Photography

Harvard’s campus and community through the lens of our photographers.

All from this series

  • An exhibit with legs

    Harvard’s Pacific octopus specimen has lived on campus since about 1883. Now, fully restored, the model hangs in the Northwest Labs building.

    Giant Pacific octopus hanging from celing.

  • War-scarred land

    Makeda Best on images she chose for award-winning “Devour the Land,” which depicts environmental toll of militarism in U.S.

    "Dried Pond along the Rio Grande."

  • Our favorite pictures of 2022 have a theme: Zoom, out

    Harvard photographers document the vibrant return to campus life after two years of pandemic restrictions.

    Collage of 2022 Gazette photos.

  • Through the looking glass

    A kaleidoscopic view of campus.

    Lowell House is reflected in the surface of a car.

  • Start-the-day rite

    To start the day right or wind down in peace, many of us rely on rituals, whether physical or spiritual. Here are four rituals that carry us through.

  • Sniffing for smiles

    Meet Sasha, newest member of Harvard police force. Her duty? To spread joy.

    Sasha extends paw to Officer Steven Fumicello.

  • Defining moment

    We asked a group of first-years to tell us about themselves. Read their answers now, before they change.

    Students enter campus gate.

  • A look ’round the Square

    The students and the shops may change in Harvard Square, but its spirit and streets carry on.

    Rainbow in Harvard Square.

  • Face to face with ancient Egyptians

    Realistic mummy portraits, on view at Harvard Art Museums, shed light on life, death in multicultural Roman era 2,000 years ago

    Three mummy portraits of bearded man wearing white tunic, woman wearing white tunic with purple sash, and woman wearing a purple tunic.

  • A week of firsts, and the first of a last

    Classrooms across Harvard College came back to life last week with the start of the new academic year.

    Professor Katherine Merseth.

  • Learning can be fun. Just ask these ‘Explorers.’

    Harvard Ed Portal program offers skill-building activities for Allston-Brighton students in grades 2-8.

    Maxwell Luo (clockwise from left), Raymond Wang, Michelle Luo, and Alan Wang examine skeleton samples in the classroom.

  • The still moment

    Gazette photographer Kris Snibbe captures the geometry found in spaces and places on campus.

    CGIS South cherry trees.

  • How to move a dragon — fast

    Harvard’s Dragon Boat racers find fun, fellowship, and amazing views of Boston.

    Benika Pinch paddles during Harvard Dragon Boat practice on the Charles River.

  • Triple the joy

    Festive rites and poignant moments as Classes of 2022, 2021, and 2020 gather to mark milestone.

    Harvard graduates celebrate Commencement 2022 in Tercentenary Theatre.

  • Looking up

    Photographer captures the campus details that often go over our heads.

    Dexter Gate greets visitors to Harvard Yard with the inscription: “Enter to grow in wisdom."

  • ‘Arts First has come back to life’

    For the first time since 2020, Arts First returned to live performances on Harvard’s campus.

    The Harvard University Band performs in the Science Center Plaza.

  • Art with a conscience

    Pioneering prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives now hang on the walls of the Harvard Art Museums.

    Allan Edmunds, founder of the Brandywine Workshop and Archives,

  • A gallery of their own

    Four artists who happen to work at Harvard during their other hours say why the creative arts are important to theme.

    Kate Pease.

  • Rhapsody in blue

    Gazette photographers use the cyanotype printing process to capture Harvard Yard trees.

    A cyanotype composites an oak leaf from Harvard Yard with a figure walking toward Massachusetts Hall.

  • Dreams and classics come alive in ‘Nighttown’

    Composer and librettist Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg ’22 brings “Nighttown” to the stage.

  • Housing Day is back in the house

    After a two-year COVID hiatus, upperclass students return to the Yard to welcome first-years to their future homes.

    Students grasp envelopes with the Housing assignments for first-year students.

  • A place on the cutting edge

    A photographer explores the space and meets the people working inside Harvard’s new complex in Allston.

  • Live, from Harvard Square, it’s spring semester

    The new semester brings a return to in-person School.

    A window display in Canaday Hall celebrates the return of Harvard students on campus.

  • Season of cheer

    Photographer captures festive traditions that light way from fall to winter.

    (Venerable) Vandan Sadhak, HDS student and Hindu monastic celebrates Diwali at dusk outside Swartz Hall.

  • The art of the real

    The Harvard University Committee on the Arts invites seven visiting artists to create works across campus.

    Timothy Hall, one of the artists commissioned by HUCA, is pictured at Arnold Arboretum.

  • Wrapping it up

    Harvard Ed Portal’s fifth annual Allston-Brighton Winter Market is back as a virtual market again this year with the online shops of 41 local artisans offering unique gifts.

    Tim Rice, Oyinda Oyelaran, Zangar Freeman, and Reece and Remi Antunes, Winter Market artists, show their work..

  • Moving together again

    Studios reopen for in-person classes in Soca Fusion, Latinx Movement, and more.

    LROD leads Latinx Movement class.

  • Back to play

    After Ivy League COVID shutdown, players return to field with new perspective.

    Silhouette of person at stadium.

  • Ideas captured in chalk on slate

    They offer windows into the problems, questions, theories, arguments on students’ minds this semester.

    Hakim Walker writes on math lounge chalkboard.

  • A year of revelations

    Baking, gardening, and other activities taken up during COVID provided a new perspective.

    Julie Field and her friends Gee Kiwanuka, Stephanie Tilton and Eleanor Kuchar are pictured with her mule Gulliver.