The Best Photography Of The Week
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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: 

Amazon Tribes Stand Up For Their Survival

 Aaron Vincent Elkaim via National Geographic

The world's fourth-largest dam will flood some of the land that indigenous tribes have lived on for centuries.

[See the photos at National Geographic]

The Transient Nature Of The Las Vegas Strip

 Ed Peters via LensCulture

Las Vegas — and its famous strip of casinos, hotels, and bars — only exists due to a series of historical coincidences. Among other things, the confluence of legalized gambling, quickie marriages, World War II (and the Baby Boom that followed), and enterprising gangsters came together and transformed a small railroad stop into one of the entertainment capitals of the world.

[See the photos at LensCulture]

A Dying Cheese-Making Tradition In The French Alps

 Nicolas Blandin via Feature Shoot

The natural landscapes in Blandin's photographs are beautiful and in some ways present an idyllic lifestyle in the hills, but there is also often that encroaching fog which reminds us of the harsh, inhospitable weather mountain farmers must endure. It's barely Autumn, and already the first snow has fallen.

[See the photos at Feature Shoot]

Abuelas • Portraits of the Invisible Grandmothers

 Cinthya Santos Briones via Vogue

This series focuses on undocumented Mexican immigrant women who came to New York decades ago in search of opportunity for their families. Overtime they have built lives here and have become the elders of their community: the abuelas. 

[See the photos at Vogue]

The South African Skate Punks Sparking A Cultural Revolution

 Karabo Mooki via Huck Magazine

South Africa is still reeling from decades of divisive rule. Students are protesting against colonialist remnants of the past and communities still exist within borders. But in Soweto, the township-turned-city that first triggered the fight for civil rights, a new counter-culture is burning. It's raw. It's punk. It doesn't give a fuck. And it's writing its own history.

[See the photos at Huck Magazine]

The Indomitable Spirit Of The Idomeni Refugee Camp

 Antonis Pasvantis via ViewFind

As thousands of refugees huddle together outside their tents in a small wheat field, they warm themselves around their campfire and dream of a new future. […] But as photojournalist Antonis Pasvantis shows us, the daily toil for refugees staying at the camp in Idomeni — next to the Greek-Macedonian border — starts to quiet these aspirations. Yet, while the talk gradually disappears, the will and determination of the people still burns bright.

[See the photos at ViewFind]

'The World In Faces': The Indigenous People Of Siberia

 Alexander Khimushin via My Modern Met

Over the past 6 months, Khimushin [the photographer] immersed himself in the Siberian landscape, traveling 15,000 miles alone behind the wheel of an SUV to track down, and photograph, the indigenous people of this frozen land. Moving from the shores of Lake Baikal to the coast of the Japan Sea, he visited a variety of ethnic minority tribes, many of whose population is down to several dozen people.

[See the photos at My Modern Met]

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