In Pictures

From wigs to weave

Tales of a drag queen's hair

  • 30 November 2017

Fruit jewellery, sugar dolls

A selection of this week's best African photos

  • 1 December 2017
  • From the section Africa

When dubstep left the underground

Photographing the artists and clubs of London

Fire and smoke

A volcanologist explains Bali volcano photos

  • 27 November 2017
  • From the section Asia

Bands, denim and leather

Heavy metal fans who customise clothes in the name of music

Life on London's first Aids ward

Gideon Mendel's emotional photos of patients nearing death

Features

I love animals but I kill them too

  • 21 November 2017

The women who refuse to stay quiet

  • 17 November 2017

The skin I'm in

  • 3 November 2017

Making the most of the small hours

  • 25 October 2017

Swapper - a unique photo archive

  • 3 October 2017

My life on a plate

  • 14 September 2017

Our Experts

Picture power: The drowning man

Photographer Alessio Paduano records the moment a man is plucked from the Mediterranean Sea as he attempts to reach Europe from Libya.

13 November 2017
Phil Coomes Picture editor

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