Celebrity Life
‘Don’t Give Up Hope.’ A Mother On The Pain of Losing Her Son To Opioids and Learning To Find Her Voice
Four years ago, the stories of a young man named Billy with his mother Kristina and stepfather John Barboza appeared in The Opioid Diaries, a special issue of TIME calling attention to the dire rise in accidental overdoses caused by the opioid epidemic. Last year more than 87,000 Americans died of drug overdoses over the…
A Year in a School Bus: Amid COVID-19, A Family Finds Freedom Traveling the American West
Paula wakes up in her bus around 4:30 a.m. most days. She can usually still see the stars. She works for a few hours, often on freelance projects using her training as a biologist, and makes breakfast when her 12-year-old son Max gets up around 7:00. (TIME has agreed to grant Paula and Max pseudonyms…
Deaths Among America’s Homeless Are Soaring in the Pandemic. A Photographer Captures A Community In Crisis
When West Virginia declared a state of emergency to arrest the coronavirus, the social network that aids the homeless froze along with everything else. Charities that offered daily meals and warming stations shut down. Volunteers, many elderly, were too afraid to work in the soup kitchens they usually ran. There was suddenly no place to…
A Photographer’s Unflinching Gaze on The War on Terror’s Consequences
Come September, the U.S. war on terror will be 20 years old. Many Americans enjoy the luxury of being detached from that fact, but for the hundreds of thousands of people who served in combat, or were maimed in combat, or lost a loved one in combat, the war is inescapable. These are the subjects…
A Photographer’s Diary of 12 Turbulent Months in Trump’s America
It would be too much to say that if you’ve seen one Trump rally you’ve seen them all. But “they all follow a predictable pattern,” says Peter van Agtmael, who has been attending them since 2016. As a news photographer, “You have a lot of nice conversations, and maybe one or two people aren’t very…
Portraits of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Favorite Collars and the Stories Behind Them
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American icon. The late Justice, who died on September 18, 2020 at the age of 87, was only the second woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, and a trailblazing feminist who enshrined equal protections for women into the law. Over her 27 years on the nation’s highest court,…
Anxiety, Protest and Celebrations: TIME Photographers Reflect On a Long Election Week
It felt like the country held its breath over four long days, anxiously awaiting one of the presidential candidates’ electoral votes to reach 270. On the morning of Nov. 7, after the Associated Press finally called Pennsylvania for former Vice President Joe Biden, pushing his total vote count to 284, a divided America poured onto…
“I Don’t See Them Accepting The Results.” Scenes from Election Protests in Maricopa County Arizona
Tensions are running high outside of the Maricopa County Elections office in Phoenix, Ariz., where more than a hundred protestors have demonstrated for the last three nights to argue about the electoral process after former Vice President Joe Biden became the front-runner in the traditionally red state. New York-based photographer Sinna Nasseri has spent most…
How to Look Amazing in Your Holiday/Travel Photos
Many of the people reading this might have been described as ‘not photogenic’. For these unfortunate people, looking great in person might be easy – but looking great in photos, not so much. But don’t worry: posing for photographs is a skill you can pick up with practice, provided that you’re able to spot those […]
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RICH GRAFF, THE NEXT LEADING MAN
I actually received my bachelors degree in Literature & Writing from a SUNY school in upstate New York. I received my law degree from NYU. For me...
FACES OF THE WORLD GLOBAL PHOTO EXHIBIT
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A CHANCE IN LIFE’S ANNUAL NY GALA
A Chance In Life's President and Executive Director Mr. Gabriele Delmonaco joined Gala Chair Countess Francesca Braschi, and Gala Dinner...