The Best Photography 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:
An Inside Look At The Unique Lives Of Circus Performers
Twenty-three-year-old Johanna-Maria Fritz has been photographing the circus since she was 17. First, in her native Germany, then Iceland, next the Middle East. More attracted to the familial communities that circuses create than the public performances, her work looks at the troupes' relationships to their surroundings, inside and outside the big top.
[See the photos at National Geographic]
A Tour De Force Between Man And Beast
Under the protection and guidance of Saint Lawrence, brave participants and entranced spectators alike ready themselves for the "A Rapa das Bestas," otherwise known as The Shearing of the Beasts.
[See the photos at ViewFind]
Chasing Tornadoes Through The Midwest
Mitch Dobrowner always brings two things when he takes off in his truck to capture a storm: his tripod and his beanie. Sometimes driving 500 miles to take a chance based on cell boosters and his "storm guide" named Roger, he thinks of each storm like a person — each one is born fragile, and no two behave alike.
[See the photos at Vantage]
A Slow Ride Through (and Around) Yangon
Like much else in the country, which is still emerging from decades of isolation under military rule, the Circle Line [of Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city] is a functioning, if fading, piece of the past. But modernization is on the way, and commuters who take the train daily say it cannot come soon enough.
[See the photos at The New York Times]
'If This Is True': A Glimpse Into Today's America
After packing her gear into saddlebags on either side of her Harley-Davidson motorcycle, this photographer [Robin de Puy] rode 8,000 miles to capture distinctive faces across the United States.
[See the photos at LensCulture]
The Last Of The Colombian Cowboys
She [photographer Juanita Escobar] travelled to the region aged 19 to document the spectacular mix of wildlife, flora and fauna for the Natural Reserve Palmarito in the Casanare State. But during her work, a chance encounter would change her path and purpose.
Escobar met a 65-year-old Llanero, named Ricardo Daza, who invited her to join him and document the Llanero way of life; unique to that region and unfamiliar to the average Colombian.
[See the photos at Time]
Three Under Five: The Frontline Of Fatherhood
When our oldest daughter was in preschool, my reporter wife was fired after organizing a union in her newsroom. We decided to have a second kid anyway. Three months after she was born, we learned that our third daughter was on the way. Thus began the era we sometimes call "Three under Five," where diapers and binkies compete with my professional goals and my wife's rising union career.
[See the photos at ViewFind]
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