PHOTO tab 📷

Discover the best of AFP's photo production and that of its partners.

In this article:

• Photo display order

• Topshots & Essentials

• “Collections”

• Aspect ratio and image technique

• AFP Photo Selection

• Photo display adjustment

• Grouping together by album

1. Photo Display Order

• The displayed date always corresponds to the document's creation date, whether it's the date of writing for an article or the snapshot date for a photo.

• In the news feed, documents are sorted based on their publication/validation date and time.

  • This explains why a photo taken 9 minutes ago might appear after one from 2 hours ago if the latter was approved by the editorial team later.

  • For news-related purposes, like commemorating an anniversary, marking a death, or aligning with a specific theme (e.g., the example below from 2014), an archived photo can be reintroduced into the news feed, where it will seamlessly integrate with recent photos in the news feed mosaic.
    

• However, in a search result, the original photo will be prominently listed and indexed at its capture year, (2014 in this case).

2. Topshots & Essentials

• TOPSHOTS : The AFP editors select the best photos every day, known as “topshots”

• ESSENTIALS : AFP editors daily select the most significant photos from our production to help users identify the day’s top stories.

  ESSENTIALS focuses on the images that are indispensable for understanding the news, offering a complementary selection of the very best of AFP’s photo coverage.

  You can access it by activating the "topshots" or "essentials" button in the "Select" filter on the "Photos" tab:

For TOPSHOTS, if you type "topshot" or "topshots" alone in the search, you’re redirected to the "Photos" tab with the "topshots" filter enabled. If you add other words, the search is performed on those terms, but the "topshots" facet remains enabled.

3. "Collections" facet

All the pictures of the photo partners are available on AFP News (real time and full archive).

The 'Collections' facet allows you to display only AFP content or photos from a specific partner. It updates itself based on search results, showing only the names of providers (including partners) for which photos are available for the current search.

4. Aspect ratio and image technique

The facet "aspect ratio" allows you to limit the search results according to the desired format : horizontal, vertical, square, or panoramic. This feature is available for all photos available on the platform (AFP and partners).

The "Image Description" facet allows you to filter photographs according to the techniques used. These may include, for example, a dominant color, a specific shooting angle, or a particular photographic composition. This metadata is manually added by AFP teams and only applies to AFP photos.

5. [NEW ✨] AFP Photo Selection

The AFP Photo Selection page features a curated selection of photo content handpicked by AFP photo editors. To access this view:

Uncheck “Show the photo wire ” toggle on the Photo page. To return to the classic feed, simply re-check “Show the photo wire”. On the AFP Photo Selection page view, you have access to the very best of AFP photo content, organized into folders:

• AFP’s Top Photos: the most striking images of the moment (Topshots, sports, unusual photos, photos of the week)

• Highlights: powerful images, rare access, unusual angles

• Stock Images: photos classified by major themes

• Portraits: leading figures in the news (including AFP studio portraits)

6. Photo display adjustment

To enhance your browsing experience, you can adjust the size of the photo thumbnails displayed in the mosaic using an interactive slider:

Need an overview? Reduce the size of the photos by clicking on ‘-’ or by moving the blue slider to the left to increase the number of images displayed on the screen.

Want to see the details? Enlarge photo thumbnails by clicking on ‘+’ or moving the slider to the right for better visibility.

7. Grouping together by album

This feature allows you to present photos grouped together into albums. In order not to lose the news feed when multiple photos are validated, group photos together on the same subject. This grouping together is known as an album.

An album groups together photos that share the same trislug (in the example above aja-europa-soccer )or event, over a time frame from (D-1 to 12.00 am) to (D+1 to 12.00 am) where D is the day currently being consulted in the feed. (If you scroll down, D is not necessarily the current day.).

Photos which cannot be grouped together into an album are displayed alone.