Photographs: Vivian Maier/Courtesy of Maloof Collection
Deforestation, fires, flooding and melting ice are among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last month
Photographs of Izikhothane youth in South Africa by Per-Anders Pettersson, from part of his wider project on South Africa. From Flash mob: South Africa’s township youth strut their stuff – in pictures
Photograph: Per-Anders Pettersson
Mariele Neudecker is fitting mysterious land and seascapes into the confines of the Regency Townhouse in Hove. Discover video of the south-west Indian Ocean’s deepest beds in the basement and a huge replica iceberg on the ground floor, its glassy bulk reflected in a tarnished mirror.
From Rena Effendi, Karin Ruggaber, Katie Paterson: the week’s art shows in pictures
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They are young. They are skilled. They are fed up with the dark narrative international media keep reporting on their region. Generation Elili, which means the generation of the image in Lingala language, is a photographer collective born a few years ago in Brazzaville with the desire to see Congolese taking part in the building of their history. From urban jungles to deep forests, from disused shipyards to decaying railways they tell new stories and prove that creative photography is possible anywhere.
Photograph: Baudouin Mouanda
In the aftermath of the Utøya island shooting in Norway in November 2011, Andrea Gjestvang began taking portraits of its young survivors. Her pictures won her the top prize at the Sony World Photography awards http://gu.com/p/3fc55
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A hardcore YBA who went out with Tracey Emin and hung out with Damien Hirst, Mat Collishaw has been producing haunting, provocative art for 25 years. We present a selection, from 1988’s Bullet Hole to his recent Infectious Flowers and Last Meal On Death Row series
Mat Collishaw, Catching Fairies 1, 1996, Bullet hole 1988, Narcissus, 1990.
Returning from the hunt…
Dozens of images made it through to the final round of the Nature Photographer of the Year 2013 competition, organised by the Society of German Nature Photographers (GDT). Here’s our gallery of some of the best.
Photograph: Michael Lohmann/Magische Momente/GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2013
Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s photograph reveals Berlin’s ongoing struggle for reunification. The snap, taken from the International Space Station, shows a divide between the whiter lights of former west Berlin and the yellower lights of the east.
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…up to 200,000 people angry with high costs and poor public services took to the streets. Protesters in Rio de Janeiro burned...
