Photographing the favelas in Rio
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Brazil is cracking down on the drug gangs, prompting many a shootout in the poorer districts, known as favelas. The Guardian spent a day with a Rio photographer who risks his life almost daily to cover the battle
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A selection of the week's best sporting photography from around the world.
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Gabe:  Kiko has finished processing the first batch of photos he took at PAX this year. You can see them over at his Flickr site. Kiko spent the entire weekend on photo duty and he assures me this is just the first wave. He says he should have another batch ready to go on Tuesday.-Gabe out
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The latest trend in digital photography is ultra-high-resolution fixed-lens cameras. The digital-camera manufacturers are constantly trying to outdo one another, in much the same way that CPU
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil _ Jose Luiz Pinto's grandparents first came to Quilombo Sacopa more than 120 years ago as escaped slaves.  A hillside cave, then in virgin jungle but now in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, provided a good hiding place. They later built a house nearby.
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Products include two cameras and photo viewer.
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Behind the lens: A Times photographer's contemporaneous account from ground zero.
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The newest digital SLR camera might teach you a thing or two
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A collection of sites with first-person accounts and photos
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Reader Shanti Palepu sends us a photograph.
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Photographs from the book by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
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By MICHAEL ASTOR ELDORADO DO JUMA, Brazil - It's a gold rush in the Amazon jungle, driven by the Internet.
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Thousands of people join in with carnival celebrations in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
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Photo-sharing Web sites are getting better at handling pictures based on where they were taken. My top pick is Flickr, with SmugMug and Google's Picasa tied for second.
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A specialized camera regularly takes pictures to aid with memory.
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Elections in Brazil used to be a monumental challenge, with millions of paper ballots to count by hand, many of them delivered by canoe and horseback from remote Amazon villages. Fraud was widespread, and it often took a week or more to determine the winners.
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The Metropolitan Museumâs collection features some of the great 20th-century photographers who devoted themselves to capturing quiet, overlooked everyday phenomena.