Photojournalism Daily: Dec. 16, 2014

AFRICA’S FIRST CITY PERMITTED USE: This image may be downloaded or is otherwise provided at no charge for one-time use for coverage or promotion of National Geographic magazine dated January 2015 and exclusively in conjunction thereof.  No copying, distribution or archiving permitted.  Sublicensing, sale or resale is prohibited.     REQUIRED CREDIT AND CAPTION: All image uses must bear the copyright notice and be properly credited to the relevant photographer, as shown in this metadata, and must be accompanied by a caption, which makes reference to NGM.  Any uses in which the image appears without proper copyright notice, photographer credit and a caption referencing NGM are subject to paid licensing.        Mandatory usage requirements: (Please note: you may select 5 branded images for online use and 3 images for print/unbranded)1. Include mandatory photo credit with each image: © Robin Hammond/National Geographic2. Show the December cover of National Geographic somewhere in the post (credit: National Geographic) unless using only one image3. Provide a prominent link to: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/lagos/hammond-photographyat the top of your piece, ahead of the photos 4. Mention that the images are from "the January issue of National Geographic magazine” Photograph by Robin HammondThousands live and work in the sawmill district on mainland Lagos, a patchwork of workshops and shanties that twice in recent years has been devastated by fires. The towers where Nigeria’s wealth is made loom across Lagos Lagoon behind the Third Mainland Bridge.
From the January issue of National Geographic magazine: Africa's First CityThousands live and work in the sawmill district on mainland Lagos, a patchwork of workshops and shanties that twice in recent years has been devastated by fires. The towers where Nigeria’s wealth is made loom across Lagos Lagoon behind the Third Mainland Bridge.Robin Hammond—National Geographic
By TIME Staff

Today’s daily Photojournalism Links collection highlights Robin Hammond‘s portrait of Lagos, Nigeria, where the booming economy is widening the wealth gap. Lagos is the largest commercial hub in Nigeria, which hosts Africa’s largest economy, and has become one of the continent’s great success stories. But not everyone has benefitted the same way. Hammond’s excellent photographs, made on assignment for National Geographic, take us from the exclusive clubs and gated communities of the rich to the squalid shanty towns and decayed housing complexes of the poor. The juxtaposition of impoverished and prosperous in this series is both jarring and stunning.

Robin Hammond: Africa’s First City (National Geographic)

Siegfried Modola: Rites of Womanhood (Reuters) These photographs document an arranged marriage in a Kenyan Pokot community.

Tomas Munita: Preserving Historic Yangon (The New York Times) The colonial-era buildings in Myanmar’s largest city have fallen into disrepair.

Steve Schapiro: The Long Road (The New Yorker) Compelling photographs from the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march.

The War Over the US Government’s Unreleased Torture Pictures (Wired) Interview with photography critic David Levi Strauss.

AFRICA’S FIRST CITY PERMITTED USE: This image may be downloaded or is otherwise provided at no charge for one-time use for coverage or promotion of National Geographic magazine dated January 2015 and exclusively in conjunction thereof.  No copying, distribution or archiving permitted.  Sublicensing, sale or resale is prohibited.     REQUIRED CREDIT AND CAPTION: All image uses must bear the copyright notice and be properly credited to the relevant photographer, as shown in this metadata, and must be accompanied by a caption, which makes reference to NGM.  Any uses in which the image appears without proper copyright notice, photographer credit and a caption referencing NGM are subject to paid licensing.        Mandatory usage requirements: (Please note: you may select 5 branded images for online use and 3 images for print/unbranded)1. Include mandatory photo credit with each image: © Robin Hammond/National Geographic2. Show the December cover of National Geographic somewhere in the post (credit: National Geographic) unless using only one image3. Provide a prominent link to: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/lagos/hammond-photographyat the top of your piece, ahead of the photos 4. Mention that the images are from "the January issue of National Geographic magazine” Photograph by Robin HammondThousands live and work in the sawmill district on mainland Lagos, a patchwork of workshops and shanties that twice in recent years has been devastated by fires. The towers where Nigeria’s wealth is made loom across Lagos Lagoon behind the Third Mainland Bridge.
From the January issue of National Geographic magazine: Africa's First CityThousands live and work in the sawmill district on mainland Lagos, a patchwork of workshops and shanties that twice in recent years has been devastated by fires. The towers where Nigeria’s wealth is made loom across Lagos Lagoon behind the Third Mainland Bridge.Robin Hammond—National Geographic
A man holds a girl as she tries to escape when she realised she is to to be married, about 80 km (50 miles) from the town of Marigat in Baringo County
Reuters: Rites of WomanhoodA man holds a girl as she tries to escape when she realized she is to to be married, about 50 miles from the town of Marigat in Baringo County, Kenya. Dec. 7, 2014. Siegfried Modola—Reuters
A man removes a rested water pipe from the exterior of the Sofaer building, one of many decrepit structures from the British colonial era in Yangon, Myanmar.
The New York Times: Preserving Ancient YangonA man removes a rested water pipe from the exterior of the Sofaer building, one of many decrepit structures from the British colonial era in Yangon, Myanmar, Oct. 23, 2014. Tomas Munita—The New York Times/Redux

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