Sophia Phillips

26/10/2023

Drag performers prepare to compete in the 1995 Miss Fire Island pageant, an annual tradition since 1966. Fire Island lies off the shore of Long Island, and has a long history of LGBT-friendly tourism.

20/10/2023

Lightning flashes over a butte in Adobe Town, Wyoming. This photo appeared in a July 2005 story about the battle over natural gas drilling in the Rockies.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

16/10/2023

A woman plays a kayagum, a Korean musical instrument with 12 silk strings and matching bridges. The previously unpublished image highlights life in Kyoungju, South Korea, an ancient city that once served as the capital during the Silla dynasty.

13/10/2023

Salmon swim through the winding rivers of the 1.1 million-hectare Kronotsky Nature Reserve in Russia.

11/10/2023

While the indigenous Aymara population harvests and sells salt crusted on the surface of the Salar de Uyuni salt flat, the much more lucrative lithium is dissolved in brine found deep underground.