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From assignment to the Smithsonian: Nearly three decades ago, a community news photographer was told to shoot two up-and-coming kid tennis players. Fourteen images taken that day of a 12-year-old Venus Williams and her kid sister Serena, 10, being trained by their father, Richard, are now part of a collection at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Rod Lyons is grateful he had the opportunity to take the images, which cover a period featured in the just-released film King Richard. But he’s also a bit rueful. “Had I only known what these two little girls were going to become,” he told Smithsonian. See the images.
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Need a laugh? These prize-winners from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards might make your day. The images include a young elephant taking a mud bath and a blowing leaf that caught on the face of the pigeon. See the rest.
Flavors of fervor: For years, photographer Mathieu Richer Mamousse captured religious pilgrammages, from usual places like Lourdes, France, to Spain, Bulgaria, and Haiti. Take a look at his images.
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