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:
An Eerie Look Inside A Chinese Love Doll Factory
"There were a few rooms in the factory," she tells Huck. "In the assembling room, there was an old lady sticking the nipples on a doll, and another lady in the filling room was sitting on a small bamboo chair with a head in her hand and a green mountain of filling in the background. A strange scene like this speaks to my imagination very much."
[See the photos at Huck Magazine]
Mold Eats World
Toxic mold could be lurking behind your walls, inside your ceiling, and beneath your countertops, and our warming climate isn't helping. But is this fungal explosion really the health risk we might think it is?
[See the photos at Topic]
Winners Of This Year's Small World Photomicrography Competition
First place was awarded to photographer Yousef Al Habshi for his image that captures part of the compound eyes and bright-greenish scales of the Asian red palm weevil. This beetle is very small at less than a half-inch in size and is found in the Philippines.
[See the photos at The Washington Post]
An Intimate Portrait Of Life After Life In Prison
Over the past five years, Bennett has begun documenting the lives of former inmates in the project Life After Life in Prison. Here we see women making their way back into the world, adapting to the challenges of life after having lost it all.
[See the photos at Feature Shoot]
Born To Dance
Born to Dance is a look at the wonders of childhood through the boys and girls who have found their calling in dance. Matter was inspired to start the project by his young daughter, who threw in an arabesque while shoveling snow.
[See the photos at My Modern Met]
Battle Of Hastings Revisited: Hundreds Re-Enact Conflict Of 1066
"Doing re-enactment makes you admire and respect the people of that time. We're 21st-century people with our flabby 21st-century bodies, and here we are trying to emulate 11th-century people. We don't have the core strength that our ancestors would have had. People in the original battle were tough. And it wasn't a short battle, it was an all-dayer."
[See the photos at The Guardian]
Subtle Surrealism By An 18-Year-Old Photographer
"I've always enjoyed surreal scenes, typically because they incorporate familiar things like the plastic bag", he says, "but the composition is what makes it sort of strange".
[See the photos at iGNANT]
Religious War Left This Philippine City Uninhabitable
In the process of investigating whether the Philippines was becoming a new base for ISIS, Smith and Elbein documented the messy aftermath of every modern war: refugees displaced by the fighting, injured soldiers, mass graves, and the arduous process of clearing improvised explosive devices (IEDs), unexploded bombs, and rubble.
[See the photos at Mother Jones]
Winners Of Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2018
He was photographing a pride of lions when this lioness wandered off. Anticipating it was going for a drink, he positioned himself by the nearest waterhole. It then appeared through the long grass, framed by a wall of lush green.
[See the photos at National History Museum]
