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:
The Underground Ballroom Scene Of The Netherlands
While it perceives itself as one of the most sexually liberal nations in the world, the Netherland's black LGBTQ community remains unseen, unheard, and underrepresented.
[See the photos at Huck Magazine]
Life Before The Chernobyl Disaster
"I want to learn as much as possible about what was in Chernobyl zone before the explosion," Mr. Dondyuk said in an email, "and to save these visual, historical objects, if in my country nobody bothered to do it for more than 30 years."
[See the photos at The New York Times]
The Homemade Gun Targets Of The American West
Alexa Hoyer takes dreamlike photographs of bullet-riddled found objects amid the sweeping landscapes of Nevada.
[See the photos at Vice]
Inside The US Military's Secret Doomsday Defense
Growing up in a suburb of Washington, DC, at the height of the Cold War, Jim Lo Scalzo knew he would be one of the first victims of any Soviet nuclear attack on the United States. "It was a genuine fear among me and my friends," he says.
[See the photos at Wired]
'Mirror, Mirror'
"The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear," McGinley once said in an interview. He really vanished for "Mirror, Mirror"—he wasn't even there when the pictures were taken. Instead, he supplied his friends with cameras, rolls of 35-mm. film, twenty mirrors, and instructions to shoot some self-portraits.
[See the photos at The New Yorker]
American Interiors
While working as a valet at a Veterans Affairs Hospital, M L Casteel created a series that uses photographs of car interiors to illustrate the psychological repercussions of war.
[See the photos at Lens Culture]
The Mystical Forests Of Norway
Scandinavian folklore lingers in the periphery of Nilander's world, in subtle ways; we anticipate the footfalls of trolls and huldra, who have inhabited these forests and valleys long before we were born. But we never see anything outright frightening; instead, the photographer hints at the presence of something not quite of this world
[See the photos at Feature Shoot]
Postcards From The Edge
The Berkeley Pit is a gorgeous, toxic former mining site in Montana that's beloved by tourists. But unless it's cleaned up soon, it could become the worst environmental disaster in American history.
[See the photos at Topic]
