Dance Centre Kenya, one of the leading performing arts schools in east Africa providing opportunities for talented young dancers from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, has staged The Nutcracker for its 10th-anniversary annual ballet production, at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi
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The Nip/Tuck and Downton Abbey star on losing her sister, growing up in a theatrical dynasty, and how she feels about ageing
Born in London in 1965, Joely Richardson is an actor and campaigner. The daughter of actor Vanessa Redgrave and director and producer Tony Richardson, she trained at Rada, and rose to prominence with roles in 101 Dalmatians, Nip/Tuck and The Tudors, as well as in theatre and on Broadway. More recently, she appeared in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, and Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. Richardson is working for Save the Children’s annual festive fundraiser, Christmas Jumper Day, and also backing the charity’s new Christmas campaign.
I remember this as a happy day, but my eyes tell a different story. They look a little mistrustful. In my arms is my brother Carlo – we have different fathers; his is Italian actor Franco Nero. That day was Carlo’s christening, and it was obvious from my hand position that I’m not used to standing like that. Someone’s gone: “Put your arms out! We’re taking a picture of you holding the baby!” The whole thing looks awkward.
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© Photograph: Pål Hansen
© Photograph: Pål Hansen
© Photograph: Pål Hansen
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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This spectacular image taken in Sakrisøy, Norway, triggered accusations that it was simply too good to be true
Yuan Li splits his time between two careers: in the winter, he works as a ski instructor; in summer, a photographer. When he took this image, Beijing-based Li was visiting Norway and Iceland with friends, on a trip focused on sightseeing and photographing the aurora borealis. He captured this picture while exploring Sakrisøy, a small island in Lofoten, Norway. In the foreground sits this distinctive yellow homestay; in the background, Olstinden mountain.
“It had snowed heavily all day,” Li recalls. “As I was setting up to capture this scene, the snow stopped and the sun came out, which made the perfect environment for taking photos.”
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© Photograph: Yuan Li/ 2025 Türkiye Mobile Photo Awards
© Photograph: Yuan Li/ 2025 Türkiye Mobile Photo Awards
© Photograph: Yuan Li/ 2025 Türkiye Mobile Photo Awards
Russian airstrikes on Kyiv, floods in Indonesia, the IDF in Gaza and the Nutcracker in Nairobi: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
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© Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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© Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images
Artists explore insomnia and snoozing, sculptors imagine alternative futures and we look back with a great British photographer – all in your weekly dispatch
To Improvise a Mountain
Painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye portrays fictional people in made-up settings. Where does she get her haunting ideas? Here she reveals her inspirations from Walter Sickert to Bas Jan Ader.
• MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, until 25 January
© Photograph: Marcus Leith/Courtesy the Artist, Corvi-Mora, London and Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York
© Photograph: Marcus Leith/Courtesy the Artist, Corvi-Mora, London and Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York
© Photograph: Marcus Leith/Courtesy the Artist, Corvi-Mora, London and Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
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© Photograph: Zoos Victoria/SWNS
© Photograph: Zoos Victoria/SWNS
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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In her complex works, the Polish artist manipulates images of male nudes to comment on masculine power-plays and female emancipation
To give people a sense of her evolution, the lauded Polish artist Zofia Kulik likes to compare two of her creative milestones. The first was the centrepiece of her earliest exhibition as a solo artist in 1989, where she debuted her groundbreaking, technically complex photomontages in which dizzying patterns are woven from repeating imagery. It’s a self-portrait where she peers uncertainly from a mandala made from tiny posturing male nudes, “pressed in by men” as Kulik puts it.
The second was made nearly a decade later in 1997, the year that that artistic leap into the unknown was given the ultimate public affirmation and she represented her country at the Venice Biennale. This time she’s an assertive queen, posed like Elizabeth I, resplendent with a ruff, wide-skirted and sleeved gown, embellished with decorative patterns of those naked men.
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© Photograph: © Zofia Kulik
© Photograph: © Zofia Kulik
© Photograph: © Zofia Kulik
Unfettered love for late photographer in France and elsewhere stands in contrast to occasional reservations in UK
The death of Martin Parr, the photographer whose work chronicled the rituals and customs of British life, was front-page news in France and his life and work were celebrated as far afield as the US and Japan.
If his native England had to shake off concerns about the role of class in Parr’s satirical gaze before it could fully embrace him, countries like France have long revered the Epsom-born artist “like a rock or a movie star”, said the curator Quentin Bajac.
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© Photograph: Dpa Picture Alliance/Alamy
© Photograph: Dpa Picture Alliance/Alamy
Photographer Janette Beckman and curator Julie Grahame have organized a one-time fundraiser for the ACLU that showcases images of musicians who have recorded protest songs or are known for their activism. Forty-three photographers have donated images of 50 artists, from John Lennon to Nina Simone to Bad Bunny, and 100% of the profits will go towards the ACLU and their efforts to protect equality, freedom and rights. In addition to the images there is a playlist of songs for the fundraiser.
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© Photograph: David Corio
© Photograph: David Corio
© Photograph: David Corio
‘I was told not to go to St Charles as it was too dangerous. I went and was struck by how free the kids are. They’re not afraid of the region’s rattlesnakes’
I visited the Appalachian mountains for the first time in my mid-20s, after deciding I needed to get away from my inner circle in Sweden to find my way into photography. I felt I had to be by myself, just responding to things happening around me and not thinking about my daily life.
America played a big part in my family history, and the Appalachians called to me in particular because at that time, around 2006, I’d been listening to a lot of bluegrass music. I wanted to get closer to people who lived in the place where it originated – music has always been a big inspiration for me. While driving in the mountains with no particular destination in mind, I met a social worker who told me: “Whatever you do, don’t go to St Charles.” She said something about it being too dangerous, which made me curious.
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© Photograph: Hannah Modigh
© Photograph: Hannah Modigh
© Photograph: Hannah Modigh
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
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© Composite: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images
Veteran set decorator Lauri Gaffin has spent a career dressing up films from indie classics to blockbusters. Her new photographic memoir takes us behind the scenes of this ever-changing job – and on the hunt for wolves’ penis bones
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© Photograph: Lauri Gaffin
© Photograph: Lauri Gaffin
© Photograph: Lauri Gaffin
With a sharp eye and saturated colours, Parr’s photographs revealed the world in all its eccentric glory. Here, his friends, peers and collaborators pay tribute to a master
Grayson Perry, artist
I’ve never really been a fanboy, but the first time I saw Martin Parr I ran up and drunkenly hugged him. I said: “I love you Martin Parr!” I couldn’t help it. He was a hero of mine. And over the years he became my best artist friend.
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© Photograph: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Photo London
© Photograph: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Photo London
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