Can A.I. Keep a Parent Alive?
You can now make a virtual replica of a loved one. The question is what it can give you in return.
A Firsthand Account of the War in Iran
In an interactive story, a civilian in Tehran chronicles a country trapped between bombardment and repression — too terrorized to move, let alone start an uprising.
A Massacre in Mashhad
Under the cover of an internet blackout, Iranian security forces killed hundreds of demonstrators. Only now are details of the carnage starting to emerge.
In Gaza, Home Is Just a Memory
After the ceasefire, many Palestinians who were displaced during the war are still grieving the homes they can't return to—and which they often had to evacuate in minutes.
The Four Horsemen Team Rides Again
Video for Helen Rosner's restaurant review of I Cavallini, the new Italian spot from the Four Horsemen team in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
The New Yorker's Sam Wolson on Interactive Storytelling
The Interactives Visual Features Editor discusses the intersection of VR, interactive design, documentary work, and reporting.
A Mother and Her Trans Teen Decide to Leave the U.S.
After President Trump issued an executive order restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors, one family made the difficult choice to relocate to Mexico City.
How the Broadway Musical "Maybe Happy Ending" Creates Visual Magic
A behind-the-scenes look at the visual storytelling behind the acclaimed Broadway musical.
Times Square's Revolving Restaurant Comes Around Again
Can Danny Meyer make the View transcend its touristy gimmick?
How Lorna Simpson Broke the Frame
Simpson's wryly evasive photos, films, collages—and now paintings—peel back the layers of our looking.
Cleared by Fire
An illustrated interactive documentary that uses 3D reconstructions of witness testimony to investigate the killing of 24 civilians by U.S. Marines during the Iraq War.
The Haditha Massacre Photos That the Military Didn't Want the World to See
When U.S. Marines killed twenty-four people in an Iraqi town, they also recorded the aftermath of their actions. For years, the military tried to keep these photos from the public.
One Family's Perilous Escape from Gaza City
When Israel invaded Kamal Al-Mashharawi's neighborhood, he crowded into a basement with his extended family. "The world is closing in on us," he wrote on WhatsApp.
Christoph Niemann's "Create Your Own Cover with Till-E"
The artist arches an eyebrow at our robot overlords in the magazine's first AI-themed interactive cover, inviting readers to generate their own New Yorker covers.
Another Hospital in Gaza Is Bleeding
Doctors in southern Gaza are overwhelmed by the dead and the wounded—and by displaced Palestinians sleeping on the floor.
The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat
China has invested heavily in an armada of far-flung fishing vessels, in part to extend its global influence. This maritime expansion has come at grave human cost.
The Era-Defining Aesthetic of "In the Mood for Love"
Wong Kar Wai's 2000 masterwork has influenced filmmakers ranging from Barry Jenkins to Sofia Coppola—and innumerable teens on TikTok.
The Case for and Against Ed Sheeran
The pop singer's trial for copyright infringement of Marvin Gaye and Ed Townsend's "Let's Get It On" highlights how hard it is to draw the property lines of pop.
Masha Titova's "The Art of Music"
The magazine publishes its first synesthetic, collaborative, and interactive cover — a piece that merges sound, color, and motion in a single visual experience.
A Security Camera for the Planet
A new satellite, funded by a nonprofit, aims to pinpoint emissions of methane—a gas that plays a major role in global warming.
Visit Tunisia's classic 'Star Wars' locations in this exclusive 3D virtual tour
Three iconic Tatooine filming locations still standing in Tunisia — the Lars Homestead dome, Hotel Sidi Idriss in Matmata, and the Mos Espa marketplace — brought to life in an immersive 3D virtual tour for the 45th anniversary of A New Hope.
Reeducated
A new film takes viewers inside Xinjiang's secret detention camps for Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities.
"Reeducated offers a glimpse into a horrifying world obscured from public view. … It's a striking piece of 360 cinema that makes a clear argument for the unique affordances of immersive formats for telling stories."
— SXSW Virtual Cinema Jury, 2021
"To bring people in inaccessible physical and emotional spaces"
An in-depth interview on the making of Reeducated, a VR documentary that takes viewers inside Xinjiang's reeducation camps through the recollections of three former detainees.
Inside Xinjiang's Prison State
Survivors detail the scope of China's campaign of persecution against ethnic and religious minorities.
Xinjiang Portraits
Portraits commissioned by The New Yorker for Inside Xinjiang's Prison State.
After The Fallout
A 360-degree immersive documentary evoking life in Fukushima ten years after the 2011 nuclear disaster — shot in the exclusion zone with photogrammetry recreations of the Daiichi plant control room.
Portraits + Singles
A collection of portrait and single images from projects and publications worldwide.
Volum
An open-source multi-camera volumetric video system built to make field-friendly volumetric capture accessible to journalists and storytellers — freeing the technology from studio environments for the first time.
The Okavango Experience
A 4-part VR series following a team of conservationists on an expedition across the Okavango Delta in Botswana, one of the last surviving wetland wildernesses on the planet.
Protesting Coal Mining From a Treehouse
For years, activists have been protesting the expansion of coal mining in the Hambach Forest in Germany by living in treehouses.
Visit an Austrian Village, Replicated in China
Enter Hallstatt, Austria, a small town in the Alps, and its replica in southern China in 360 video.
A Bird's Eye View in Laikipia
Here are three ways to spy wildlife, large and small, in the Laikipia region of Kenya.
Selfie Lessons From a Chimp
While reporting at Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Kenya, a chimp stole Sam Wolson's camera. What resulted: an extended 360 selfie.
We Who Remain
An immersive experience that takes you into the heart of a forgotten conflict in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
Nuba
Behind the scenes making We Who Remain in the Nuba mountains of Sudan.
Okavango Delta
Behind the scenes on the Okavango Experience series for National Geographic.
Cobalt Mines in DRC
Inside the artisanal cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which supply the raw materials for the world's electronics.
Welcome to Hell, Michigan
John Colone, the unofficial mayor of Hell, Mich., has put Hell up for sale. He's run the roadside attraction for 18 years, exploiting nearly every joke imaginable.
36 Hours in Nairobi
From giraffe kisses to country music, spend some time with the delights of Kenya's capital.
The Urban Shepherds of Nairobi
Urbanization and drought have depleted pastureland around Kenya's capital, leaving cattle to graze along highways and in cemeteries of the city.
Tin Roofs
Mathare settlement, Nairobi — one of Kenya's largest informal slums, home to an estimated 400,000 people.
Tour du Rwanda
The Rwandan cycling team and international development — turning young men and women of humble origins into world-class athletes.
This Life I Lead
A long-form photo essay following Shanon Fulcher through the ups and downs of life in Oakland over three years.
Oakland Protest
BLM coverage for the San Francisco Chronicle — lyrical, confusing, ghostly images invoking the spirit of protest and the slow nature of social change.
In the Park with Sam Wolson
An interview about documentary photography, e-waste in Kenya, early influences, and the cross-section between beauty and impact — conducted walking around Lake Merritt in Oakland.
Diamond in the Rough
Exploring the meaning of a cliché.
E-Waste
Electronic waste in Kenya — the country's fastest-growing waste stream, hidden inside a system that profits from discarded technology.
How We Move
Transportation in Bogotá, São Paulo, and Nairobi — exploring how cities of the global south move more than half the world's population.
My Own Way
Rey
Reymond Mapakata travels from his cramped life at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg to his home village in Zimbabwe.
Burn
Burning Man — shot for Slate Magazine in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
