PHOTO tab 📷

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

In this article: Topshots, the 'Group by album' feature, and the 'Collections' facet.

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).

Topshots

AFP's editorial team daily selects the best photos, known as "topshots."
You can access these:

• by entering the word "topshot" or "topshots" (not case-sensitive) in the search field.

  • If you enter this word by itself, you will be directed to the "Photos" tab of the news feed, with the "topshots" filter automatically selected. (The word "topshot" disappears from the search field.).

  • If you type this word together with one or more other terms, you will be directed to the result corresponding to the search using these other terms, with the "topshots" panel automatically activated. The best photos on this particular topic are then displayed. If you deactivate this panel, the word "topshot" disappears from the search field.

Enabling the "topshots" filter in the "Photos" tab:

"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.

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.