Photojournalism Daily: Dec. 4, 2014

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Peru Ravaged Rainforest Photo Essay
NBC News: Peru's Rainforest Turns to Wasteland From Illegal Gold MiningA column of policemen occupy a gold mining camp as part of an operation to eradicate illegal mining in La Pampa, in Peru's Madre de Dios region, Nov. 20, 2014.Rodrigo Abd—AP
By Mikko Takkunen

Today’s daily Photojournalism Links collection highlights Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd’s work on illegal gold mining in Peru. The pictures are from La Pampa, located in the country’s Madre de Dios region, where mining has turned vast areas of untouched rainforest into a scarred, bare, and poisoned wasteland. The government is now trying to tackle the issue, but as Abd’s stunning monochrome panoramic photographs show us, even if they manage to curb illegal gold mining and halt deforestation, wounds inflicted on the land may never heal.

Rodrigo Abd: Peru’s Rainforest Turns to Wasteland From Illegal Gold Mining (NBC News)

Tim Matsui: Lisa: The Legacy of Human Trafficking (MSNBC) Incredibly intimate look at a young West Coast woman’s battle to leave a life of sex work and addiction. | Related feature film: The Long Night.

Souvid Datta: Documenting Drug Addiction in Kabul (TIME LightBox) A look at Afghanistan’s heroin epidemic through addicts and law-enforcement.

AP Photos of the Year 2014 (The Associated Press Images)

Photographing the Moments Between War and Peace (The New York Times Lens) Another look at James Hill’s new book, Somewhere Between War and Peace.

In other news, the 2015 World Photo Photo Contest is now open for entries.

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.

Peru Ravaged Rainforest Photo Essay
NBC News: Peru's Rainforest Turns to Wasteland From Illegal Gold MiningA column of policemen occupy a gold mining camp as part of an operation to eradicate illegal mining in La Pampa, in Peru's Madre de Dios region, Nov. 20, 2014. Rodrigo Abd—AP
Relatively sober, Lisa visits her mother Windy. The two stay in regular contact but Windy, who works for a doctor treating chemical dependency, knows the heroin will win until Lisa chooses to be sober.
MSNBC: Lisa: The Legacy of Human Trafficking Relatively sober, Lisa visits her mother Windy. The two stay in regular contact but Windy, who works for a doctor treating chemical dependency, knows the heroin will win until Lisa chooses to be sober.Tim Matsui
Beneath the Pul-e Sukhta bridge in Western Kabul a group of Pakistani heroin addicts take refuge from the summer sun, huddled within a tent - smoking, injecting and sleeping in a putrid squalor. Pictured above are Emal, Rahim, Ajmal and Wahid (left to right) who have been sharing a tent for the past two weeks.
TIME LightBox: Documenting Drug Addiction in KabulBeneath the Pul-e Sukhta bridge in Western Kabul a group of Pakistani heroin addicts take refuge from the summer sun on July 26, 2014.Souvid Datta
YE Turkey Syria
Associated Press Images: Photos of the Year 2014Thick smoke and flames from an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition rise in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Oct. 20, 2014. Lefteris Pitarakis—AP
An acrobat at the Old Circus, Moscow, November 1997. Photo by James Hill.
The New York Times Lens: Photographing the Moments Between War and PeaceAn acrobat at the Old Circus, Moscow, 1997. James Hill

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