featured galleries
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Petals, paintings and prog-hating punks: Pink Floyd's careerA new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum, London, chronicles the music, design and staging of Pink Floyd’s career – from the first flourish of creativity in the 60s through to the present day -
May the 4th be with you: Star Wars DayIt might not be an official public holiday, but to Star Wars fans, 4 May is the annual celebration of everything Jedi-related. On this date, chosen for its similarity to the motto ‘May the force be with you’, fans around the globe dress up to mark the special day
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Diane Arbus: portraits in New York City parksA new exhibition at Lévy Gorvy in New York focuses on early portraits by Diane Arbus shot in Central and Washington Square parks -
The dangerous, delirious underworld of urban dirt bikingPhotographer Spencer Murphy headed to the abandoned airstrips and industrial estates where Britain’s dirt bikers meet up to burn rubber -
Music, politics and cricket: the rise of black British identityUsing archive news photography, Eddie Chambers’s new book examines how African-Caribbean immigrants to the UK fought racism to carve out a new kind of selfhood
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Prix Pictet 2016 shortlist turns the lens on spaceFrom Hong Kong’s tiny subdivided flats to the migrant crisis the Prix Pictet shortlist explores the theme of space from all perspectives
highlights of the day
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Best photos of the day: Buddha's birthday and a comic campaignsA selection of photo highlights from around the world
the picture essay
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'It's like Airbnb for refugees': UK hosts and their guests – in picturesAlicia Canter has spent several months meeting people in need of shelter and photographing them with their host families across the UK
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Great Australian photographs: Migrants by David Moore – an audio essayIn the latest chapter in our audiovisual series on celebrated Australian photographs, we look at the famous photograph by David Moore documenting the arrival of migrants at Sydney’s Circular Quay
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Great Australian photographs: The Kiss by Rennie Ellis – an audio essayIn the second part in our audio-visual series on celebrated Australian photographs, we look at the work of Rennie Ellis including such eye-opening shots as the The Kiss
from the agencies
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Seville comes to life with Feria de Abril celebrations – in picturesThe Andalusian capital’s April festival started as a cattle fair in 1847 and now features bullfighting and opulent parades, attracting the city’s high society
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Crab invasion in the Bay of Pigs in Cuba – in picturesEvery year, after mating season, millions of red, yellow and black landcrabs invade Playa Girón, on the eastern side of the Bay of Pigs or Bahía de Cochinos. The crabs migrate from the surrounding forests to the bay to spawn in the sea
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An oasis in a war zone: Iraqi sulphur spa reopens – in picturesBefore Islamic State captured the town of Hamam al-Alil, south of Mosul, in 2014, visitors from all over Iraq flocked to its historic spa. Now that the area has been liberated, the customers have returned
Biking across India on a Bullet – in pictures