Photography

The rise of the Scot tub: why saunas are hot property in Scotland

Saunas at Scotland’s scenic spots are becoming the country’s hottest property and giving wild swimmers respite from the frigid North Sea

The face of race relations in 1950s America

A ‘man of substance’ emerges in a Gordon Parks image inspired by Ralph Ellison’s debut novel

The grid: weird and whimsical buildings

From houses built into cliffs to a fish-shaped office – the world’s strangest structures

Cloned dogs Ken and Henry

Lounging on a vet’s table in Louisiana, the dogs whose resemblence to each other is too close for comfort

The big picture: Adrienne Salinger’s teenage bedrooms

Thirty years ago, the US photographer let us peek inside the inner sanctums of 200 teenagers

The roots of Blondie

Martyn Goddard’s photographs capture the New York new wave band on the cusp of fame in 1978

Sally Mann: my quest to take the perfect photograph

In an extract from her new memoir, the celebrated photographer learns the hard way when to push through – and when to give up

At home with a supermodel

Corinne Day’s candid photo of the supermodel revels in the ordinary – and shocked the glossy world of fashion

The grid: David Katzenstein’s fuzz-toned travel photos

The American photographer’s unconventional images capture the fleeting moments of life on the move

The big picture: Tim Flach’s angry bird

The stare of this avian punk is enough to make your hair stand on end

The big picture: Anders Petersen’s red-light Rose

The Swedish photographer’s portrait captures the human side of Hamburg’s seedier environs

Howzat! Now India is calling all the shots

No other country’s national sport can match Indian cricket’s reach from rich to poor and scrubland to super-stadium

The grid: Rong Bao’s otherworldly sculptures

The Chinese artist’s otherworldly inflatable sculptures provide close encounters of the surrealist kind

The new faces of protest

Misan Harriman’s street portraits debunk the idea that today’s youth are less politically active than previous generations

The market trader making an early start

Setting out his stall for French photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont: the face of child labour in 1970s Istanbul

The grid: Denis Darzacq’s suspended subjects

The French photographer’s images of bodies in flight and on the move capture the wonder of human agility

The big picture: Vivian Maier’s backseat daisies

The late-blooming photographer’s floral snapshot offers a tantalising glimpse of her humour and warmth

William Notman and the invention of Canada

The pioneering Scot documented the wildernesses of the young nation through the embryonic medium of photography. But it was in the studio that his true genius came to life