Photojournalism Daily: Dec. 9, 2014

December 9, 2014 3:59 AM EST

Today’s daily Photojournalism Links collection highlights Benjamin Lowy‘s photographs from one of the world’s most prestigious show-jumping competitions, Masters Grand Slam Indoor, which held its inaugural American edition in the City of Angels in September. The work is a fascinating look at the event that drew horses from around the world – some 50 were flown in from Europe – and where the VIP stands were full of champagne-sipping and caviar-eating celebrities (Note: The pictures that capture the horses before their long-haul Transatlantic flight, were taken by Maciek Nabrdalik).

Benjamin Lowy: Flying Horses Don’t Come Cheap (ESPN)

Minzayar: China’s Expanding Middle Class Fuels Poaching, Decadence in Myanmar (National Geographic News) These photographs show how endangered animals are being sold as aphrodisiacs, traditional medicines, and gastronomic delicacies in a remote Burmese city.

Top 10 Photos of 2014 (TIME LightBox) The most influential photos of the year as selected by the magazine’s photo editors.

New Photobooks (The New York Times Book Review) Luc Sante reviews some new photobooks for the holiday season, including ones on the works of Vivian Maier, Paul Strand, Henri-Cartier Bresson, and Eugene Richards.

John Moore on covering the Ebola epidemic in Liberia (Getty Images) Insightful and moving video about the Getty photographer’s Ebola coverage.

LIFE Photographer Ralph Morse Dies at 97 (LIFE.com)

ESPN Magazine, LA Masters, Horse Jumping — ESPN: *Flying Horses Don't Come Cheap*Rider warms up her horse at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Sept. 24, 2014.Benjamin Lowy—Reportage by Getty for ESPN

A wildlife animal product shop in the market of Mong La, Shan State, Myanmar, October 14, 2014. ( Photograph by Minzayar ) — National Geographic News: *China's Expanding Middle Class Fuels Poaching, Decadence in Myanmar*Vendors hawk animal wares, including a bull's head for decoration, in a market stall in Mong La. In this shop and others, customers can buy porcupine quills, tiger claws and penises, horns from deer and mountain goats, and other items from wild and often endangered species for use in traditional Chinese medicine.Minzayar—National Geographic

**TIME LightBox: Top 10 Photos of 2014**Riot police keep a fire hose aimed at protesters continuously during rioting on Hrushevskoho Street in central Kiev, Ukraine, Jan. 25, 2014.Ross McDonnell

CHINA. 1948-1949. — **The New York *Times* Book Review: New Photobooks**Shanghai. 1948-1949, from *Henri Cartier-Bresson: Here and Now (Thames & Hudson)*Henri Cartier-Bresson—Magnum

Liberia Races To Expand Ebola Treatment Facilities, As U.S. Troops Arrive — **Getty Images: John Moore on covering the Ebola epidemic in Liberia**A woman crawls towards the body of her sister as Ebola burial team members take her for cremation on Oct. 10, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. John Moore—Getty Images

**LIFE.com: LIFE Photographer Ralph Morse Dies at 97**Tourists looking out from the Statue of Liberty Crown, 1947.Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

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