the various plots to kill Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. The person behind it all? Eliot Higgins. wired.com/story/how-to-l…
Bellingcat’s trajectory tells a scathing story about the nature of truth in the 21st century. Hard facts have been devalued. Online, everyone can present, and believe in, their own narratives, even if they’re mere tissues of lies. wired.com/story/how-to-l…
The year ahead may be the biggest of @bellingcat's life. In addition to tracking conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, its analysts will also be flooded with falsified artifacts from elections in the US, the UK, India, and dozens of other countries. wired.com/story/how-to-l…
Even before Sam Bankman-Fried, Faruk Fatih Özer had built a crypto empire. Now, the 27-year-old is facing a prison sentence of 11,196 years.
Did he almost get away with the biggest heist in Turkey’s history, or was it a misunderstanding? WIRED deep dive: wired.trib.al/wMvxpYp
Following decades of political turmoil in Turkey, at 23, Özer founded a crypto exchange called Thodex by investing just 40,000 lira ($11,100 US). He advertised his company as a way to prevent economic volatility, using a playbook from Silicon Valley. wired.com/story/faruk-oz…
In a few years, thousands of people bought in. Thodex expanded, reaching the upper echelons of society and government. By March 2021, Turkey became one of the top five nations for crypto use and Özer’s company was booming. wired.com/story/faruk-oz…
🧵 For 13 years, Del Harvey ran Twitter’s trust and safety team–if there was an issue with content people would say “DM Del.” Now, Harvey pulls back the curtain on Twitter’s decisions to mute, ban and block posts in the pre-Elon era 1/
But Del Harvey isn’t even her real name, although that’s what everyone knows her as. In 2003, Harvey worked for a nonprofit called Perverted Justice that investigated online predators. That led to Harvey working in TV with the NBC series “To Catch a Predator.” 2/10
Five years later, when a friend reached out and suggested Harvey take a job at a fledgling tech company, it seemed like a walk in the park compared to catching pedophiles. 3/10
🧵The Far North is thawing, unleashing clouds of planet-heating gas. Scientists rely on an arsenal of tech to understand permafrost environments better and sniff out just how nasty the problem really is. wired.trib.al/TwLiZ8G
As Arctic temperatures rise thawing permafrost releases methane, a gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide at warming the planet. Those clouds of methane raise global temperatures, which thaws more permafrost, which releases more methane. It’s a problem. 2/7
To reckon with how big of a problem we’re facing a group of self-described “methane detectives” use various instruments to determine how much organic matter exists within permafrost sites which will give them some idea of how much methane that site will release as it warms. 3/7
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