Photojournalism Links Daily Digest: Sept. 24, 2014

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Today’s daily Photojournalism Links collection highlights Matt Black’s timeless black-and-white photographs from California’s Central Valley and the effects of the ongoing drought there. The photographer, who grew up in the valley, has documented the region and its rural communities for over two decades and this latest portfolio in The New Yorker only adds to his already remarkable body of work.


Matt Black: Dry Land (The New Yorker) See also the video made with photographer Ed Kashi, titled California: Paradise Burning | An exhibition of Black’s work ‘From Clouds to Dust’ is on at Anastasia Photo in New York through Oct 19.

Adriana Zehbrauskas: For Migrants, a Difficult Journey Through Mexico (The New York Times) Photographs of Central American migrants on their desperate travel towards the United States.

Andrew McConnell: Injured Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Adjust to Life With Prosthetics (Time.com) Compelling portraits of wounded Syrian refugees by the Beirut based photographer.

It Takes a Village of Photographers in Brooklyn (The New York Times Lens blog) The best of this year’s Photoville, which is still on until the end of the week.

Stephen Shore Looks for Everyday Color in Conflict Zones (American Photo) Eugene Reznik writes about the photographer’s two recent bodies of work, currently on display at 303 Gallery in New York from Sept. 11 – Nov. 1.

Davide Monteleone’s Spasibo (The Guardian) Guardian’s former Moscow correspondent writes about Monteleone’s poetic Chechnya work, which will be on display at Saatchi Gallery in London starting October 11.

Matthew Niederhauser (Verve Photo) The Beijing-based photographer writes about a portrait he took of the artist Ai Weiwei.


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.


Fallow fields near the town of Corcoran are among hundreds of thousands of acres going unplanted across the state.Matt Black
Eight-year-old Carlos Alberto Cruz Menjivar, left, who is traveling with his father, and others wait for the next train heading north, in Tierra Blanca, Mexico, Sept. 18, 2014.
Eight-year-old Carlos Alberto Cruz Menjivar, left, who is traveling with his father, and others wait for the next train heading north, in Tierra Blanca, Mexico, Sept. 18, 2014. Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times
Fatima, 15, at an informal settlement near Tripoli, Lebanon, June 24, 2014. She was going to Homs in 2011 with her father and brother when a bomb fell. She was depressed after receiving an ill-fitting prosthetic but later got a better one.
Fatima, 15, at an informal settlement near Tripoli, Lebanon, June 24, 2014. She was going to Homs in 2011 with her father and brother when a bomb fell. She was depressed after receiving an ill-fitting prosthetic but later got a better one.Andrew McConnell—UNHCR

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