The Best Photography Of The Week
Every week, we curate 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:
Living Beneath The Ground In An Australian Desert
For about a century, residents of Coober Pedy have escaped the searing heat by building their homes underground.
[See the photos at The New York Times]
A Photo Of The Man Who Fired Van Gogh
While we know Van Gogh's visage well from his many self-portraits, no one knew what this man Obach, who changed the course of Western art history, looked like—until now.
[See the photo at Atlas Obscura]
What Casablanca Really Looks Like In Real Life
"This project is the answer for all the people who ask me if Casablanca is like the movie," says Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas. "Tourists want to go to Rick's Cafe, but many local people don't even know about the film Casablanca."
[See the photos at National Geographic]
A Trans Latinx Artist's High-Fashion Critique Of Colonialism
Inside, a hundred and forty-six pages pages are filled with Vogue-worthy fashion spreads—and the ad campaigns that make them possible—featuring Gutierrez playing the roles of an entire agency's worth of models.
[See the photos at The New Yorker]
How To Make New York's Subways Even More Horrifying
The photographer Victor Llorente went to Union Square's "Haunted Subway" and captured the terror of an already terrifying mode of transportation.
[See the photos at Vice]
The World's Toughest Horse Race
The three water jumps are across a stream that runs through the course, and used to be so deep that horses and jockeys who fell would be up to their necks in water.
[See the photos at The Guardian]
The Spirit Of The 1990s
The book, "The Untamed Eye," […] includes black-and-white images of some of the most iconic people in fashion and entertainment, including Kate Moss, Heath Ledger and Keith Richards.
[See the photos at The Washington Post]
Living In The Line Of Fire
How can you move on when your community is nearly defined by loss? Fear, resilience, and funerals with the locals of Chicago's South and West Sides, where gun violence is epidemic.
[See the photos at Topic]
Inside The Dark, Depraved World Of Frat Culture
"People want to see Brett Kavanaugh in college and the closest thing they have is my book. But my subjects are not Brett Kavanaugh; none that I know of did what I believe he did, and some I admire," Moisey notes. "But at the same time, my book investigates a culture that has historically protected America's Brett Kavanaughs and often encouraged his behavior.["]
[See the photos at Huck Magazine]