The Audubon Society has announced the winners of its 2026 photography contest, which, as in 2025, encompassed two parallel contests: one open to photographers and videographers in the United States and Canada and another for those in Chile and Colombia. Jacqueline Burke takes one of the grand prizes for her image of a roseate spoonbill, made at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park, Florida. "Hours, days, or sometimes even years of patience and effort go into creating a scenario in which a photographer is in the right place, at the right time, to capture a fleeting moment," notes Audubon.

  While the illustrator Brad Holland may not be a household name, you could say that if anyone represented the power of illustration to provoke, over the past half century, it would be this artist. Entirely self-taught, he worked his way up from studio rat, sweeping floors in a Chicago tattoo parlor to being one of the first in The New York Times’ roster of artists for its new Op Ed page, in 1970. The Watergate scandal offered the kind of material that excited Holland’s concept...