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Grace Jones, 2025

Models from the spring/summer 1966 haute couture collection, published in Harper’s Bazaar, March 1966

Rangamati, Bangladesh

A floating market operates on Kaptai Lake

Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures), 1972

‘By the end of the 1960s,’ wrote Jonathan Jones in his Guardian tribute to Hockney, ‘an eerie stillness dominated his paintings as he became more openly the observer, the looker-on. The loneliness of looking is the theme of what may be his greatest painting, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures). It’s certainly his most expensive, selling in 2018 for $90.3m. In this huge 1972 canvas, an almost mystically radiant work, a young man in a pink jacket stands by an open air swimming pool watching a swimmer whose pale flesh flickers under translucent turquoise water. To give the kind of gossipy detail Hockney came to loathe, the man by the pool is Peter Schlesinger and the painting captures the end of their affair, a trauma that gives it painful authority’

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Tourists on top of Jebel Fihrayn. Also known as the Edge of the World, its sheer vertical cliff face drops roughly 300 metres into an ancient ocean bed

Mexico City, Mexico

People gather underneath the Angel of Independence statue to take part in a World Cup parade. Mexico is co-hosting the tournament with the US and Canada

New York City, 1973

Eloïse Labarbe-Lafon, American Album, 2023-2025

Labarbe-Lafon is a French photographer. Her images, like American Album, are moments frozen on black-and-white silver film, which she then colors the prints with oil paint, using brushes or her fingers

Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, Unreleased #4, 2003

Crewdson’s images are large-scale, cinematic, psychologically intense productions, in which he directs a production and lighting crew to create them. ‘Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures,’ he said

Rania Matar, Rianna (With Mirror), Amshit, Lebanon, 2024

Matar was born in Lebanon and moved to the US in 1984. Her work centers on the personal and collective experiences of female adolescence and womanhood

‘Twin Towers’ AKA Ronald & Dino just got haircuts at Astor Place barbershop NYC, 1990

Oxford, England

People punt on the River Cherwell

Zhangjiajie, China

A sea of clouds at Zhangjiajie national forest park after rainfall 

Yellowstone, United States

Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone national park, Wyoming, is the largest hot spring in the US at more than 300ft wide at its widest point and over 120ft deep. The colours outside the pool’s blue centre are created by ‘thermophiles’ – heat-loving microscopic organisms that flourish in many of Yellowstone’s hot springs. The 2.2m acre park thrives as part of one of Earth’s last nearly intact large temperate ecosystems, famously preserving over 10,000 hydrothermal features and around 500 geysers – roughly half of the world’s total

Seoul, South Korea

A man attaches name cards with wishes of Buddhist followers to lotus lanterns displayed at the Jogye Temple after a service to celebrate Buddha’s birthday in Seoul 

Paris, France

The inflatable artwork La Caverne du Pont Neuf (The Pont Neuf Cave), conceived by the French street artist JR as a tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude, covers the Pont Neuf