Sunday Stills: An Altered Reality and New Horizons
Sunday Stills
Issue 43
Sunday, July 12, 2015
PROOF
Photo Unrealism: Seeing Birds in a New Wild
Photograph by Cheryl Medow
Behind Cheryl Medow’s sublime images—which immediately evoke the paintings of Martin J. Heade—is the ambitious reality of capturing birds in the wild.
NEWS
An Unusually Warm Seal Hunt Season
Photograph by Katie Orlinsky
North of the Arctic Circle in Kotzebue, Alaska, subsistence hunting has been a tradition for generations. But with rising temperatures, the longtime patterns of many animals are changing. Inupiat families from Barrow hunted walrus (above) when melted sea ice ended the seal hunt abnormally early.
PROOF
Best Buds
Photographs by Greg Krehel
The relationship between humans and plants is a perfect example of mutualism: We breathe the oxygen that plants give off while they use our expelled carbon dioxide in photosynthesis. But photographer and cactus-lover Greg Krehel reminds us that they give us moments of surprise and beauty too.
YOUR SHOT
Bringing Poverty Into Focus
Photograph by Marian Z.
As part of a meeting of international financial institutions in April 2013, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim wrote the number “2030” on a piece of paper, held it up, and said, “This is it. This is the global target to end poverty.” With our latest Your Shot hashtag challenge, we’ve partnered with the World Bank Group to encourage photographers to consider—and picture—poverty.
MAGAZINE
The First Mission to the Last (Dwarf) Planet
Photograph by NASA
After more than a decade of flight, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will finally pass Pluto on Tuesday. The journey is epic in the truest sense of the word, monumental in both purpose (it’s been described as “the capstone of the initial reconnaissance of the planets”) and distance (the spacecraft has traveled over three billion miles; compare that to the approximately 225,623-mile puddle jump to the moon). But what excites us most is simply the possibility of seeing Pluto—the celestial underdog, the oddball that defies definition, the small world that has lived in obscurity for so long.
NEWS
A Century in Cycling
Photograph by Presse Sports
In 1903, somewhere between 60 and 80 athletes set off from the Netherlands and—fueled by cigarettes and alcohol—rode the first Tour de France. As this year’s race moves into its ninth stage, we look back at the significance of bicycles over the decades and around the world.
