Jeff Campagna

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: KARABO MOOKI

Pathbreaking South African show jumper Enos Mafokate shares his love for the sport with young riders.

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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: MARK MAHANEY

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

PHOTOGRAPHER: CHRISTOPHER WILSON

Blast-injury expert Rachel Lance takes aim at the mystery of what sank the most famous–and lethal–submarine of the Civil War.

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PHOTOGRAPHER: LOLA FLASH

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

PHOTOGRAPHER: FERNANDO DECILLIS

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

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PHOTOGRAPHER: JEFF SHENG

Photo essay on transgender soldiers serving in the American military.

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: 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: JOSHUA RASHAAD MCFADDEN

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

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PHOTOGRAPHER: ERIN PATRICE O'BRIEN

Portrait of 12-year-old activist/author/feminist and creator of #100BlackGirlBooks, Marley Dias, for the annual Smithsonian Ingenuity Awards issue. 

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: TOBIAS HUTLER

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

PHOTOGRAPHER: ROBERT CLARK

Clayton Phipps, the “Dino Cowboy,” stands next to the section of the Nanotyrannus from his famous Dueling Dinosaurs fossil find. 

PHOTOGRAPHER: JASON VARNEY

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

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PHOTOGRAPHER: TIMOTHY ARCHIBALD

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

PHOTOGRAPHER: BOB CROSLIN

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

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PHOTOGRAPHER: NADAV KANDER

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

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PHOTOGRAPHER: STEFEN CHOW; ILLUSTRATOR: JEFF LYSGAARD

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

PHOTOGRAPHER: ERIC OGDEN

Conceptual portrait of Bryan Doerries, director and classics scholar who utilizes the power of ancient Greek tragedies to heal the wounds of modern trauma.  

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: DANNY CLINCH

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

PHOTOGRAPHER: TIMOTHY ARCHIBALD

Profile of materials scientist John Rogers, a Smithsonian Magazine Ingenuity Award-winner for his invention of dissolvable circuits.

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: 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: 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: DAVID BURNETT

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

PHOTOGRAPHER: DAN WINTERS

An airman’s son learns the truth about a heroic Allied mission to bomb a Nazi weapons factory in Czechoslovakia.

PHOTOGRAPHER: SANDRO

Sandro's series of fine art portraits document a few points on the wide spectrum of life in Papua New Guinea today, from indigenous traditional festivals, to average working women, to the Port Moresby underworld.

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.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANNIE TRITT

Jason Guberman-Pfeffer, the co-creator of Diarna, a digital venture that takes you back to painstakingly revived synagogues and destinations once lost to 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: KIERAN DODDS

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

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: TOMÁS KARMELO AMAYA

With a new state-of-the-art irrigation project, Arizona’s Pima Indians are transforming their land into what it once was: the granary of the Southwest.

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: LAURA STEVENS

In its African colonies, Belgium forced thousands of mixed-race children into orphanages. Decades later, they are still seeking justice.

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: SHAWN THEODORE

Ada Anagho Brown connects African Americans with the lands and cultures their forebears were forced to leave behind.

PHOTOGRAPHER: ERIN TRIEB

After years of precision construction and computer modeling, an engineer and archer in Oregon who wields a powerful footboy aims to set a world shooting record in the remote Nevada desert.

PHOTOGRAPHER: CHRISTOPHER WILSON

Wilson traveled through Tanzania creating these brightly-colored portraits of Hadza, Maasai and Barabaig tribespeople. 

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PHOTOGRAPHER: GUIDO GAZZILLI

Feature profile on forensic entomologist Paola Magni.

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: JAIDA GREY EAGLE

In 1855, a U.S. Army attack devastated a Lakota community in present-day Nebraska. How recovering the history of a little-known massacre is bringing healing to a generational tragedy.

PHOTOGRAPHER: MAGGIE STEBER

Shot in the photographic style of the period (1950s) on Tri-X film, this feature tells the story of Angie Nanni and the other women of Project Venona, the top-secret American counterespionage effort to decrypt messages sent by Soviet intelligence agencies.

PHOTOGRAPHER: SIMONA GHIZZONI

Follow one passionate polymath as she scours Renaissance paintings, stately palazzos and secluded monastery gardens in her fervid endeavor to solve the centuries-spanning case of Italy’s missing heritage fruit trees.