Qingming Festival, Tomb Sweeping Day
The Qingming Festival, also know as Tomb Sweeping Day, was held earlier this week marked by people visiting cemeteries to clean tombs, lay flowers, and make offerings to the deceased.…
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Photos of the Week: 4/2-4/8
International Pillow Fight Day, Panamanian reflections, the self-defense army of Nagorno-Karabakh, a hedgehog cafe in Tokyo, calf-swimming in Lebanon, and much more. Source: Photos of the Week: 4/2-4/8 – The Atlantic
In Defense of Steve McCurry
New York Times Magazine photography critic, Teju Cole, recently penned what could only be construed as a takedown of National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. Source: In Defense of Steve McCurry
What It’s Like to Chase Storms Through the Great Plains in an Ambulance
Source: What It’s Like to Chase Storms Through the Great Plains in an Ambulance – Resource Magazine
Cubans React to President Obama’s Visit
Following President Barack Obama’s historic trip to Cuba in March, Reuters photographer Ueslei Marcelino set up his camera on the streets of Havana and asked passing residents what they thought of…
The Masks We Wear
We wear masks for many reasons: for fun, for protection, or to make a statement. Source: The Masks We Wear – The Atlantic
In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing
As our relationship with photography shifts, will desktop-based photo-editing programs like the Google Nik Collection go the way of the film camera? Source: In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything…
How NASA turns astronauts into photographers
Certain astronauts develop more of an affinity for photography than others. Now-retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly became Twitter-famous with his sweeping views of Earth during his nearly year in space.…
Still Cleaning Up: 30 Years After the Chernobyl Disaster
Recent images of the ongoing cleanup work and the ghost towns being reclaimed by nature within the 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometers) exclusion zone in Ukraine. Source: Still Cleaning Up: 30 Years After the Chernobyl…
Photos of the Week: 3/26-4/1
Office chair street racing in Japan, protests across France, the ruins of Palmyra in Syria, Bactrian camel racing in Mongolia, President Obama reads from “Where the Wild Things Are,” and much…