Tag: photos

Sometimes the best way to deal with mountains of data is to turn to the public for help. That's what Snapshot Serengeti did to classify millions of photos from savannah camera traps in Tanzania.

Everyone has a story to tell, and the Humans of South Africa website is a space for those stories to be told and pictures to be shared. The project started a year ago and has grown substantially since then. So far, more than 500 anecdotes have been shared.

A photographic exhibition, On the Frontline, at the Nelson Mandela Foundation's Centre of Memory reflects on the contribution – and the price they paid – from countries in Africa to helping the liberation struggle overcome apartheid.

Inner city images are unfamiliar to Joburg suburbanites, but outreach programme iwasshot in joburg, teaching young people photography skills, is bringing the inner city a little closer to home.

People from across South Africa, the continent of Africa and the world have left moving tributes to Nelson Mandela outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria.
• Nelson Mandela: A timeline

View photo galleries of recent events.

View and download high-resolution photos of the men and women who built Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium, the calabash-shaped arena that is one of the most celebrated legacies of the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
• Gallery: World Cup stadiums