Jeff Campagna

PHOTOGRAPHER: MATTIA BALSAMINI

A grand palazzo in Venice has been reborn as the new creative hub for the world-famous sculptor, whose blood-red installations and canvases have set the art world on fire.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CAROLINE TOMPKINS

It’s our most primitive and most evocative sense. Learn how scientists are busy plying folks with odors both glorious and ghastly to close in on the mysteries of olfaction.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANGEL FITOR

A photographer illuminates the myriad wondrous organisms that flourish in a mere droplet of seawater.

COMMUNICATION ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 64 (SERIES)

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 40 SELECTED (2 IMAGES)

PHOTOGRAPHER: CALEB STEIN

In the mountains of Carrara, Italy, where Michelangelo sourced gleaming white marble for his masterpieces, robot sculptors are being programmed to carry on the iconic region’s artistic legacy.

PHOTOGRAPHER: HANNAH WHITAKER

"National Treasure" spread featuring the guitar that Prince played in Purple Rain from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: EMILY GARTHWAITE

Archaeologists in Iraq battle to protect the ancient Assyrian capital against myriad threats.

PHOTOGRAPHER: MARK MAHANEY

Racer Danny Thompson returns to a Utah raceway to fulfill the adrenaline-fueled dream of his murdered father.

PHOTOGRAPHER: THOKO CHIKONDI

Mount Mulanje is a climber’s paradise–and a casualty of logging. Can conservationists revive its forests?

PHOTOGRAPHER - ERIN PATRICE O'BRIEN

This portrait shoot accompanied a profile of Lin-Manuel Miranda in the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards issue. Miranda was awarded the Ingenuity Award in the category of historical scholarship for his writing the music, lyrics and book for the hip-hop Broadway musical Hamilton. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: NEIL EVER OSBORNE

Long victimized by poaching and deforestation, Africa’s mountain gorillas are in the midst of a surprising rebound that is sparking new hopes for the beloved primate.

COMMUNICATION ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 62 (SERIES)

PHOTOGRAPHER: EMILY GARTHWAITE

In Iran, a photographer accompanies a nomadic family and their livestock on a seasonal, time-honored trek across the mountains to their winter camp.

*2021-2022 SATW Still Photography on Travel (Bronze)

PHOTOGRAPHER: CLAIRE ROSEN

”National Treasure” spread featuring the “Ole Bull” Stradivarius, made in 1687, from the National Museum of American History collections, photographed with flowers and props reminiscent of a Dutch still life from the period.

PHOTOGRAPHER: LOLA FLASH

Profiles of the women who fought to integrate the America’s schools as children in the 1950s and 1960s.

PHOTOGRAPHER: GULSHAN KHAN

In South Africa, the hunting of captive-bred lions has sparked a global outcry. But ending the practice is also fraught.

PHOTOGRAPHER: KELLY MARSHALL

”National Treasure” spread featuring Edmonia Lewis’ Death of Cleopatra sculpture from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

PHOTOGRAPHER: NEIL EVER OSBORNE

The community of Block Island leads the nation in getting all its power from offshore wind.

PHOTOGRAPHER: FERNANDO DECILLIS

In Native communities along the coast, a lively artistic movement draws on innovation and humor as well as tradition.

COMMUNICATION ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 62 (SERIES)

PHOTOGRAPHER: MITCH FEINBERG

"National Treasure" spread featuring the 1967 STP-Paxton Turbocar from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History 

PHOTOGRAPHER: ERIN TRIEB

Afghan interpreters risked their lives for the U.S. military. Now many would like to come to America but are stranded–and in danger.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

Neil Armstrong’s extravehicular visor worn during his first walk on the moon photographed for a feature on the backstory of the Apollo 11 mission.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ALEX KAY POTTER

Photojournalist Alex Kay Potter travels up the Euphrates River, examining Iraq in the wake of the war against ISIS. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: JOSHUA RASHAAD MCFADDEN

Portraits of surviving participants of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike. 

COMMUNICATION ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 59

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION (OPENER): THE VOORHES
PHOTOGRAPHER: BEN LOWY

Rollicking tale of how fishermen, chefs and divers in Florida are learning to deal with the presence of the invasive lionfish; they’re learning to eat it.

COMMUNICATION ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 59 (OPENER)

PHOTOGRAPHER: JASPER DOEST

This photo essay on the white storks of Europe examines how their environment, diet and migration patterns are being disrupted negatively by the presence of large landfills. 

SPD52 / PRINT MEDAL FINALIST

PHOTOGRAPHER - CADE MARTIN

"National Treasure" spread featuring C-3PO from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

COMMUNICATION ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 59

PHOTOGRAPHER: SAMANTHA REINDERS

Exploring the remote island of St. Helena, where Napoleon spent the final years of his exile.

PHOTOGRAPHER: JEFF SHENG

Photo essay on transgender soldiers serving in the American military.

PHOTOGRAPHER: GRANT HARDER

Series on expert luthier Reuben Forsland building a custom acoustic guitar out of a legendary mahogany tree salvaged years ago from a Belize forest.

PHOTOGRAPHER: BOB CROSLIN

Documentation of brain surgery from start to finish while the patient is awake, specifically, the procedure known as deep brain stimulation

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 31 / SELECTED

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANNIE MARIE MUSSELMAN

This photo essay is a long-term project documenting the wolves of Wolf Haven International, a wolf sanctuary in Tenino, Washington, that rescues and provides a lifetime home for displaced and captive-born animals.

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 32 / SELECTED

PHOTOGRAPHER: WAYNE MARTIN BELGER

Photographer and machinist Wayne Martin Belger’s “Us & Them” project, a series of portraits of individuals from groups including Zapatistas, Standing Rock protesters and Syrian refugees who are cast in the roles of opposition to those in positions of greater power. It was captured on a 4x5 pinhole camera he custom-built specifically for this project.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANDREA MODICA

"National Treasure" spread featuring AAGPBL pitcher/outfielder Betsy “Sockum” Jochum’s uniform and spikes from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

PHOTOGRAPHER: CHRISTIAN ALS

Brutally killed thousands of years ago, Europe's famed bog bodies are starting to reveal their secrets

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 34 / CHOSEN
COMMUNICATION ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 59

PHOTOGRAPHER: TIMOTHY IVY

Jimmy Holmes is the last in a line of music legends. At his Mississippi juke joint, he goes all out to keep a singular American art form alive.

PHOTOGRAPHER: HENRIK KNUDSEN

A groundbreaking survey of the landscape surrounding Stonehenge has turned up tantalizing new clues to what really went on there

PHOTOGRAPHERS: CELESTE SLOMAN (STUDIO PORTRAITS) & LEXEY SWALL

Drawing on long-lost folk melodies, gospel, opera and bluegrass, the electrifying singer and banjo player Rhiannon Giddens gives fresh voice to the many influences that have shaped some of America’s earliest music.

PHOTOGRAPHER: JESSICA PETTWAY

"National Treasure" spread featuring journalist Ethel Payne’s wide-brimmed hat from Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

"National Treasure" spread featuring the Tucker 48 from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

Smithsonian explores the Great Bear Rainforest in search of one of the rarest bears on earth, the white Kermode bear, or spirit bear. The piece explores the science behind the bears' genetic mutation, as well as the animals' connection with their habitat and the indigenous people of the area. 

PHOTOGRAPHERS: ANTONE DOLEZAL & LARA SHIPLEY

A notorious quack peddled cures at an Arkansas hotel in the 1930s. Nowadays the con game is all for show.

PHOTOGRAPHER: TOBIAS HUTZLER

"Artifact" spread featuring the Horten Ho 229 V3 prototype from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center.

SPD56 PRINT MEDAL FINALIST - SECTION/SINGLE ISSUE / PHOTOGRAPHY

PHOTOGRAPHER: BRYAN SCHUTMAAT

Guadalupe Peak in west Texas was once a much moister place, as the fossil-filled rock there shows.

SPD51 / MERIT WINNER, SINGLE/SPREAD

PHOTOGRAPHER: EVGENY MAKAROV

How the paving of a highway in Brazil threatens the Amazon rainforest.

PHOTOGRAPHER: DANNY CLINCH

Portraits of the participants and competitors helping to keep the blues alive at the 32nd annual International Blues Challenge in Memphis. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: FRANCESCO LASTRUCCI

For hundreds of years, rations in the southern Italian city of Naples have been cooking up a luscious solution to one of the world’s most tempting problems: What is the ultimate fast food?

PHOTOGRAPHER: DAVIDE MONTELEONE

Tracking Vladimir Lenin from his exile in Switzerland to his arrival in Russia 100 years ago. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: NEIL EVER OSBORNE

On Hudson Bay’s frigid shores, scientists track polar bears to better understand the impacts of climate change on their survival.

PHOTOGRAPHER: NADAV KANDER

Portrait to accompany the profile of self-described "Poet Laureate" of Twitter, "Brian Bilston," who relishes his anonymity. 

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 33 / SELECTED

PHOTOGRAPHER: TIMOTHY ARCHIBALD

Innovative multi-media artist Doug Aitken photographed at his Venice Beach home for the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards

PHOTOGRAPHER: CHRIS CRISMAN

Brothers Eric and Ryan Berley recently bought and restored Shane's Confectionary, the oldest continuously operated candy shop in America and a Philadelphia landmark. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: TROI ANDERSON

Photographer Troi Anderson documents vodou rituals held during the annual pilgrimage of St. John deep within the caves outside of Saint-Michel de l’Attalaye in Haiti. 

COMMUNICATION ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 59

PHOTOGRAPHER: BHARAT SIKKA

Photo essay on the former ashram of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, now overgrown and decorated with murals and artwork. Located in Rishikesh, India, the Beatles traveled there in 1968 to attend Advanced Transcendental Mediation training under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.  

PHOTOGRAPHER: JASON PIETRA

Nearly forgotten today, the pistol-packing explorer Wendell Phillips–reputed to be an inspiration for Indiana Jones–stirred controversy in his archaeological quest for traces of the Queen of Sheba.

PHOTOGRAPHER: NEIL EVER OSBORNE

Photographer Neil Ever Osborne documents the residents and the indigenous counselors of the K'tzim-a-deen Grizzly Sanctuary in British Columbia.

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 34 / CHOSEN

PHOTOGRAPHER: GLENNA GORDON

Photographer Glenna Gordon looks at the remnants of the society founded by by former slaves from the American South in Liberia.

PHOTOGRAPHER - DAN WINTERS

"National Treasure" spread featuring the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) from the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center

PHOTOGRAPHER: STEFEN CHOW; ILLUSTRATOR: JEFF LYSGAARD

Portrait for profile of leading contemporary Chinese artist and political activist, Ai Weiwei. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: JAMES QUANTZ JR.

Douglas Groat circled the world as one of the CIA's top burglars. He thought he understood the risks of his job–until he took on his own employer. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: MANDY BARKER

Millions of tons of artificial waste are swirling in our waters and washing up on our coasts worldwide. Beachcombing artist Mandy Barker's stunning images of plastic debris collected from 30 Hong Kong beaches show that we're in a sea of trouble.  

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 32 / SELECTED

PHOTOGRAPHER: DIANA MARKOSIAN

A German forester who has devoted his life to the study of the woods near his home is part of a new group of scientists who are revolutionizing our understanding of trees. 

SPD54 / MERIT WINNER, FEATURE STORY

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: CADE MARTIN

"National Treasure" spread featuring James Brown's organ from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

Selection from the “Voice” category of Smithsonian Magazine’s “101 Objects that Made America” issue, comprised of objects curated from the Smithsonian museum collections: Marian Anderson’s fur coat from her historic Easter concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, from the Anacostia Community Museum.

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 30 / SELECTED

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANNIE FLANAGAN

After 39 years of wrongful imprisonment for a murder he didn’t commit, Ricky Jackson served the longest sentence of any U.S. inmate found to be innocent.

PHOTOGRAPHER: KARINE AIGNER

Christopher Heckscher, ornithologist by day and firefly hunter by night, discovered the Photuris mysticalampas species of firefly in the Nanticoke Wildlife Area in Delaware.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

Selection from the “Voice” category of Smithsonian Magazine’s “101 Objects that Made America” issue, comprised of objects curated from the Smithsonian museum collections: this custom-made inscribed Selmer trumpet belonged to Louis Armstrong; from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

PHOTOGRAPHER: DAVID BURNETT

While deployed as an Army interrogator at Abu Ghraib, evangelical Christian Joshua Casteel rediscovered his faith.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CLAIRE ROSEN

"National Treasure" spread featuring the Martha, the last passenger pigeon, from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: NIGEL COX

"National Treasure" spread featuring a DC-3 from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum.  

PHOTOGRAPHER: MELISSA GROO

As giraffe populations plunge in the wild, scientists are scrambling to learn more about one of Africa’s most endearing and least-understood creatures.

PHOTOGRAPHER: RICHARD BARNES

"National Treasure" spread featuring the new T-Rex skeleton in the new Dino Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: MAX AGUILERA-HELLWEG

"National Treasure" spread featuring the Liotta-Cooley artificial heart from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: DAVID MAURICE SMITH

After 40 years in storage at an Australian university, the skeleton known as Mungo Man–one of the oldest Homo sapiens ever found outside Africa–is finally being returned to the Aboriginal people.

PHOTOGRAPHER: MAGGIE WEST

"National Treasure" spread featuring samples of Trinite from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

PHOTOGRAPHER: STEPHEN LEWIS

”National Treasure” spread featuring a wooden jigsaw puzzle that Ellis Island officials required immigrants to build as a crude intelligence test in the early 20th century from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANDREA MODICA

”National Treasure” spread featuring the 1939 Glenn Miller orchestra recording of “Moonlight Serenade” as the B side of a 78 rpm, from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: JODY HORTON

From jalapeño cheddar sausage to a smoked turkey banh mi sandwich, a tiny Houston eatery is breaking the rules of Lone Star barbecue to create some of the freshest-tasting grub on the horizon.

PHOTOGRAPHER: TOBIAS HUTLER

Portrait of Marc Edwards and LeeAnne Walters, the duo who uncovered the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CHRISTOPHER WILSON

Wading into a Civil War controversy, blast injury expert Rachel Lance offers her bold new explanation for the mysterious deaths of the crew aboard a Confederate submarine.

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 37 / SELECTED

PHOTOGRAPHER: MORGAN HEIM

Nearly a century after the last wolf was eradicated in California, a lone female arrived and established a pack. Not everyone is cheering.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ERIN PATRICE O’BRIEN

This portrait shoot accompanied a profile of John Leguizamo in the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards issue. Leguizamo was awarded the Ingenuity Award in the historical scholarship category for his one-man play, Latin History for Morons.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

Selection from the “Voice” category of Smithsonian Magazine’s “101 Objects that Made America” issue, comprised of objects curated from the Smithsonian museum collections: the microphone used by FDR during his fireside chats, from the National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: MYRTO PAPADOPOULOS

Alexander the Great’s unmatched military prowess and far-flung empire changed the world. But archaeologists in Greece are showing how his murdered father, Philip of Macedon, led the way.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANDREW KORNYLAK

After years of disappointing attempts to grow truffles on U.S. soil, an undaunted team of entrepreneurs in North Carolina is finally hitting pay dirt. Foodies and chefs are rejoicing.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CADE MARTIN

Selection from the “Voice” category of Smithsonian Magazine’s “101 Objects that Made America” issue, comprised of objects curated from the Smithsonian museum collections: a rare prehistoric wood-carved mask produced by the Spiro peoples of present-day Oklahoma from the National Museum of the American Indian.

PHOTOGRAPHER: DANIEL ROLIDER

Eking out a living on a remote island transformed by a volcano.

PHOTOGRAPHER: KIERAN DODDS

A whimsical British opera celebrates the bicycle, a steel town and a forgotten Olympic great.

PHOTOGRAPHER: JASON VARNEY

The legendary vinyl-record shop owner, Val Shively, a leading authority on a beloved music genre, sings to his own tune.

COMMUNICATION ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL 63 (SERIES)

PHOTOGRAPHER: GRETCHEN KAY STUART

A mountain range in the Pacific Northwest is a last bastion for the Cascade red fox.

PHOTOGAPHER: YASU

Roughly two million year years old, this simple stone tool is the oldest human-made object in the Smithsonian.

PHOTOGRAPHER: RORY DOYLE

An unabashed tribute to the Buffalo River, the wild Arkansas waterway that became the nation’s first national river 50 years ago.

2022-2023 SATW LOWELL THOMAS TRAVEL JOURNALISM COMPETITION, BRONZE MEDAL, STILL PHOTOGRAPHY ON TRAVEL

PHOTOGRAPHER: CRISTOPHER WILSON

In the remote Lofted Islands of Norway, youngsters are happy to embrace local tradition–and earn good money–performing a highly specialized task when the cod come in.

PHOTOGRAPHER: HANNAH WHITAKER

”National Treasure” spread featuring pioneering geneticist Barbara McClintock’s microscope, from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: SASHA ARUTYUNOVA

An abandoned garden in Delaware, built by a socialite on the site of a tragic industrial accident, bursts with new growth thanks to a few horticulturalists with an eye for history.

PHOTOGRAPHER: MINESH BACRANIA

An exclusive visit to Los Alamos, the top-secret U.S. laboratory where scientists developed the first nuclear weapon.

PHOTOGRAPHER: LAURA CHASE DE FORMIGNY

In Baltimore and beyond, meaderies like Charm City Meadery want to take the ancient beverage from Viking tales to a bar near you.

PHOTOGRAPHER: MORGAN HEIM

On Norway’s remote Svalbard archipelago, a group of intrepid scientists are keeping close tabs on the health of the world’s smallest reindeer as a warming Arctic changes the animal’s environment.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CHRIS GUNN

"National Treasure" spread featuring the blue whale skull from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CHELSEA KYLE

"National Treasure" spread featuring the Tiffany Dragonfly Lamp from the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum.

PHOTOGRAPHER: JO METSON SCOTT

Now in self-imposed exile in Portugal, artist Ai Weiwei is constructing a massive edifice that captures his earliest ambitions–and his love for the country he can’t return to yet can’t seem to forget.

PHOTOGRAPHER: MICHAEL AW

Welcome to diver Gary Cobb’s magical world of nudibranchs on the Sunshine Coast of Australia.