John Fabiano has travelled the globe photographing dogs with jobs – from Italian truffle sniffers and Greenlandic sled dogs to Perla the hotel receptionist in Cologne
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© Photograph: John Fabiano
© Photograph: John Fabiano
© Photograph: John Fabiano
A look at the ballroom scene across Maré, Lapa, Gamboa and the city centre. The photographer Juliana Bizzo has documented a movement born from Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ communities in the US that has more recently evolved in Rio, growing from the city’s first ball in 2016
My first encounter with Rio de Janeiro’s ballroom scene was in 2023, during Noite das Estrelas, an artistic occupation that moved through the streets of Maré. From the top of a sound truck, the performer and drag queen Preta Queen B Rull, of the Kiki House of Mamba Negra, sang as people followed her through the neighbourhood. Before we had even reached our destination, the procession had changed the rhythm of the street.
Preta Queen B Rull performs from a sound truck during Noite das Estrelas.
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© Photograph: Juliana Bizzo
© Photograph: Juliana Bizzo
© Photograph: Juliana Bizzo
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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© Composite: Luo Yunfei/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images
© Composite: Luo Yunfei/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images
© Composite: Luo Yunfei/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images
Stavroula Adameitis, AKA Frida Las Vegas, is an Adelaide-based artist and designer known for her camp, pop art aesthetic. A typical work might feature palm trees, poodles, Greek pillars or bin chickens (Australian white ibises), sometimes all at once. Does it veer into kitsch? ‘I hope so,’ she says. ‘Nostalgia, colour and fun can be very energising, and the feeling we get from these objects in popular culture binds us together.’
The term kitsch comes from the German verkitschen, meaning ‘to cheapen’. In the 19th century it was deployed by elites to look down on the supposedly trashy vulgarity of art for the masses. ‘The idea still carries negative connotations,’ says Adameitis. In her new book, she invites us to stop sneering and start relishing Australia’s unparalleled genius for kitsch: ‘Good kitsch laughs with you not at you. It brings people along for the ride.’
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© Photograph: Eamon Donnelly
© Photograph: Eamon Donnelly
© Photograph: Eamon Donnelly
Country music fans use the Long Road festival in Leicestershire to mark the passing of Dolly Parton
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© Photograph: Orlando Gili/The Guardian
© Photograph: Orlando Gili/The Guardian
© Photograph: Orlando Gili/The Guardian
A family day in a Florida back yard was the setting for a summertime memory it would be impossible to recreate
Trace Meek is abundantly proud of his Florida back yard. For the last 10 years, he and his wife, Lauren, have worked diligently on it. “It’s our happy place,” he says. “We live in Belleair Bluffs, and I’ve watched my son and daughter grow up playing in the dirt under our giant oak trees, swinging on the tree swing, riding their bikes and scooters on the circular path, and swimming in our pool. It’s big, with a really deep end and three water fountains that shoot over the top. We like to have a last jump into the pool before bed and, best of all, there are no iPads or TVs.”
The family had friends visiting for 4 July celebrations when Meek took this photo on his phone. There were six adults, six children and two dogs present. Harvey, a braque français, is pictured here on Lauren’s lap.
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© Photograph: Trace Meek
© Photograph: Trace Meek
© Photograph: Trace Meek
As a war correspondent, I worked with photographers who said the camera was a buffer between them and reality. It is much the same now as we snap and scroll
I was sitting on a rooftop in Athens at sunset looking up at Filopappou hill. Athens in August is burning hot. Not so much hotter than London or Paris any more, but the sort of hot that makes it foolish to step out into sunlight before 6pm. Emerging from the air conditioning at dusk, I saw a dense line of silhouettes on the ridge above me. Almost every one of these shadows had its arm raised, holding a cameraphone towards the sunset.
Of all the pretty hills in the Greek capital, Filopappou arguably has the best view. The Acropolis stands directly to its north. To its south, where I sat, the city sprawls out towards the sea and a dark horizon of islands – Aegina, Salamina, Agistri.
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© Photograph: Antonio Parrinello/The Guardian
© Photograph: Antonio Parrinello/The Guardian
© Photograph: Antonio Parrinello/The Guardian
The Nepal-Tibet flood disaster, Russian strikes in Kyiv, Israeli settlers in the West Bank and tributes to Dolly Parton – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
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© Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
© Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
© Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
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© Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
© Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
© Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
© Robert Mapplethorpe
As photojournalist sentenced to 15 years, rights groups warn law would turn civic engagement into security crime
Iran has taken the first step towards criminalising contact with foreign media, in a move human rights groups have said attempts to “sever the entire Iranian society from the rest of the world”.
For journalists, researchers and even ordinary citizens, the proposed law being discussed by Iranian lawmakers this month could make speaking to international audiences and groups a potential criminal act and restrict coverage of events such as January’s mass anti-regime protests.
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© Photograph: Yalda Moaiery
© Photograph: Yalda Moaiery
© Photograph: Yalda Moaiery
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