MacNaughtan was best known for photographing Canadian celebrities and musicians

Considered one of the first female Indian photojournalists, Homai Vyarawalla passed away in Boroda, Gujarat, on January 15 at the age of 99.

Raymond was a freelance photographer taking pictures for the various newspapers including the Butler Eagle, the News Weekly, the Cranberry Journal and the Pittsburgh Press

the group was caught in a rocket explosion

She was the first woman to become a full member of the storied Magnum Photos cooperative — not quite a feminist, but someone who believed that women saw the world through a different lens. Petite but powerful, she will be remembered for her generous spirit and her compassionate eye.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.”—Eve Arnold

“Themes recur again and again in my work. I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women,” she wrote in her 1976 book, The Unretouched Woman.

Celebrated Magnum photographer who documented ‘the poor, the old and the underdog’, as well as the stars

Rogers joined The Times in 1940 and was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Watts riots in 1965. His work was often picked up by Time, Life and Sports Illustrated.

The documentary photographer Milton Rogovin (b. 1909) sometimes returned to the same people over and over for decades. He took these portraits of one family in Buffalo in 1973, 1984, 1992 and 2001. This interview, which has been edited, was conducted by Dave Isay for their 2003 book, “The Forgotten Ones.”

We lost great photographers this year. They photographed Presidents and popes, rock stars and rebels. They risked their lives, and some of them gave their lives, so that we can better understand our own, the place we inhabit, and more importantly, the areas of the world we would otherwise never see. —Nate Rawlings

Jose Gaytan was the consummate salesman. How good was he?

He could persuade jaded Brooklynites to see the beauty of the Gowanus Canal. When he wasn’t selling high-end photo gear in Manhattan, he and his dogs Lola and Rudy explored Brooklyn’s decrepit urban waterway and shot lyrical pictures full of color, clouds, light and even love

Atherton retired from The Washington Post in 1990 after a career that included two decades as a staffer with United Press International before he joined the Post in 1970. During his 40-year career he covered every U.S. President from Truman to Nixon and was a major influence on photographers and news photography in the nation’s capitol

Michael Sypniewski, an award-winning staff photographer at the Asbury Park Press, died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 47.

Bruce Kellman, who spent 42 years as a staff photographer for The News Tribune, died Monday. He was 66. Kellman shot photos of everything from soldiers shipping out to Vietnam, to the construction of the Tacoma Dome, to the Puyallup Tribe storming the Cushman Hospital building. He also shot the small moments of life that build a community’s visual history.

Renowned photojournalist Rashid Talukder, the first Bangladeshi to win prestigious Pioneer Photographer Award, has passed away at a hospital in the city. He was 72

Barry Feinstein, who covered Bob Dylan’s 1966 tour after the musician went electric, and also photographed the covers of iconic albums by Dylan, Janis Joplin, George Harrison and Eric Clapton, died today at his home in Woodstock, New York, the AP reports. He was 80.

His effect on people was profound.

Yet one of Tim’s most lasting legacies will be the changes he almost single-handedly wrought in the worlds of photojournalism and multimedia. This weekend, we’re opening an exhibit of his work at the Bronx Documentary Center, a gallery inspired by Tim’s vision and friendship

“It is a very sad day for journalism,” Santiago Lyon wrote to AP colleagues. “He will be deeply missed by all who ever had the pleasure of meeting him. Ed was a first-rate professional

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On Wednesday morning, photography became an orphan. Göksin Sipahioglu passed away at the American Hospital in Neuilly. He was an explorer, mentor, the ‘papa’ of photography, friend, and adviser to a number of impressive photogaphers, including Abbas, Barthélémy, Patrick Chauvel, Marc Charuel, Françoise Demulder, Catherine Leroy, Thomas Haley, Jean-François Leroy, Lasky, Reza, Manoucher, Yan Morvan, Alain Mingam, Alfred Yaghobzadeh, Alexandra Boulat, Olivier Jobard and Facelly, to name but a few.

Today we pay him homage. We are sharing work from his early years as a photographer along with tributes from his friends.