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Maine Darkroom
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In photos: A gloomy start, then glory in our photo gallery of summer 2023
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In photos: Families dig Ocean Park’s sand sculpture contest
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In photos: The music of summer’s arrival
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In photos: A look inside the lives of Maine’s parent caregivers
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In photos: Spring is in the air
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Schools and Education
Meet our 2023 Graduates to Watch
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In photos: Seeing blue
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Religion and Values
In photos: Good Friday observances in South Portland, Waterville
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In photos: The Baxter Seagulls basketball team takes to the court
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In photos: After some dustings, snow finally makes clean sweep over Maine
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2022 Photos Of The Year
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2022 Photos Of The Year: Life without a home
Jeanie Cannell, her husband and his daughter lived in a van at the Kennebunk travel plaza on the Maine Turnpike for three months, unable to find affordable housing even though two of them work full time. They have gotten help from strangers – money, meals, even months in an RV at a campground, since Jeanie told their story in July. But a long-term home remains elusive, for the Cannells and thousands of other Mainers. Photos by staff photographer Brianna Soukup
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2022 Photos Of The Year: Seeking new lives in Maine
Hundreds of asylum seekers continued to arrive in Maine in 2022, overwhelming cities and towns' ability to house them and provide basic needs. While asylum seekers fleeing violence in their own countries are allowed to remain in the U.S. while making their case to immigration courts, federal law requires a months-long wait for work permits. In May, Portland announced it could no longer guarantee shelter or aid for asylum-seeking families, many of whom were housed temporarily in hotels. Throughout the year, Press Herald photographers documented their new lives in Maine.
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In photos: Lovely, dark and deep
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Meet our 2022 Mainers To Be Thankful For
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In photos: Lovable characters prowl South Portland neighborhood on Halloween
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In photos: A sunrise celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day
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In photos: A good-humored man continues a summer tradition
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Photos: Maine shows off in the fall
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In photos: Best of September
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In photos: Cumberland Fair opens for its 150th year
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In photos: A spotlight on problems at Franklin Towers
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In photos: The best of July
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In photos: In the summertime
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In photos: Two families, one farm for three generations
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In photos: Row, row, row your (cardboard) boat
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Best of May photo gallery: A month of contrasts
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In photos: Last dance at Dirigo High
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What abortion rights mean to me
Six Mainers explain why Roe v. Wade is important to them personally.
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‘Like giant Legos going together’: Watch a time lapse of the I-295 bridge replacement
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In photos: The Great Bridge Switcheroo
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In photos: Slowly, slowly, signs of spring
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In photos: The best of March photography
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In photos: Sweet spring sugaring, a celebration of Maine Maple Weekend
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St. Patrick’s Day in photos: With pandemic restrictions lifted, Mainers say ‘sláinte!’
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Varsity Maine
In photos: Saturday’s Maine high school basketball tournament games
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Varsity Maine
Photos: Maine high school basketball tournament
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In photos: A memorable February
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In photos: Scenes of a frozen Maine
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The best Press Herald photography in January 2022
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2021 Photos of the Year: Photographers’ Choice
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2021 Photos Of the Year: A Pandemic Story
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2021 Photos Of the Year: The Lobster Trap
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In photos: The hunt for the perfect Christmas tree
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Our 2021 Mainers to Be Thankful For
Even as the pandemic continues to test our society and how we relate to one another, we don't have to look far to find people who, every day, disregard differences to help their fellow humans.
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In photos: Scenes of fall in Maine
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In photos: Seeing red
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In photos: The last races at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway
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In photos: Maine summer in full swing
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Varsity Maine
In photos: Highlights of the spring season’s high school sports
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In photos: Graduating seniors celebrate a major milestone
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Maine’s Graduates to Watch: Class of 2021
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In photos: Maine teens who got vaccines
Photographers caught up to Portland-area high school students getting their COVID-19 vaccinations this spring. Here’s what they had to say.
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In photos: Scenes of April give way to flowers of May
Our photographers capture the dreary and the glorious of April before it finally yields to the sunshine of true spring.
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In photos: Portraits of newly vaccinated Mainers
Thousands of adults in Maine are being vaccinated every week, and the state's vaccination program will be getting a substantial boost this week.
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In photos: Despite a pandemic, Maine’s maple season remains just as sweet
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In photos: A winter wonderland just outside your door
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In photos: Uplifting scenes of Maine
View photographer Gregory Rec's images from Saddleback, Sugarloaf and Sunday River, taken from the perspective of lift chairs.
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In photos: Ice, an otherworldly beauty
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In photos: Making it snow at Sunday River
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In photos: Lighting up the night
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In photos: Live racing ends at Scarborough Downs
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Press Herald’s 2020 Photos of the Year
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In photos: Mainers talk about what they’re grateful for
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Our 2020 Mainers to Be Thankful For
In a year that’s been trying like none before, we’ve seen the best of humanity come out through kindness, bravery, innovation and determination. Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve recognized people who have stepped up to help fellow Mainers. We knew there were more so we asked you, our readers, to tell us who is making a difference in your community. This year, finding Mainers to be thankful for was easier than ever.
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In photos: The week COVID-19 surged in Maine
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Election 2020
In photos: A look back at historic Election Day 2020 in Maine
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Consider the lowly gull: A photo essay
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Maine trees, burning bright
In photos: The glowing yellows, oranges and reds of autumn in Maine
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Apple-picking time, a fall tradition in Maine, has arrived
Our photojournalists
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Derek Davis
Ben McCanna
Shawn Ouellette
Greg Rec
Brianna Soukup
Michele McDonald
Photo Editor
Photo Editor
The power of photojournalism
Photojournalism differs from other genres of photography in that it is based on ethics, on the fair and honest representation of the story. From this, photographers build photos that are intimate, visually elegant and inviting. They try to make photographs with narrative clarity, while leaving space for interpretation. The photographer strives to capture the moment through her own perspective while the viewer may find something else in it.
As the acclaimed landscape photographer Ansel Adams said, you don’t make a photograph with just a camera. “You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the people you have loved.”
Portland Press Herald photographers look at Maine and Mainers deeply and authentically. They aim for uncovering and connecting us with more than the renowned beauty of our state, but with our shared humanity.