Photojournalism Daily: Dec. 8, 2014

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CHICAGO, IL. USA. September 2014Chicago police officers look for evidence after four people were hit as they stood in the parking lot of a Pizza Hut at 67th Street and Stony Island Avenue around 10:40 p.m. Monday Aug 25. A 16-year-old girl was shot in the thigh; a woman, 22, was wounded in the neck; another woman, 18, suffered a graze wound to the stomach; and a man, 26, was shot in the leg. Nobody died from their injuries ( Photo by Carlos Javier Ortiz)
Al Jazeera America: 30 Shootings in 3 DaysChicago police officers look for evidence after four people were hit as they stood in the parking lot of a Pizza Hut at 67th Street and Stony Island Avenue, Aug. 25, in Chicago.Carlos Javier Ortiz for Al Jazeera America
By Mikko Takkunen

Today’s daily Photojournalism Links collection highlights Carlos Javier Ortiz‘s work on gun violence in Chicago. While violent crime has fallen nationally, progress has proven difficult in the Windy City, with more than a murder a day on average this year. The number of shooting incidents has actually increased and minority communities continue to be disproportionally affected. Ortiz has covered the gun violence in his native city for nearly a decade and recently published a book on the subject, called We All We Got. These latest photographs, taken on assignment for Al Jazeera America, are a devastating testimony on this modern-day plague.

Carlos Javier Ortiz: 30 shootings in 3 days (Al Jazeera America)

Don Bartletti: Product of Mexico (The Los Angeles Times Framework) Powerful photographs on the hard work and deplorable living conditions of some of Mexico’s farm workers. | See also the entire article.

Robert Frank’s Photos of America Still Feel As Poignant As They Did 60 Years Ago (Mother Jones) A new exhibit at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center shows more than 100 of more or less unknown of the Swiss master’s photographs from the 1950s, along with 22 from The Americans. A catalogue of the show is printed by Steidl under the title Robert Frank in America.

Arthur Leipzig, Photographer of Everyday Life in New York, Dies at 96 (The New York Times)

Stephen Crowley (Photo District News) Straight-talking interview with the New York Times‘ politics photographer.

CHICAGO, IL. USA. September 2014Chicago police officers look for evidence after four people were hit as they stood in the parking lot of a Pizza Hut at 67th Street and Stony Island Avenue around 10:40 p.m. Monday Aug 25. A 16-year-old girl was shot in the thigh; a woman, 22, was wounded in the neck; another woman, 18, suffered a graze wound to the stomach; and a man, 26, was shot in the leg. Nobody died from their injuries ( Photo by Carlos Javier Ortiz)
Al Jazeera America: 30 Shootings in 3 DaysChicago police officers look for evidence after four people were hit as they stood in the parking lot of a Pizza Hut at 67th Street and Stony Island Avenue, Aug. 25, in Chicago. Carlos Javier Ortiz for Al Jazeera America
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The Los Angeles Times Framework: Product of MexicoWorkers pick fresh basil in a field near Villa Benito Juarez, Sinaloa. The tender leaves are carefully boxed for export to the United States. Don Bartletti—The Los Angeles Times
Main Street, Savannah, Georgia, 1955.
Mother Jones: Robert Frank’s Photos of America Still Feel As Poignant As They Did 60 Years Ago Main Street, Savannah, Georgia, 1955.Robert Frank. Courtesy of Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
The New York Times: Arthur Leipzig, Photographer of Everyday Life in New York, Dies at 96Coney Island, 1943.Estate of Arthur Leipzig, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
The 2012 Democratic National Convention.
Photo District News: What's Your Niche: Stephen Crowley, Political PhotojournalistA President Barack Obama T-shirt for sale outside the Democratic National Convention at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 4, 2012. Stephen Crowley—The New York Times

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