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Yesterday was five years since the deaths of basketball legend Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna. @people shares photos of some of the memorials and events that took place to honor them.

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#KobeBryant #GiannaBryant #Basketball #Sports #RIP #InMemoriam #Murals #Photography

Rich Hein may not be a familiar name to all photographers, but the former Chicago Sun-Times photo editor, who died on Sunday, was a legend to former colleagues. He was also beloved by the city's theatrical community, for which he shot publicity stills. Here's a tribute to him from the paper where he worked for 40 years, plus a few of his outstanding shots.

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#Photography #Photographers #RichHein #Theater #InMemoriam #RIP

When Ghanaian photojournalist Paul Ninson came to study in New York five years ago, he found images of life in Africa in libraries, galleries and museums across the city. That gave him the idea to create a library of photo books in Ghana to help people learn their own stories. He established the Dikan Center in Accra, which celebrated its second anniversary a few weeks ago and now has more than 30,000 volumes. @npr talked to him about his motivation and how he got into photography.

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#Photography #Photos #Africa #PhotoBooks #Ghana #Libraries

Here's a gorgeous @[email protected] Storyboard from @[email protected], who has curated stories about what happens when photographers mix new technologies and alternative processes. "Cyanotype, photograms, silver print and anthotype carry the allure of the handmade and precious," he writes.

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#Photography #Photographers #DigitalPhotography #PhotographyTechniques

Vital Impacts is a non-profit focused on conservation through storytelling by visual journalists — photographers document the world's biodiversity and endangered species. Here are some of the photos taken by their journalists, from an image of a black rhino in Kenya to a picture of a polar bear swimming in arctic waters.

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#Photography #Conservation #Biodiversity #Photojournalism

@AssociatedPress photographers are bearing witness to the devastation caused by fires ripping through Los Angeles and its surrounding areas. Here are some of the images they captured: Neighborhoods recognizable from above only by the outlines of the streets, charred timbers and rubble, and plumes of smoke everywhere.

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#Photography #Photos #News #Photojournalism #LosAngelesFires #LAFires

To celebrate St. Nicholas Day in December, volunteers in Kharkov, Ukraine, arranged a show for 50 children, part of which was a musical performance with a soap bubble generator. Pulitzer Prize-winning @AssociatedPress photographer Evgeny Maloletka was there to capture the moment. "Sometimes we take photos instinctively, knowing that a good photo might come out," he writes. "Children are the flowers of life. They are happy in spite of the horror they experience, living next to the front line. There is joy in their eyes, and pain in their hearts. They cannot yet fully understand what is happening to them, but they are clearly older than other children who have not seen war."

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#Photography #Photos #Ukraine #UkraineWar #Culture

To celebrate St. Nicholas Day in December, volunteers in Kharkov, Ukraine, arranged a show for 50 children, part of which was a musical performance with a soap bubble generator. Pulitzer Prize-winning @AssociatedPress photographer was there to capture the moment. "Sometimes we take photos instinctively, knowing that a good photo might come out," he writes. "Children are the flowers of life. They are happy in spite of the horror they experience, living next to the front line. There is joy in their eyes, and pain in their hearts. They cannot yet fully understand what is happening to them, but they are clearly older than other children who have not seen war."

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#Photography #Photos #Ukraine #UkraineWar #Culture

Photographer Doris Ulmann is remembered for her work in Appalachia during the Great Depression, where she shot folks who ordinarily wouldn't have the opportunity to sit for a portrait. JSTOR shares some images.

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#Photography #Portraits #Culture #DorisUlmann

Five years ago, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was nearly destroyed by fire. Today, photographers from @AssociatedPress got a peek inside to see the rebuilt interior, with soaring ceilings, new stonework, giant oak beams and vibrant stained glass windows. Here are some of the breathtaking images they took, plus details on the intricate work of the laborers who restored Notre Dame. President Emmanuel Macron thanked hundreds of workers gathered inside the cathedral at the end of his tour. “The shock of the reopening will, I want to believe, be as powerful as the one of the fire. But it will be a shock of hope,” he said. “The inferno of Notre Dame was a wound for the nation. And you were its remedy.”

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#Photography #NotreDame #Paris #France #Architecture #Buildings #EmmanuelMacron

Photographer Ernest Cole's seminal work was "House of Bondage," an exposé of apartheid in his home country of South Africa. Cole left the country for the U.S. before the book was even published in 1967 (it was immediately banned and he was stripped of his citizenship). He went on to take tens of thousands of photos in New York and the Jim Crow South, but work dried up, and he spend times living on the same streets he had photographed, before dying of pancreatic cancer at 49. Most of his U.S. work has never been seen until now, with the release of a new documentary, "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found." CNN talked to its director, Raoul Peck, about the making of the movie and the parallels Cole saw between South Africa under apartheid and the segregated South.

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#Photography #Photos #ErnestCole #SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Segregation @Blackmastodon #Film #Cinema #Documentary

The past 12 months have been filled with drama, turmoil, triumph and joy, and photographers have captured it all. @time sees a through-line in the images it's curated for its top 100 photos of the year feature. "A tautness runs through the collection — the tension of conflict, the anxiety over outcome, anticipation of excitement or in possibility. Somehow, these photographers are able to capture that coiled feeling and hold it within the four walls of a frame. Be it by impeccable timing or intentional framing, they have created a time capsule that feels as if it’s about to be opened," write the team. Here are all the photos, from Evan Gershkovich walking towards the friends and colleagues who are greeting him after his year in captivity to Donald Trump, seconds after the assassination attempt in Butler, Pa.

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#Photography #Photos #News #WorldNews #TimeMagazine #Journalism #Photojournalism