The photographic process of "painting" with light dates back to Picasso -- and maybe before. A trio of teachers spread across the globe are using it as a teaching technique.

Photographer Harry Benson was with The Beatles before they were famous, with Clinton before he was president, and capturing America before the civil rights movement. He has been photographing for 60 years and has just published a retrospective of his work.

Pollen makes a lot of us miserable. But these photos might make you forget that hatred. Swiss molecular biologist Martin Oeggerli used a scanning electron microscope to look at grains of pollen -- and the result is surprisingly beautiful.

Photographer Theodore Cross has elevated the sport of bird-watching: he's been traveling the world and photographing waterbirds for nearly 40 years. Now, at the age of 85, he's published his collection in a new book.

"Hershey Kiss iceberg" and "Slice-of-pie iceberg:" These are some of the affectionate names that NPR's Jason Orfanon has given to Antarctic icebergs. He even jumped into the frigid waters to swim among them.

If you want to see a work of art by Edgar Miller, you basically have to go to Chicago. And even then, you won't find it in a museum.

For 14 months, photographers Ross McDermott and Andrew Owen have been traveling the country to find and document America's most obscure festivals.

For lovers of modern art, there's a new mecca: North Adams, Mass. That's where 105 of Sol LeWitt's large-scale drawings now live -- and will be living for the next 25 years in a historically monumental exhibition.

NPR science producer Jason Orfanon sends another dispatch from Antarctica. View his photos of what look like "a bunch short, chubby guys late for a black-tie dinner."

W. Eugene Smith was a renowned photojournalist, but he was also an avid music lover. And in the 1950s and 60s he recorded hours of sound and took thousands of photographs in his Manhattan loft -- a hangout for the city's musicians and artists.