Life In The Coldest Inhabited Place On Earth, And More Of The Best Photography Of The Week
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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 Young People Left Behind In China's Snowbound Rust Belt

 

Ronghui Chen's photographs of young people in Northeastern China capture a loneliness he recognized in his own trek from village to city.

[See the photos at The New York Times]

Mugshots From The 19th Century

These images are taken from an album containing 934 mugshots of people incarcerated at HM General prison in Perth, Scotland, in the early 1880s. 

[See the photos at The Guardian]

An Unflinching View Of Venezuela In Crisis

 

A native of Caracas, Cegarra depicts life in his home town as precariously strung-out and pared-down, shorn of any softness. We see street preachers shouting, inmates weight lifting, children running in fear, bloodstains on the ground, predatory soldiers with masked faces and black helmets, men brandishing weapons, one of them a youngster standing purposefully with a sawed-off shotgun. 

[See the photos at The New Yorker]

The Colors Of Sicily's Red Light District

"San Berillo is a very complicated neighbourhood in Sicily, so I could easily slip onto the politics. But I was just curious to show the world a different Sicily: playful, colourful and also grimy and salacious."

[See the photos at It's Nice That]

Banking On Banks

These days, a bank vault is as likely to hold cocktails — or gym equipment, or a condo lobby — as cash. And who can blame people for repurposing the rooms? They look great on Instagram.

[See the photos at Topic]

The Siberian City Where the Winter High Is –40°F

 

With average highs of –40 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter, the Siberian city of Yakutsk, Russia is one of the world's coldest continually inhabited places.

[See the photos at Wired]

'Last Day Of Chemotherapy'

Clarke started the series after being diagnosed with cancer, and the result is an unflinchingly honest stage-by-stage account of her chemotherapy treatment. 

​[See the photos at British Journal of Photography]

<p>Pang-Chieh Ho is an associate editor at Digg.</p>

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