'I'm a whore - I fall in love with my subjects': David Bailey confesses all as he unveils new exhibition at National Portrait Gallery

David Bailey exhibition

Real life karate kids! Photographer creates bizarre images of babies doing one-handed press-ups, muscle poses and kung-fu kicks

Muscle babies

The beauty that lies beneath: Maths teacher stuns the photography world with incredible pictures of life beneath 12mile Alaskan glacier

It may look like another planet, but these spectacular pictures were taken beneath the Mendenhall Glacier in the remote Alaskan wildernesse

Secret paintings hidden in books: Magical and intricate 19th century art that appears by fanning the pages

This picture on the fore-edge of the 1837 book Winter by Robert Mudie, shows how the paintings reveal themselves

At first glance, the pages of these old books are gilt-painted, but look more closely and you will see beautiful hidden paintings.

Is this the naughtiest art show Britain's ever seen? The 500-year-old Japanese erotica turning heads at the British Museum

A lesbian embrace by Sugimira Jihei - At the bristish museum

A shocking new exhibition at the British Museum is set to reveal what an extremely sexually liberated nation the Japanese once were.

150 years before Instagram, Julia Margaret Cameron set the trend for selfies with her Victorian era Celebrity Photographs

Pictures of Victorian celebrities by a British photographer have gone on display in New York for the first time. Julia Margaret Cameron was 48 when began taking pictures.

Pictures of Victorian celebrities by a British photographer have gone on display in New York for the first time. Julia Margaret Cameron was 48 when began taking pictures.

Artist says he'll dedicate his life to painting a portrait of EVERY resident of his home city - good job only 1,800 people live there!

Grahame Hurd-wood

Grahame Hurd-Wood, 55, has already spent 14 years producing pictures of people in St Davids in Wales - which is Britain's smallest city.

Eye don’t believe it! Photographer manages to catch the split-second moment he gets winked at by SIX animals

Squinting or winking? Photographer who snapped SIX animals winking at him finds it hard not to find meaning in their expressions

Wildlife photographer Paul Goldstein says it is 'obviously humanising nonsense', but after catching six animals winking at him it was hard not to think there was a message behind it.

From dusk to dawn: Photographer creates amazing cityscapes showing the transition from night to day

Cityscapes

Artist Fong Qi Wei was keen to invent a way to show how scenes change over time, without resorting to a video camera or time-lapse photography. So he captured multiple pictures of the same sites over the course of a day, before splicing them together into a single image taken over several hours.

Dew drops on a damselfly: Photographer captures super-sharp images of insects glistening in the morning sun

Glistening drops of dew

Polish photographer Adam Tomaszewski captured these remarkable pictures of damselflies, showing up-close the thousands of lenses that make up their eyes. Mr Tomaszewski took the photos of them at 4am to get the best effect.

Photographer creates out of this world portraits using images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble portraits

Artist Sergio Albiac has set out to prove we really are all stardust with an out-of-this world collection of portraits using images from the Hubble telescope. Albiac, a computer science engineer based in Barcelona, has written software that turns photos submitted by the public into portraits created from a palette of shots of stars and galaxies photographed by the Hubble telescope.

Life behind the veil: Stunning photographs seek to challenge Western misconceptions of what life is like for Middle Eastern women

middle east photography

The She Who Tells A Story exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, which opened on Tuesday, aims to challenge the traditional view that women from that part of the world are 'repressed and powerless'.

Inking of The Titanic: Photographer colours black and white pictures of world's most famous ship with extraordinary results

Majestic: New life has been breathed into The Titanic by photo editor Anton Logvynenko

Russian photo editor Anton Logvynenko has breathed new life into The Titanic story by giving colour to original black and white shots of the doomed liner.

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