The Sun Magazine

Some African harmonic traditions and histories may have been redacted, but they’re not lost. In New Orleans, specifically among the tribes, they made sure to hold on to those histories and the skeleton keys of those expressions.

Will Harlan Campbell lives in Durham, North Carolina, just a couple of miles from the high school where he took his first photography class some thirty years ago. Today he specializes in analog and historic photographic processes. His tintype portrait of Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah was exposed directly on a sensitized metal plate in camera using the historic w...

I’ve enjoyed The Sun for years, and I devour each issue cover to cover. In the February 2026 issue, two articles really stood out for me. The first was “The Fourth Estate,” Finn Cohen’s interview with Sheila Coronel. Coronel offers reassurance that fact-based investigative reporting is still being taught in journalism programs, and that brave souls continue to pu...

A Thousand Words features photography so rich with narrative that it tells a story all on its own.

Still, I hadn’t counted on real, live rats. “I’m surprised you hadn’t heard them before,” said Rat Guy #1, as he came to be known. “From the looks of it they’ve been here a while.”