Selina Cheng

Instagram has given itself a big present for its sixth birthday: a brand new, three-story office.

Between 1892 and 1954, thousands of immigrants to the United States passed through the Ellis Island inspection station south of Manhattan, in view of the Statue of Liberty. Each had their legal documents and health examined and a photo taken to record their entry. Many of their images were also dutifully recorded by an amateur photographer and chief registry clerk named Augustus Francis Sherman, who worked at the station until 1925.

We traverse over roads everyday, but seldom see the beauty of such enormous geometry drawn across the earth’s surface.

In Hong Kong, one of the densest cities in the world, millennials aren’t marrying or having children because they can’t afford their own apartments (link in Chinese). Even finding a few hours of privacy can be a struggle, but as a perfectly timed—yet accidental—photo shows, at least one urban couple has found their own little green haven.

Last week, GQ Style Magazine thought it would be cool to run a fashion feature that played on some very worn-out gender stereotypes, with intrepid men scaling rocks, and their “cute” female friends doing little more than, well, looking cute in bikini tops. Outdoor Research, a brand for hiking and climbing clothing and accessories, brilliantly responded with its own pitch-perfect parody series.

John Thackwray, a French and South African commercial filmmaker and photographer, has traveled the globe since 2010, and photographed over 1,200 bedrooms of young people born in the 1980s and 1990s.

Typhoon Megi, which has wrecked havoc in Taiwan in the past two days, killing four people and injuring more than 600, has drudged up an unlikely hero on social media: a woman photographed eating a pork bun while battling the winds and rain.

Countless works of science fiction have imagined what living on other planets or even galaxies might be like, but SpaceX founder Elon Musk is planning for the real thing.

You can’t blame everything on smartphones. Even more than 100 years ago, people worried that wireless technology would make us anti-social, as one cartoon from the archives of the UK’s Punch Magazine shows.

Ronny Sen (@ronnysen) has been photographing the lives of those who toil on the gigantic coal mine in Jharia, India for the past four years. The Indian Instagrammer and two other photographers recently won $10,000 each from Getty Images Instagram Grant, which supports photographers using Instagram to tell under-reported stories from around the world.

Malicious mischief and “badger” are some of the charges against the women below, whose mugshots were taken at New York police precincts more than 100 years ago. But who would have guessed they were mugshots at all, with subjects sporting fancy flowery hats, fur coats and high heels?

A local journalist has powerfully captured the deep tension and mistrust in Charlotte, North Carolina, fueling the past two days of protests. Violent unrest has gripped the southern banking capital since civilian Keith Lamont Scott was shot dead by a law enforcement officer in the city on Sept. 20—just days after the death of another black man, Terence Crutcher, at the hands of police in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Halloween is still weeks away but some Uber drivers are already painting their faces to scare unwitting passengers in China.

Donald Trump Jr.’s dehumanizing comparison of Syrian refugees to a bowl of hypothetically fatal Skittles has already garnered widespread criticism on the internet and a pitch-perfect reaction from the company that makes the candy. But perhaps the most delicious response yet is from the man whose photograph was featured in the tweet that caused all the uproar.

Star trails, aurorae and the Milky Way are subjects common in astronomy photography (also known as astrophotography). Some photographers, however, go a step further to create rare images of deep space objects, comets, and eclipses.

After retiring from the White House, George W. Bush has been rediscovering himself through the art of painting. The former president reached a new milestone in his second career, as his publisher announced Sept. 15 that he will release a book of portraits of military members and veterans that he has come to know after leaving office, titled PORTRAITS OF COURAGE: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors. 

Climate change has created a new niche in photography. The Royal Photographic Society and Royal Meteorological Society in the UK announced the very first Weather Photographer of the Year awards on Sept. 10, and released dramatic images of rare weather phenomena.

Today is Mid-Autumn Festival in East Asia, the 15th day of the eighth month on the Chinese Lunar Calendar. It is the day in the year when you can observe the roundest, fullest moon, and also when many in Hong Kong are confronted with a nightmarish reality—too many mooncakes.

Just in case Edward Snowden and Julian Assange might be out and about in US military bases or buildings, the US Defense Security Service created posters of the two enemies of the state so military staff could watch out for these “infamous spies.”

These stunning fjords carved into the southeastern coast of Greenland are dotted with snow—and decorated with piles of auburn oil barrels that have been laying there ever since the US Army abandoned a military base in the area in 1947.

The first time I saw New York’s World Trade Center, the towers were already in flames. I was nine years old and watching live TV from home in Hong Kong on Sept. 11, 2001. My parents and I had just come back from roller skating in the park. “The explosions rocked even the other side of the earth, that’s why I fell onto the ground so many times just now and scraped my knees,” I remember saying aloud, while my parents’ eyes fixated on the TV screen.

The Rio Paralympics kicked off last night (Sept. 7) with an opening ceremony at the Maracana Stadium.

Updated on Sept. 8 at 9:42am, EST.

Two Russian astronauts and one American returned to Earth this morning, Sept. 7, with a spectacular landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan.