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:

This Is 18

 

What does life look like for girls turning 18 in 2018? We gave young women photographers around the world an assignment: Show us 18 in your community. This is 18 — through girls' eyes.

[See the photos at The New York Times]

The Female Nightcrawlers Of Manila

Racing between murder scenes with the journalists covering Duterte's bloody drug war.

[See the photos at Topic]

Cities, In A Different Light

 

Antony Cairns photographs a world under construction. His use of experimental darkroom processes renders cityscapes abstract to the point of being nearly unrecognizable, reduced to stark shapes in black and white.

[See the photos at The Washington Post]

A Fashion Photo Shoot About Intimate Beauty Of Laundry Day

According to the creative minds behind this stylish shoot, doing laundry is a universal self-care routine that speaks to who we really are.

[See the photos at Vice]

The Impact Of Human Intervention

 

All of my landscapes aren't disaster landscapes—these are business-as-usual landscapes. These are the things that we create. There is design and engineering in a mine or a quarry. We have engineers that cut this way and not that way. Everything is a considered thing in these landscapes. 

[See the photos at Format]

Inside The Psychiatric Hospitals And Churches Of China

Lu Nan offers a seldom-seen glimpse at China and Tibet, through the eyes of psychiatric patients, Catholics and peasant farmers.

[See the photos at The Guardian]

Exploring The Vulnerability In Colombia

 

My great inspiration is my country: Colombia and its landscapes. I feel that nature makes us go back to the essence of life, to the roots of where we come from. Nowadays we are so connected to technology, and we are in such a constant rush that we forget to stop and breathe.

[See the photos at iGNANT]

The Camp In Alabama Bringing Outer Space To The Blind

Each year, a group of fourth to 12th graders head to the Space Camp for Interested Visually Impaired Students in Huntsville, Alabama, to learn what it's like to launch into orbit, float in zero gravity, and walk on the moon—even if they can't actually see it.

[See the photos at Wired]

The Winners Of Scuba Diving Magazine's 2018 Underwater Photo Contest

 Conor Culver via Scuba Diving Magazine

I came across this coconut octopus while muck diving; the creature perfectly posed, turning deep red and wrapping its tentacles up symmetrically. Ultimately I would create a "home" for it with a small bottle I found diving the USS Baja California off Naples, Florida, to reference how these creatures are often seen: in our disregarded trash.

[See the photos at Scuba Diving Magazine]

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