Images from this year’s Songkran festival, marking the traditional Thai New Year
Images from some of this year’s varied Carnival parades and celebrations
Images from a Hindu festival in India, expected to attract more than 400 million visitors
Recent images of people dressed in frightening Krampus costumes, parading in front of crowds and chasing bystanders
Recent images that show some scary (and fun) pre-Halloween festivities around the world
Images of these amazing structures, and the effort involved in forming them
Images from some of the first runs this year in Pamplona, Spain
Images of some of the performers and concertgoers at this year’s Glastonbury music festival
Images from this year’s Ivan Kupala Night celebrations from Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, and Poland
Recent images from dragon-boat festivals in several Chinese cities
Images of racers running and tumbling down a very steep hill—pursuing a large wheel of cheese
Images of a friendly, traditional “war” between two churches, where members of each church launch rockets at the other.
Images of this year’s performances and concertgoers during the first weekend of Coachella 2024
Images of this year’s colorful Holi festivals from Nepal, India, Pakistan, Kenya, and the U.S.
Scenes from the festival, which features parades, fireworks, fiestas, and the burning of hundreds of wooden sculptures
Images of many of this year’s varied Carnival parades and celebrations
Photos from this year’s festival, as celebrants color their world, give prayers, and wish one another a happy Diwali
Early images from the 188th Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany
Pamplona’s annual Fiesta de San Fermín, including the famous running of the bulls, began in Spain last week.
Images of some of the performers and concertgoers at this year’s Glastonbury music festival
Images of the performances and concertgoers during the first weekend of Coachella 2023
Each year, hundreds of Catholic groups across Spain take part in many colorful parades.
Giant demonic effigies are carried through the streets of Bali, then burned in purification ceremonies.
After two years of limited celebrations due to COVID-19 restrictions, many Holi festivals are back in full swing.
A collection of winning and honored images from this year’s nature-photo competition
A collection of amazing recent images made with the Hubble Space Telescope
Mourners of Pope Francis gathered at the Vatican, scenes from the the second weekend of Coachella 2025, a humanoid-robot half-marathon in China, and much more
Images of the people, animals, and landscapes of the Earth’s arctic and subarctic regions, photographed by Olivier Morin