The Atlantic Photo

The Biggest Story in Photos. The Atlantic Photo is a news photography section of The Atlantic online, updated nearly every day.

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From A New Eruption of Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall Volcano, one of 16 photos. A close-up view of lava flowing from Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland on August 3, 2022. (Marco Di Marco / AP)

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From Photos of the Week: Knife Angel, Paris Henge, Flamingo Tagging, one of 35 photos. A new view of the Cartwheel Galaxy, seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The wheel-like structure of the galaxy is the result of a high-speed collision between a large spiral galaxy and a smaller galaxy not visible in this image. The Cartwheel Galaxy lies about 500 million light-years away from Earth. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

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From After the Floods: Recovery in Kentucky, one of 24 photos. Old photographs, among the archives being kept in a basement of the Settlement School that were damaged in flooding, hang from a clothes line to help them dry after being cleaned in Hindman, Kentucky, on August 1, 2022. (Amanda Rossman / USA Today Network / Reuters)

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From Photos of the Week: Nail House, Scorched Forest, Raging Bull, one of 35 photos. Marina White and her dog, Coco, share a kiss during warm up before a race in Bournemouth, England, on July 23, 2022. The U.K. Dog Surfing Championship is being held for its fourth year at Branksome Dene Chine Beach. (Finnbarr Webster / Getty)

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From Photos: Five Months of War in Ukraine, one of 30 photos. Ukrainian service members fire a shell from a M777 Howitzer at a front line, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, on July 21, 2022. (Gleb Garanich / Reuters)

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From Scenes From California’s Fast-Moving Oak Fire, one of 23 photos. Flames engulf a chair and table inside a burning home as the Oak Fire burns in Mariposa County, California, on July 23, 2022. (Noah Berger / AP)

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From Photos of the Week: Swan Upping, Worm Charming, Living Bridge, one of 35 photos. A train moves through shallow water near a salt-harvesting site in Burlinskoye salt lake in Russia's Altai Region, on July 20, 2022. (Alexey Malgavko / Reuters)

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From Photos: The U.K. Reaches Its Highest Temperature Ever, one of 25 photos. A police officer givers water to a British soldier wearing a traditional bearskin hat, on guard duty outside Buckingham Palace, during hot weather in London, England, on July 18, 2022. (Matt Dunham / AP)

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From Wildfires Rage Across Southwestern Europe, one of 28 photos. A fire burns in a forest in Louchats, southwestern France, on July 17, 2022. (Thibaud Moritz / AFP / Getty)

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From Photos of the Week: Elephant Rescue, Buck Moon, Love Parade, one of 35 photos. A resident tries to put out a fire with a tree branch as he watches the forest surrounding his home burn in Albergaria a Velha, Portugal, on July 13, 2022. Wildfires have swept across the central part of the country amid temperatures exceeding 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius). (Octavio Passos / Getty)

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From Selections From the Audubon Photography Awards Top 100, one of 28 photos. "Reddish Egret." In Fort De Soto Park in Tierra Verde, Florida, a reddish egret catches a fish at sunset. Kieran Barlow / 2022 Audubon Photography Awards)

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From First Images From the James Webb Space Telescope, one of 8 photos. A view of the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324, in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth. Called the Cosmic Cliffs, the region is actually the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, roughly 7,600 light-years away. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image. The high-energy radiation from these stars is sculpting the nebula’s wall by slowly eroding it away. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team)

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From Photos of the Week: Oil Wrestling, Flaming Bull, Gorgosaurus Sale, one of 35 photos. Breeder Mohammad Hasan Narejo displays the very long ears of his kid goat Simba in Karachi, Pakistan, on July 6, 2022. (Asif Hassan / AFP / Getty)

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From The 2022 Audubon Photography Awards, one of 8 photos. "Western Grebe." Amateur Winner. A Western Grebe’s red eyes stare into the camera, as two chicks ride on its back, each grabbing onto a silver fish in its beak. Photographed on the Calero Reservoir in San Jose, California. (Peter Shen / 2022 Audubon Photography Awards)

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From Photos of the Week: Lightning Rod, Crown Fountain, Lunar Transit, one of 35 photos. Lau Florit trains his horse for the Sant Joan Festivity in Ciutadella, Spain, on June 22, 2022. (Joan Mateu Parra / AP)

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From The Dust Devils of Mars, one of 20 photos. This image, made by the HiRise camera orbiting Mars aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), shows swirling patterns left on the Martian surface by passing dust devils. Like on Earth, the whirlwinds often expose materials just underneath the surface, which in this case, are darker than the overlaying dust. Image sent to Earth on April 1, 2012. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona)

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From Scenes From Glastonbury 2022, one of 28 photos. Festivalgoers enjoy the spectacle of the Arcadia DJ stage during day five of the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton, on June 26, 2022, in Glastonbury, England. (Leon Neal / Getty)