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 Future For Fish
Wolf Silveri usually photographs people. His stark and dramatically lit portraits are personal and emphasize humanity. Typically, he says his goal is to “catch a look that is real.” But after visiting a fish market, he had a different idea. While waiting at the market, he started to ask himself which fish would still be there in the decades to come.
The Oldest Workers In Tokyo
These bartenders, sushi chefs and sweetshop owners are still working in their 80s and 90s, running family businesses and maintaining traditional crafts as the city changes around them[.
The Abstracted Landscapes Of Iceland And Botswana
The New York-based artist travels to a wide range of landscapes, and flies above them in small airplanes to provide a zoomed-out perspective. His abstracted images simultaneously show the unique beauty of each location’s topography, while also highlighting the continuity of our shared planet.
High-Altitude Drone Captures Rare View Of Mount Everest
Using a drone modified to fly in thin air, photographer Renan Ozturk captured a stunning 360-degree panorama of the roof of the world.
What Miami Looked Like In The ’80s And ’90s
“Miami is exotic. There’s an otherness to the city.”
Tunnels Of Light
Living between London and Chicago, his love for the urban environment is on full display in his photos. Known for his symmetrical and geometric compositions, Shinobi’s Light Railing series uses long exposures to transform cities into soft, abstract spaces.
An Inward Gaze
Native New Yorker Arielle Bobb-Willis uses the camera as a tool of empowerment, something taken on at a young age to battle the tortuous grip of depression. Here, she stages scenes that evoke the dreamscape, an irrational interior world filled with complex emotional struggles that manifest in fascinatingly familiar distortions of form, rendering an invisible energy into actual being.
The Life And Viral Fame Of Virginia’s Two-Headed Snake
Late last summer in Woodbridge, Virginia, a woman wandered into her yard and found an eastern copperhead slithering through her flower bed. That’s not so unusual where she lives, as the region is home to a plethora of ophidians, from harmless corn snakes to venomous rattlers. But this one was different: It had two heads.
The Winners Of The National Geographic Travel Photo Contest Are Breathtaking
From actors preparing for a Chinese opera performance to a beautiful fishing village in west Greenland, here are the winning images from this year’s National Geographic contest.
First, here’s “Greenlandic Winter,” a photo by Weimin Chu that won the Grand Prize of the competition. Chu’s photo captures the serenity and austere beauty of Upernavik, a small fishing village in northwestern Greenland.
For a very different view of human communities, here’s “Streets of Dhaka,” a photo by Sandipani Chattopadhyay that shows how crowded the streets in Dhaka get during Bishwa Ijtema, an annual Muslim congregation held in Bangladesh.
This photo from Jassen Todorov offers us a rare view of San Francisco’s International Airport, which, according to Todorov, was taken during a windy day and a very bumpy flight.
In first place in the “Nature” category, enjoy this splendid close-up of a griffon vulture in flight by Tamara Blazquez Haik.
The sheer elegance of nature and its many beasts is also on display in Scott Portelli’s photo of the dusky dolphins of New Zealand swimming in the ocean.
And finally, in the “People” category, here are some stunning photos, including the aptly-named “Mood,” a photo by Navin Vatsa of a boy in Delhi, India musing by the riverbank as thousands of seagulls fly behind him.
And “Showtime,” a backstage photo by Huaifeng Li of performers preparing for a Chinese opera performance. “Showtime” won first place in the “People” category.
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