At the eastern end of the island of Java lies the active volcano of Kawah Ijen. Here men work in perilous conditions to extract suffer from the bottom of the caldera. Ceramic pipes funnel the sulfur until it condenses and solidifies into pools that can be broken up. The miners carry these loads of solidified […]
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Location: Changthang Plateau, Ladakh, Kashmir – December 2019. At an altitude of more than 14,000ft, where winter temperatures can fall to -40 degrees, it is hard to believe anyone or anything can survive in this vast ice desert that is the Changthang Plateau. petapixel.com »
2020-02-07 20:37
It’s five o’clock in the morning, and a cold mist lies upon the small Kenyan town of Kitale. Only if you walk around the empty town at the break of dawn will you notice the part of life that society is hiding. petapixel.com »
2017-04-22 22:51
My name is Trevor Gavin and I’m a photographer based near San Francisco. I’d like to share a very personal story of my darkest time. It’s a part of my healing and a part of moving on. It’s the only way I know how to express my emotions. I am humbled and so thankful to […] petapixel.com »
2017-01-28 19:43
I have the best job in the world. Seriously. As a Navy public affairs officer, I get to take pictures of amphibious assault vehicles storming a beach, Marines landing in tiltrotor aircraft, and the unusual tableaus that make up life in the Navy. petapixel.com »
2016-10-17 21:56
Basketball was invented in 1890 in America. By 1900, it was already in the Philippines where the locals had embraced the sport with open arms. Over a century later, one photographer is on a quest to capture just how important this sport is to the Filipino people. petapixel.com »
2016-09-03 01:25