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:
Cocooned Skyscrapers
These spectral scaffolds have been used for construction, renovation, and demolition in China for thousands of years, and they're also objects of enduring fascination for scholars and artists.
[See the photos at Atlas Obscura]
The Holocaust's Paradox Of Good And Evil, In Photographs
There are dark and evocative photographs, taken over the past 30 years, of Nazi concentration and extermination camps in Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia, as well as portraits and stories of Danish citizens who, under German occupation 75 years ago, bravely resisted the Third Reich by transporting to safety the country's Jews, some of whom are also profiled.
[See the photos at The New York Times]
The Beauty And Danger Of Australia's Salt Lakes
The salt lakes predate human settlement, but over the past hundred years so-called "secondary salinization" has made the lakes' natural chemistry even more extreme. These conditions also produce lakes that, when viewed from above, throb with extraordinary shades of rust, lemon yellow, pink, lavender, and bright green.
[See the photos at Wired]
Revealing Pictures Shine A New Light On Inuit Culture
Inupiaq rapper AKU-MATU inhabits many forms when onstage… Offstage, she's Allison Akootchook Warden, an environmental activist who employs song, dance, theatre, performance art and social media to spread her message of caring for land and tradition, while stretching notions of what it means to be Inuit beyond stereotypes about igloos and dogsleds.
[See the photos at National Geographic]
The Guardians Haunting Mexican Family Portraits
Each photograph depicts a normal domestic scene: gathering around a table for coffee, getting a hair cut, or playing in the living room with television on in the background. Moreno's grotesque guardians are participants in or witnesses to these everyday tableaux, which doesn't seem to surprise or alarm the humans in the room.
[See the photos at Colossal]
The Highs And Lows Of A Whirlwind Romance
17 years after a painful breakup, Ada Bligaard SΓΈby decided to make a book on life and love with her ex-boyfriend, pooling their family archives to plot a visual timeline of their lives β before and after the relationship. It turned out to be the wildest ride of her career.
[See the photos at Huck Magazine]
The Heartbreaking Reality Of Child Labor
Akash has spent over a decade documenting the plight of child laborers in Bangladesh. By giving a face to this issue, he forces the public to look at the human toll of an all too common phenomenon. These children, who are tasked with backbreaking, dangerous work, support themselves and their entire families starting as young as 5 years old.
[See the photos at My Modern Met]
A Portrait Of Love And Struggle In Post-Industrial, Small-City America
Troy was once a wealthy industrial city, the kind of place that "embodied the idea of America as a land where every person's dreams were realized." But, by the time Kenneally was a teenager, in the nineteen-seventies, the industrialization that originally distinguished the city had contributed to its demise, as factories left the region to chase overseas deals.
[See the photos at The New Yorker]β