Sarah Cole Kammerer Photography

09/05/2017

The transformation of these Poconos and Catskills resorts is like looking through some sort of dystopian View-Master.

07/26/2017

Jaqui Kenny roams the world searching for the perfect image without ever leaving home.

12/30/2016

's 2016 year in photos

For the eighth and final time, I am presenting my annual Year in Photographs.

10/21/2016

the power of realizing your voice...in images

06/22/2016

Patricia Willocq's photos communicate the profound beauty in difference.

06/16/2016

“Capturing experiences through photos, the team found, far from compromising people’s enjoyment of those experiences, actually seemed to amplify that enjoyment. A photographic mindset doesn’t seem to prevent people from “living in the moment,” as the old accusation goes; it might actually help them to do that living. What we find is you actually look at the world slightly differently, because you’re looking for things you want to capture, that you may want to hang onto,” Diehl explained of the study’s results. “That gets people more engaged in the experience, and they tend to enjoy it more.

A new study finds that documenting experiences, far from detracting from them, makes them even more enjoyable.

06/04/2016

Remarkable photos. I've loved following Pete's shots. Worth the click

Over two historic terms, official White House photographer Pete Souza has chronicled the most intimate, candid and comical moments of Barack Obama’s presidency

02/21/2016

That is a transformation so profound and complex that when another young black child, Jacob Philadelphia, visited the White House in 2009 and asked the then-new president if they have the same hair. Obama bent down and advised Jacob to find out. The answer -- yes -- said much more to Jacob, the millions of Americans who have seen the Souza photo of that moment since. It said, I am like you. You are like me. The most powerful elected office in the world is mine and is truly possible for all of us. Obama reportedly gave the photo a permanent and special home in the White House.

A must-see photo.

01/22/2016

In Sandberg’s portrait, she sits comfortably with one leg crossed and folded under the other in her chair. "It was interesting about Sheryl Sandberg because she is helping women come along, and she's not that different from me in that respect," said Leibovitz, fondly. "Her face has a whole new kind of resonance. … I don’t know too many CEOs of a company who come in and just sit like that in a chair."

Talking passions, Sheryl Sandberg, and Hillary Clinton upon the opening of Women: New Portraits in London.

01/19/2016

“She was an artist who shined,” they said. “She was fighting to give life to those forgotten by society, to homeless people, to migrants, deploying one weapon: photography.”

Ms. Alaoui, a French-Moroccan whose photographs chronicled the themes of migration and cultural identity, was injured during the assault in the capital, Ouagadougou.

01/18/2016

The camera is an instrument of transformation. It can make what it sees more beautiful, more gruesome, milder, darker, all the while insisting on the plain reality of its depiction. This is what Brecht meant in 1931 when he wrote, ‘‘The camera is just as capable of lying as the typewriter.’’ What then are we to do with this devious tool?

The apparent impartiality of photographs can conceal as much as it reveals — especially when the subject is violence or prejudice.

04/01/2015

We are proud to announce the winners of the 12th Annual Smithsonian.com Photo Contest. Thank you to all of our entrants and congratulations to the finalists and winners; among the more than 26,000 photos entered, the images below represent the favorites of the editors of Smithsonian.com and Smithson…