Photo Essays
The World 50 Years Ago: 1963 in LIFE Covers
When discussing the Sixties, most commentators point to 1968 as the year that not only “defined” the decade but, in fact, somehow encapsulated the hopes and...
Fatal Frontier: The Perils of Crossing the Rio Grande
In 2012, sheriff’s deputies in Brooks County, Texas, uncovered 129 bodies, around double the number of the year before and six times recorded fatalities from...
Julio Cu Camara, Mexico City’s Sewer Diver
52-year-old Julio Cu Camara dives into the sewage system in Mexico City about four times per month, working anywhere from 30 minutes to six hours to make...
On Patrol Along the U.S.-Mexico Border
An immigration bill being written in the U.S. Senate aims to clamp down on illegal crossings along the southwestern border with Mexico while maintaining a...
Photographer Spotlight: John Dominis
Some photographers are so skilled at covering a specific topic, or through the years have created so distinctive a feel in their pictures, that it’s possible to...
Shower? Check. Washing Machine? Check. Hookah? Check. Let’s Ride
As Tennyson might have written, if he lived in 2013 and wasn’t a very good poet, “in the spring, one’s fancy turns to thoughts of automobiles.” After all, as the...
Georgia O’Keeffe: Invincible
Very few major American artists have ever been as productive, for so long, in so many mediums, as Georgia O’Keeffe was during her extraordinary career. From her...
Mexico's Clown Congress
The 13th annual meeting of street performers gathers in Mexico City
Inside Mexico's Drug Tunnels
Mexico's cartels employ increasingly sophisticated technology to burrow under the border
Hurricane Jova Hits Mexico
The storm brings torrential rains and 100 mile-per-hour winds to Mexico's coastline
Mexico's Drug War: The Battle for Culiacan
Murder proliferates in the home of Mexico's $25 billion drug-trafficking industry Photographs by Anthony Suau for TIME
Mexico's Drug Wars
Photographer Anthony Suau documents the surging influence of the drug cartels in Northern Mexico and the efforts by police to maintain law and order
Rough Weather Hits Mexico, Central America
A mudslide in Oaxaca is the latest in a series of disasters to strike southern Mexico and Guatemala
Swine Flu Hits Mexico
The swine flu outbreak in Mexico has killed at least 150 people and spread to nations as far away as New Zealand and Spain.
Linda Christian: The Real ‘First Bond Girl’
As the latest Bond film, Skyfall, bows in the U.S. — after setting box-office records overseas — media everywhere are looking back at 007 movies and celebrating...
Photos: Mexico Copes With Historic Drought
Millions are affected by the country's worst dry spell in seven decades
‘I’m Gonna Live by the Gun and Roam’: Portrait of a Spree Killer, 1951
The story of the American mass murderer Billy “Cockeyed” Cook — who killed six people, including an entire family of five, during a terrifying three-week spree...
Joe Frazier: Remembering a Warrior
The universe of sport is built on rivalries. It doesn’t really matter if the rivalry involves two teams (Michigan and Ohio State, Liverpool and Man U), countries...
Fighting Crime in Mexico City
Photographer Erik Meza rides with the Federal Police in the Mexican capital as they battle a seemingly endless wave of lawlessness
