Photojournalism Links Daily Digest: Sept. 23, 2014

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A group of volunteers inform residents about Ebola and a lockdown in the Brookfield neighborhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sept. 19, 2014.
A group of volunteers inform residents about Ebola and a lockdown in the Brookfield neighborhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sept. 19, 2014.Samuel Aranda for the New York Times/Redux
By Mikko Takkunen

Today’s daily Photojournalism Links collection highlights Samuel Aranda’s continuing coverage of the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, where the government took the unprecedented measure of ordering a three-days long, nationwide curfew in an attempt to stop the disease from spreading. His photographs capture the desperate efforts of police, military, and tens of thousands of volunteers to educate citizens about the dangers of the virus. Aranda first covered Ebola in Guinea.

Samuel Aranda: Sierra Leone’s Aggressive Attack on Ebola (The New York Times)

Andrea Bruce: A Busy Border in Iraqi Kurdistan (The New York Times) These photographs show that the movement of people on the border between ISIS and Kurdish held territories, somewhat surprisingly, is not just refugees heading north. Many people move back and forth between the two regions, entirely voluntarily, for a variety of reasons.

Lexey Swall: Bakersfield Is the Worst Place to Breathe in the U.S. (Time.com) Photographs document the human cost of living in one of the most polluted cities in the country.

Laura El-Tantawy: In the Shadow of the Pyramids (Project website) A website dedicated to the Egyptian expatriate photographer’s long-term project exploring the country of her heritage. A book will be published in 2015.

Ernest Cole, photographer of apartheid (Al Jazeera America) Carole Naggar writes about one of the first black photojournalists in South Africa to coincide with the exhibition of Cole’s work at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery.

Matt Black (Photo Wings) The photographer, most known for work on rural California, talks eloquently about his craft as well as photography in general.

Keeping True to an Iranian Vision, Minus Big Money (The New York Times Lens blog) Newsha Tavakolian interviewed about her choice to return the prestigious Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award.

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.

A group of volunteers inform residents about Ebola and a lockdown in the Brookfield neighborhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sept. 19, 2014.
A group of volunteers inform residents about Ebola and a lockdown in the Brookfield neighborhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sept. 19, 2014. Samuel Aranda for the New York Times/Redux
Yareli Gonzalez, 7, suffers from asthma and receives two nebulizer treatments per day, indefinitely. Gonzalez lives in Shafter, a rural farming town in Kern County, Calif. Kern County sits at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, an area known for having the worst air in the nation due to dust, smog and high levels of ozone.
Yareli Gonzalez, 7, suffers from asthma and receives two nebulizer treatments per day, indefinitely. Gonzalez lives in Shafter, a rural farming town in Kern County, Calif. Kern County sits at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, an area known for having the worst air in the nation due to dust, smog and high levels of ozone.Lexey Swall—Grain

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