Over 100 years ago, cousins Susie Keef Smith and Lula Mae Graves embarked on numerous explorations of the desert between Mecca and Blythe, documenting what they encountered with photographs. Both ...

They say an image is worth a thousand words. And perhaps nowhere is this more true than in photojournalism, where complex and sometimes multiple ideas are conveyed in a single, carefully composed ...

For a few years now, New Atlas has picked some of its favorite pictures from the grueling, multi-thousand-mile desert race called the Dakar Rally. Dozens of professional photographers from around the ...

Photographing sand dunes can be a very productive photographic endeavor if you find a stretch of desert remote enough that not every inch of it is covered in footprints. In this article, I show you my ...

For the first time in 37 years, snow fell in Ain Sefra, Algeria in the Sahara Desert on Dec. 20, 2016. It turned the arid desert into a stunning landscape of contrasts. The community is known as the ...

News reports out of Algeria revealed that about 15 inches of snow covered the crests of tall, ruddy sand dunes and mountain peaks near the town of Aïn Séfra near the Moroccan border after a freak ...