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Around The Horn
23 October 2025
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Guatánamo Bay prisoners, Comedy Wildlife, Wildlife POY, David Banks, Carlos Folgoso Sueiro and GOATs.
- Portraits of Guatánamo Bay prisoners show A Curious Collaboration Between Prisoners and the Military at Guantánamo (gift link), writes Carol Rosenberg. "In these photos, men who have been held as prisoners for more than two decades are voluntarily posing for American soldiers. Some are accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks. Others have never been charged with crimes and could be released. The prisoners send the pictures to their families through a longstanding collaboration with the U.S. military and the International Committee of the Red Cross."
- Matt Fidler presents a selection of finalists for Nikon's Comedy Wildlife Awards.
- Grace Ebert has a few of the 100 winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition from a record-breaking 60,636 submissions. "The 61st annual contest, helmed by Natural History Museum, London, features a diverse array of habitats, from a brown hyena skulking through an abandoned Namibian diamond mine to an orb weaver spider illuminated by the kaleidoscopic glow of headlights," she writes.
- Suzanne Sease features Trembling Earth, the personal project of David Banks. "In this photographic essay, I've injected fantastical visual elements into my documentary photographs, using in-camera techniques rather than post-production effects, to portray both the environmental and the spiritual significance of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge," Banks writes.
- In Beyond the Lake, Magali Duzant surveys the images of Carlos Folgoso Sueiro that reveal a modern-day epic of struggle, survival and connection in his native Galicia. "Rather than bleak documents of the hardships of life in this embattled region, his photographs are imbued with a painterly, allegorical glow," Duzant writes.
- In The GOAT, Mike Johnston analyses our obsession with "the greatest" this or that. "I don't like the idea of the GOAT. I like the idea of a pantheon of all-time greats," he writes.
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