The Best Photos Of The Week
Every week, our friends at Viewfind are curating the best new photography and photojournalism on the web, so you can spend your weekend kicking back and enjoying some beautiful pictures. Here are this week's picks:
When Star Wars Meets Street Photography
"As a person who now makes a living with creativity, I realized that I owed Star Wars a lot. It was the first thing that sparked my imagination, and I felt this urge to honour it."
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The Price Of Progress On The Mekong River
Achieving economic prosperity and preserving the wonders of our natural environment is an increasingly problematic balance. Chinese photojournalist Jian Gao has helped humanize this vexing predicament in vivid color, having traveled along the Mekong River to explore the effects of sand mining in Southeast Asia.
[See the photos at ViewFind]
What Young Womanhood Really Looks Like
Photographer Gabby Jones turns her lens to what's directly in front of her, offering a candid look at how young women experience femininity in the America today.
[See the rest at Huck]
Chris Maggio's Photographs Of Midtown Manhattan Are Hot As Hell
[In Maggio's photos] children paint their foreheads with melting ice cream cones, the sun beams down in apocalyptic crimson hues, people resemble the walking dead, their expressions falling somewhere between a vapid gaze and knowing smirk.
[See the photos at Humble Arts Foundation]
The Dancing Holy Clowns Of Mexico
[Lujan] Agusti's "Dancing Clowns" is a series of surreal portraits, elaborate and visually unsettling. In other words, they are like clowns in the real world, or, as she stresses, in the religious world. Garish, they clash with their backgrounds and even themselves.
[See the rest at The New York Times]
Portraits Of A Continent
A wide-ranging and varied portrait of the people who make up the African continent—with particular focus on the young people in Sierra Leone who are struggling to rebuild their lives after incarceration.
[See the photos at LensCulture]
Surprising Photos From The US-Mexico Border
What we did discover, however, were people engaged in small acts of resistance, resilience, and reclamation: a man who rows, recreationally, on the Rio Grande; first- and second-generation Mexican Americans who are running local political offices; a family, against immense hardship, putting together the money for their daughter's quinceañera.
[See the rest at VICE]
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