Big Picture

A turbulent 2025 unfolded in striking contrasts – from apocalyptic climate disasters and surging global protests to the ever-present threat of war

The latest edition of the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait prize exhibition features subjects looking for a connection

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the most terrifying film ever made. So why did I watch it when I was 11, and why does it still have a hold on me?

It was the size of the Empire State Building, could move at motorway speed and was a symbol of American power

After years of scary AI movies, the tech is now portrayed as heroic – just as the industry’s humans come into its sights

Thirty years after the Srebrenica massacre, the country remains suspended between beauty and grief

From Helsinki to Buenos Aires, one man’s obsession with the art and architecture of our underground railways

Rock Against Racism’s joyous free concerts beat back the far right in 1970s Britain. That defiant blend of politics and music remains an inspiration – but its playbook may be obsolete

Everyone knows the famous image of the photographer in Hitler’s bath. But her lesser-known work is equally compelling

A new book collects the best of the world’s toilets – because even in an age of division, everyone needs somewhere to sit down

Forty years of news photos from the Reuters agency capture a world on fire – and makes a compelling case for the future of photojournalism

Mysterious, graceful and defiant, Cardinale transcended the male gaze and wrote her own legend

Just an hour across the water is a city with a completely different history and culture. But how much longer can it last?

El Salvador has become an absolutist police state. Part prison camp, part Bitcoin Beach, it’s the perfect place for Trump to send all the people he doesn’t want in America

A giant of 20th-century design had fallen into obscurity – but then it turned out he was still alive

Seventy years after his fatal crash, a pilgrimage to the place where an actor died and a legend was born

Tall and glamorous, Demulder did not seem meant for war zones. And then she made them her life’s work

When teacher Paz Errázuriz lost her job in Pinochet’s coup, she picked up a camera – and found a new way to resist

Social housing in the UK has a reputation for drabness. Other countries have done it far better – it’s time to learn from the ones who got it right

Seventy-five years ago, western troops went into Korea and the 20th century’s forgotten war began. The brutality and suffering cost five million lives – and achieved almost nothing

Hundreds of thousands of children face famine, betrayed by our leaders with their silence

A collection of images curated by the director tells the story of protest and resistance in Britain. But who wins and who loses is only part of the story

The photographer’s images of man’s ongoing mission to tame and commercialise the wild are a spectacle

Sometimes controversial, but never less than beautiful, the late Salgado leaves behind his images, and a legacy of conservation

The cemetery, opened by Napoleon, was unpopular at first. But then the VIPs came – followed by the ghosts

The elemental works of the Japanese ukiyo-e artist are celebrated in a new book and exhibition at the British Museum

Evidence and eyewitness testimony shows how Russia has maimed some Ukrainian PoWs. But other soldiers and civilians have simply disappeared from sight

Half a century ago, a humiliated America scrambled out of a losing war. But parallels with Ukraine show little has changed

The photographer’s images command attention – whether capturing the fiery passion of an activist rallying a crowd or the powerful, expressive gaze of a lone protester

An exhibition of artworks telling the terrifying story of MAGA and Trump’s second coming has made it on to the streets of London in poster form

Communities whose lives have been shaped and scarred by mining are now shaken by the prospects of a green transition

Under communism, Polish artists were given freedom to produce posters advertising Hollywood films in a way their makers never dreamed of