Photojournalism Daily: Dec. 18, 2014

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A boy on a baseball field in Tera Kora, Curacao.
The New York Times: An Unlikely Source of Big TalentA boy on a baseball field in Tera Kora, Curacao, Dec. 10, 2014. Despite —or perhaps because of—the rough fields, the tiny island near Venezuela has become a source for numerous major league baseball stars.Melissa Lyttle—The New York Times/Redux
By Mikko Takkunen

Today’s daily Photojournalism Links collection highlights Melissa Lyttle‘s work from the tiny southern Caribbean island of Curaçao, which has become an unlikely breeding ground of major league baseball players. The autonomous territory, which is linked to the Netherlands, is twice the size of Brooklyn, and has a population of 150,000. But in baseball, it’s a giant: in 2014 alone, it had seven players in the MLB, making Curaçao the land with the most major leaguers per capita in the world this last season. One of them, Didi Grigious, is likely to succeed Yankees legend Derek Jeter as the team’s new shortstop. Lyttle’s photographs capture a fascinating glimpse of the island; its notoriously rocky fields and future talent.

Melissa Lyttle: An Unlikely Source of Big Talent (The New York Times)

Lynn Johnson: The First Year (National Geographic) These compelling photographs document children’s early development.

Julian Röder: Mission and Task (Wired Rawfile) These pictures capture the officers and equipment that European Union uses to guard its borders.

Top 100 Photos of 2014 (TIME LightBox)

2014 Photos of the Year (Mashable)

A boy on a baseball field in Tera Kora, Curacao.
The New York Times: An Unlikely Source of Big TalentA boy on a baseball field in Tera Kora, Curacao, Dec. 10, 2014. Despite —or perhaps because of—the rough fields, the tiny island near Venezuela has become a source for numerous major league baseball stars. Melissa Lyttle—The New York Times/Redux
From the January issue of National Geographic magazine: The First YearGinny Mooney comforts her adopted daughter, Lena, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, after physical and speech therapy. The six-year-old has behavioral and cognitive deficits, partly from neglect in a Ukrainian orphanage. She is swaddled for her comfort.Lynn Johnson—National Geographic
Mission and Task
Wired Rawfile: Mission and TaskBorder between Spain and Morocco in the Spanish enclave of Melilla. June, 2012. Julian Röder—OSTKREUZ
TIME LightBox: Top 100 Photos of 2014The funeral of Avraham Walz, 29, killed in an attack earlier that day by a Palestinian in a stolen digger in Jerusalem Aug. 5, 2014.
TIME LightBox: Top 100 Photos of 2014The funeral of Avraham Walz, 29, killed in an attack earlier that day by a Palestinian in a stolen digger in Jerusalem Aug. 5, 2014.Peter van Agtmael—Magnum
Mashable: 2014 Photos of the YearAnti-government demonstrators take cover from a police water cannon in Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 28, 2014.
Mashable: 2014 Photos of the YearAnti-government demonstrators take cover from a police water cannon in Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 28, 2014. Rodrigo Abd—AP

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