The big picture: Central Park Zoo’s star turn by Thomas Hoepker
The German photographer, who died earlier this month, moved to New York in 1976 where he took many celebrated images including this shot of Gus the polar bear
The big picture: Abdulhamid Kircher reflects on his traumatic family history
Kircher’s seemingly innocent shot of his father’s girlfriend having her hair dyed in an Istanbul salon belies the truth about the couple’s reason for visiting
The big picture: all of Birmingham’s human life is here
Claire Douglass’s giant vista of ‘late-stage capitalism in frightening times’ features many city notables, including Joe Lycett clutching a carrier bag
The big picture: life in the shadow of a Teesside ironworks by Graham Smith
The Middlesbrough-born photographer’s 1981 portrait has intimations of the gruelling working life endured by his father and of Britain’s lost industrial past
The big picture: George Hoyningen-Huene’s mysterious Divers
Seemingly shot on the French Riviera, the grand make-believe and glamour of this famous image is characteristic of the photographer’s work for French Vogue’s golden age