The Best Photography Of The Week
Every week, our friends at ViewFind are curating 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:
Reversing History In Angola
Once at the will of Portugal, Angola is now experiencing annual growth rates between 10% and 15% — while in a strange twist of fate, its ex-ruler is struggling to climb out of its recession.
Through his documentation of daily life in Luanda, photojournalist Joan Bardeletti tracks a historically unique phenomenon — Westerners emigrating to Africa for better opportunities.
[See the photos at ViewFind]
'Star Wars: The Last Jedi,' Photographed By Annie Leibovitz
Star Wars devotees who can't wait for December need look no further.
[See the photos at Vanity Fair]
Eat Your Heart Out, Instagram: The History Of Food Photography
Food — of any sort — is not just a good practice subject. It was also part of early photography's anxious case to be considered art.
[See the photos at The Telegraph]
Alone On The Open Road
President Trump ignited a national discussion of blue-collar jobs. Truck driving, once a road to the middle class, is now low-paying, grinding, unhealthy work. We talked with drivers about why they do it.
[See the photos at The New York Times]
Photographing The Gritty Side Of Brooklyn
The photographer known as Boogie has a style that veers toward the darker side of human existence.
[See the photos at Ozy]
The North Fork
This intimate series is the result of the photographer's decades-long fascination with a remote valley, its idiosyncratic inhabitants and a long, personal history of family strife.
[See the photos at LensCulture]
'Forget What You Remember And Remember What You Forgot': A Different View Of Vietnam
[T]he sun rises just like any other place. And you remember what first brought you to this intoxicating country. The kindness and sheer resilience of a people who had been fighting invaders for more than 100 years. A people still fractured from a devastating civil war backed by foreign interests. A people who embrace capitalism over communism. A beauty of a country and its people strewn throughout the world that is now within me.
[See the photos at The Washington Post]
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