Picture Dept

For Brooklyn-based photographer Amy Touchette, the single act of noticing strangers in the most populous city in the U.S. has become a slight obsession—and the focal point for her latest exhibition, Street Dailies, on view at the Max Fish bar and gallery space in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. — view the entire gallery here

Getty photographer John Moore has been documenting the heartbreaking front lines of the Ebola epidemic for months - view the entire gallery here.

For eight years, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado captured the natural beauty of the world and traditional ways of life in what he calls his “love letter to the planet.” Click here to see more.

"I consider the Main Street project a reflection on what we've lost as a culture and nation. More than just a physical location, Main Street represents a state of mind, a civility and decency that has gone missing in the United States, replaced by a soulless existence of big commerce where we're pushed to buy ever more things but interact with others around us less intimately, if at all."—Jake Price  This piece was supported and produced by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit dedicated to journalism about inequality. Click here to see more photos.

Fashion week is all about showing off your style...and not just on the runway.  As the shows wind down and New York’s Fashion Week hangover starts to kick in, The Daily Beast spent the day filming the last of this season’s street style. From the refined attire at Lincoln Center to the avant-garde dress downtown, we spotted many of the big 2014 trends.

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Since 2000, photographer François Brunelle has been finding complete strangers—often continents apart—who look eerily similar and bringing them together as part of his I'm Not a Look-Alike series. See photos of some of his doppelgänger pairs.

Most of us consume our pizzas too quickly to truly appreciate their beauty. But one California-based filmmaker and photographer, Jonpaul Douglass, is taking pizza out of the box and into the wilderness of Los Angeles. Using his iPhone, Douglass has been capturing Ninja Turtle-esque pies since November 2013, when he was inspired by a graffiti tag of a pepperoni pizza, posting a photo of it to his Instagram with the caption, “#pizza the universal symbol of happiness.” Ever since, Jonpaul has been delighting us with his playful pizzagrams, shining his camera on pies “from the world’s finest pizza establishment, Little Caesars.” At only $5 a pop, he can afford to put pizza just about anywhere, and he’s been known to keep a pie or two in the trunk of his car in case he’s struck with inspiration to shoot. As the expert in everyone’s favorite comfort food, we had to ask: deep dish or thin crust? While we all enjoy a good deep dish, Douglass agrees, New York-style thin crust will always reign supreme. But as far as West Coast pizza goes, he reccomends Pizzanista! in downtown LA.

Is there a more glorious set of words than pitchers and catcher report? For more than a century, the Boys of Summer have flocked to sunny spots to get ready for the coming season. Here, a look at some of the game's greatest players—from Babe Ruth and Ted Williams to Roger Maris and Hank Aaron—tuning up in spring training in the weeks before Opening Day.

Need we even tell you how beautiful Australia is? These aerial photographs by David Grey, of Reuters, don't just confirm what we already know—they go above and beyond. The continent's natural wonders and dazzling, colorful landscapes are otherworldly. 

Between Nicolas Ghesquière’s debut collection for Louis Vuitton and Kendall Jenner strutting down the runway at Givenchy, Paris Fashion Week was just as crazy as ever. The collections were dominated by furry separates, oversized outerwear, and a plethora of leather goods that highlighted the craftsmanship and design strength that makes Paris the fashion capital of the world. The Daily Beast’s veteran photographer, Kevin Tachman, was there to capture all of the magic behind the scenes, as well as on the runway. From the fringed hats at Lanvin to the vibrant patterns at Kenzo, see Tachman’s highlights from Paris Fashion Week.

This is the year we caught our first glimpse of the royal baby, spied on Putin in the deep sea, watched Hillary get grilled on the Hill, and so much more. Relive the year in pictures.

Click here to see additional images. All images taken from Afghanistan: A Distant War, by Robert Nickelsberg (Prestel)

Here, a look at some of the incredible photographs that have amazed readers for over a century.

One of New York City’s five boroughs, the Bronx is only now beginning to escape the cliches of urban blight that defined it from the 60s through the 80s: arson, drug addiction, and social neglect. But the borough has always been a launching pad for immigrant working families, who since the 30s have had their own beach (the only one in the Bronx), Orchard Beach, created by New York’s master builder and social planner, Robert Moses. Photographer Wayne Lawrence acknowledges the beach’s reputation as one of the worst in the city ('Horseshit Beach’ is one of its more printable nicknames), but insists that the scarred landscape is nonetheless ‘a treasured respite from the sweltering confines of the concrete jungle’ for Bronx residents. ‘I began shooting portraits of Orchard Beach’s summertime regulars in 2005 shortly after moving to New York,’ he writes by way of introducing the people pictured in his book. He realized, he writes, ‘that the stigma attached to this oasis was largely unjustified—I felt compelled to engage with this community of working class families and colorful characters. The photographs in Orchard Beach: The Bronx Riviera’ celebrate the pride and dignity of the beach’s visitors, working-class people.’

 A small refugee camp in Akkar, Lebanon. Northern Lebanon houses hundreds of small refugee encampments. They are usually built in the woods, away from the public view due to growing anti-Syrian sentiments in Lebanon. These camps get no official help from the Lebanese government or the U.N. Residents usually have to pay rent to the landowners, and scrounge for food and heating in a country where it is nearly impossible for them to find work.