Photojournalism Daily: Oct. 30, 2014

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Today’s daily Photojournalism Links collection highlights Matt Eich‘s portraits from Ferguson, Missouri. The photographs, made on assignment for Al Jazeera America, are accompanied with the voices of his subjects to create a compelling snapshot of a community still processing the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer.


Matt Eich: Ferguson Portraits (Al Jazeera America)

David Guttenfelder: A look at South Dakota lives balanced on the minimum wage (MSNBC) More photographs in this article | Photographs draw attention to the increasing poverty in South Dakota, especially among Native Americans.

Jordi Pizarro: Disappearing Lands (burn Magazine) Documenting the effects of rising sea levels in Sundarbans, India.

Shomei Tomatsu’s Chewing Gum and Chocolate (The New York Review of Books) A new book on the work by the late Japanese photographer is published by Aperture.

Photojournalist Thurston Hopkins dies at age of 101 (British Journal of Photography) Remembering the British photographer most known for his work documenting Britain after Second World War.

Joao Silva (The Star) The South African war photographer talks about his work on display at MuseumAfrika in Johannesburg.


Photojournalism Links is a compilation of the most interesting photojournalism found on the web, curated by Mikko Takkunen, Associate Photo Editor at TIME. Follow him on Twitter @photojournalism.


Steven Nelson, 51, sits where a window was broken at Red's Original BBQ where he works in Ferguson, Missouri on October 8, 2014.
‘You shot that boy he had his hands up. Justice gotta be done.’ — Steven Nelson, employee, Origin Red’s Barbecue. Ferguson, Missouri, Oct. 8, 2014.Matt Eich for Al Jazeera America
An United States flag is illuminated as a storm breaks over a pasture adjacent to the Lakota Community Homes housing project in Rapid City, South Dakota.
An United States flag is illuminated as a storm breaks over a pasture adjacent to the Lakota Community Homes housing project in Rapid City, South Dakota.David Guttenfelder for MSNBC
People rest after building dikes to stop the rise of sea water in Ghoramara Island, India
People rest after building dikes to stop the rise of sea water in Ghoramara Island, India.Jordi Pizarro

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