The Lives Of Street Cats Around The World, And Other Best Photos 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:
The Bond Between Mongolian Eagle Keepers And Their Birds
In ancient times, the practice was restricted to the noble classes, but today berkutchi — as it's called in Mongolia — is a right of passage for young men living in Western Mongolia's Altai region.
[See the photos at My Modern Met]
The Lost Photos Of 1970s British Boarding School Life
What life was really like at one elite school — roughhousing, crushes, and spliffs included.
[See the photos at Topic]
Spending Christmas Eve With The Gypsies Of Perpignan, France
One of the oldest neighborhoods in Perpignan, Saint-Jacques is home to one of the rare communities of gypsies that still live within a city's center. Unemployment and poverty can be rampant there, but their streets are full of life, as French photographer Jeanne Taris found when she started working there, in 2016[.]
[See the photos at The Washington Post]
A Mother And Daughter's Unlikely Journey As Migrant Workers
Xyza Bacani and her mother were migrant domestic workers who left their home in the Philippines for Hong Kong. She photographed her mother's path and the effect it had on their family.
[See the photos at The New York Times]
The Lives Of Street Cats Around The World
For 18 years, Tuul and Bruno Morandi photographed the people, cities, and landscapes of the world. As they traveled, they accidentally started to accumulate extra photos of another, nonhuman subject: the furry, friendly faces of street cats.
[See the photos at National Geographic]
The Beauty Of Badly Repaired Cars
Milanese photographer Ronni Campana draws attention to the abstract visual beauty one can find in the best and worst car repair jobs, in his print publication titled Badly Repaired Cars.
[See the photos at iGNANT]
It's A Fractal World, After All
For her latest series, Blackmer has been shooting macro images of the frost crystals that form inside the storm windows of her Maine farmhouse.
[See the photos at Wired]
Dreaming On
By reconstructing scenes and settings from her subjects' dream journals, this photographer transports us into the unsettling dimension of nightmares and reverie.
[See the photos at LensCulture]