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Greece fires: The images from the wildfires are shocking, but they are unlikely to lead to changing conditions for the boom in fires, Pulitzer-winning critic Philip Kennicott writes. Kennicott focused on a Konstantinos Tsakalidis image “that works on every level”—a portrait of an elderly woman on the burning island of Evia. “With a wildfire consuming a forest behind her, she stands before the world like a wailing chorus member from a tragedy by Aeschylus or Sophocles,” Kennicott writes for the Washington Post. See it.
It’s award season: Alessandro Gandolfi took the National Press Photographers Association award for best environment story on how climate change affects Italian agriculture. Monique Jacques took second place for photographs on illegal logging and trafficking, published in Nat Geo. National Geographic also won first and second honors for magazine covers.
Hot potatoes: Speaking of awards, who knew that the Potato Photographer of the Year had announced its winners? The contest, encouraging photographers to use potatoes to get their creative juices flowing, celebrates the trusty spud. See the first place “Fish & Chips” and all the other winners in the Guardian.
Not-so-novel coronavirus: How do you portray a world where some nations have two-thirds of their population vaccinated while for a whole continent, Africa, availability is a dream and vaccination rates are only 2 percent? That’s the premise of this haunting series of photos presented by the Washington Post.
Note: The National Geographic Society COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists is supporting new reporting worldwide on the pandemic. Among the projects: Bethany Mollenkof’s photo essay documenting her own journey as a first-time mom navigating prenatal appointments, social distancing, and COVID-19 as a Black woman. Mollenkof’s work is part of an exhibition running until Sept. 12 in Empire Fulton Lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park, presented by Photoville and Women Photograph.
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