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<\/a>\t\t\t\u00a9 David Doubilet \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n
Taken with: Nikon D3<\/strong><\/p>\n David Doubilet is easily one of the most renowned underwater photographers working today and his split-level images taken around Antarctica are of particular note. This is one such shot showing a group of chinstrap and gentoo penguins vying for space on an iceberg. David shot this image with a Nikon D3, contained in a sturdy and waterproof Seacam underwater housing.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Steve McCurry \/ Magnum Photos<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n Taken with: Nikon F<\/strong><\/p>\n Not only is this one of Steve McCurry\u2019s most famous images, it easily stands as one of the most famous portraits ever captured. Nikon F3 in hand, McCurry was working on assignment for National Geographic where he was covering the plight of Aghanistan\u2019s refugees. It was there that he happened upon Sharbat Gula with her green eyes and red headscarf. 17 years later McCurry returned to shoot her again.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Robert H. Jackson<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n Taken with: Nikon S3<\/strong><\/p>\n It can often be the case that the world\u2019s most iconic images are a matter of absolute chance. That\u2019s certainly the case here with Dallas Times-Herald photographer Robert H. Jackson\u2019s image of the murder of JFK-assassin Lee Harvey Oswald by nightclub-owner Jack Ruby. Incredibly, Jackson had been present at the John F Kennedy assassination as well but, as the fatal shots were fired, Jackson was busy changing the film in his camera. In 1964, Jackson received the Pulitzer Prize for for this lucky shot that is safe in the annals of press photography history.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Bob Martin<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n Taken with: Nikon D4<\/strong><\/p>\n The mark of a really great photographer is one who can deal with subjects in which you have next to zero interest and still produce images that engage and make you want to stand up and applaud. Sports photographer Bob Martin is one such figure and this example taken at the 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona is a fine example of his stunning body of work.<\/p>\n \u2018When the TV people on the edge of the pool were interviewing competitors who had been knocked out of the synchronized swimming competition, they switched on their interview lights, which illuminated the water droplets in the air for this picture,\u2019 says Bob of this perfectly-timed photograph. \u2018Luckily the best teams went last so when the Russian team came on to win, it all came together.\u2019<\/p>\n \u00a9 Steve Shapiro<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n Taken with: Nikon S3<\/strong><\/p>\n The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s is an event that has been generously served by the media but very few projects have the intimacy and access afforded by Steve Schapiro\u2019s document of the Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights. The march became the epicentre of the Civil Rights movement and it\u2019s this absorbing portrait of Martin Luther King that stands as one of its strongest images. What Schapiro managed to capture in his work was not only the charismatic leadership of King but also the strength, unity and world-changing significance of a movement, the ramifications of which are felt today.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Jim Brandenburg<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n Taken with: Nikon F3<\/strong><\/p>\n Renowned wildlife photographer Jim Brandenburg is a figure whose influence is unparalleled in the field. His images of white wolves taken in Ellesmere Island within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago is the body of work that is perhaps his most well-known. Brandenburg, during a National Geographic assignment to document a dog-sled expedition, captured a strong number of notable images during his trip but this is the one that is most remembered. Brandenburg had built something of a relationship with this pack of wolves, to the point that one day a cub came up and started chewing on his shoelaces. This image of an aplha male on the search for food quickly drew attention. It was something that had never been seen before.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Nick Ut \/ Associated Press<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n Taken with: Nikon F<\/strong><\/p>\n On 8 June 1972, South Vietnamese soldiers dropped a napalm bomb on the Trang Bang district, an area that had recently been attacked and occupied by North Vietnamese forces. Civilians and South Vietnamese soldiers fled the scene to safety. However, a South Vietnamese air pilot, mistaking the group for enemy soldiers, turned the fire on them. Among the group was nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc who was so badly burned by the attack that she stripped off her clothes and ran screaming. Awaiting her was Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, who rushed her and several other children to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n The image at the time was considered controversial (though this seems more to do with the nudity) but AP considered the image entirely newsworthy. It was put out on the AP newswire and this image, from a little village in Vietnam, spread around the world to become a haunting reminder of the brutality and futility of all wars.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Joel Sartore \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n Taken with: Nikon D3<\/strong><\/p>\n The best photography is that which can hold your attention at an aesthetic level and in doing so slowly reveal its true intention \u2013 the message that lies beneath. In 2005, Sartore\u2019s wife, Kathy, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Sartore stayed home to look after their three children, meaning that his life as a National Geographic photographer was all but over. When Kathy recovered, Sartore locked into the idea of creating a project called Photo Ark that would talk about the fragility and ephemerality of life. It was then that he started creating portraits of some of the world\u2019s endangered and threatened species. As Joel says, \u2018Our hope is that people will look these creatures in the eyes and be inspired to care, while there is still time.\u2019 In making this project, Sartore was able to create one of the most affecting and important wildlife projects of recent memory.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Stuart Franklin \/ Magnum Photos<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n Taken with: Nikon FE2<\/strong><\/p>\n In May of 1989, there was a strange event unfolding in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. What at first appeared to be an almost carnivalesque atmosphere, soon revealed itself to be a stirring protest for freedom of speech, freedom of press and a rallying call against the corruption that many Chinese citizens saw as endemic of the government. Magnum photographer Stuart Franlkin, who was working on assignment for Time magazine was there to witness the unfolding of this historic event.<\/p>\n On the night of 4 June soldiers began moving in to clear the protesters and by the next morning they had been all but dispersed. On top of that, the military had occupied the lobby of Franklin\u2019s hotel and journalists were searched and stopped from working. However, it was from Franklin\u2019s balcony that he witnessed this extraordinary act of rebellion of a man stepping in front of a tank and blocking its path. The image was sent around the world and became an instant symbol of defiance.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Galen Rowell \/ Mountain Light \/ Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n Taken with: Nikon FE<\/strong><\/p>\n Galen Rowell was one of those blessed photographers who was able to visit a landscape and somehow draw out the extraordinary beauty and character of a location. His images are notable for their awesome and sublime aura. There\u2019s something almost spiritual about them. This is perhaps down to the fact that Rowell was often more than an outsider looking in \u2013 in many ways he was part of the landscape. Rowell had been a keen mountain climber since the age of ten, and this resulted in a hands-on physical, even emotional, engagement with the landscape.<\/p>\n As Tom Brokaw states in the introduction to Galen Rowell: A Retrospective, \u2018Galen Rowell was a man who went into the mountains, into the desert, to the edge of the sea, and to the last great wild places in the world to be absorbed by their grace and grandeur.\u2019 Rowell died in a plane crash in 2002 but he left behind once-in-a-lifetime images such as this one of a rainbow falling over the Potala Palace in Tibet in 1981.<\/p>\n
\nSteve McCurry | Afghan Girl (1984)<\/h2>\n\t\t
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\nRobert H. Jackson | The Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)<\/h2>\n\t\t
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\nBob Martin | World Swimming Championships (2013)<\/h2>\n\t\t
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\nSteve Schapiro | Martin Luther King (1965)<\/h2>\n\t\t
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\nJim Brandenburg | Ellesmere Island (1980)<\/h2>\n\t\t
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\nNick Ut | Napalm Girl<\/h2>\n\t\t
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\nJoel Sartore | Florida Panther<\/h2>\n\t\t
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\nStuart Franklin | Tank Man (1989)<\/h2>\n\t\t
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\nGalen Rowell | Rainbow over the Potala Palace, Tibet (1981)<\/h2>\n\t\t
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\nFrans Lanting | Dead Camel Thorn Trees (2011)<\/h2>\n\t\t