Don’t forget to join us at Right Proper Brewing in Shaw next Tuesday evening for our February Happy Hour! Until then, chug down this week’s 12-pack of links:
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The New York Times has launched an ambitious online project, Unpublished Black History, to which they will be adding unpublished photos from their archives daily through February.
- Yahoo! is laying off 15% of its workforce, which means Flickr is being scaled back so that it can operate with minimal oversight.
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Enjoy the winners of National Geographic’s photography competition for kids. The international and U.S. competitions attracted nearly 18,000 entries, displaying a child’s perspective of the world.
- Despite their current situation, children who have fled the conflict in Syria dream of what the future holds for them, and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) sent photographer Meredith Hutchison to find out.
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This month, the New York Public Library announced the release of thousands of documents, including some well-known, historical photographs, that the public is free to use or display.
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You may have heard about the Angulo brothers when the Sundance prize-winning documentary The Wolfpack came out last year. Now photographer Dan Martensen’s new book, Wolves Like Us, shows the six Angulo brothers in portraits, documenting the 14 years they spent in their Lower East Side apartment, where an authoritarian father kept them hidden along with their mother and sister. They learned about the outside world largely by watching movies, which they imaginatively recreated with their own homemade sets, props, and costumes.
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Palani Mohan traveled to the barren and frigid Altai mountains of western Mongolia to document the few remaining burkitshi — Kazakh men who hunt on horseback with golden eagles. (You might remember the 13-year-old Kazakh girl learning to hunt with her eagle, which we linked to in 2014.)
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This seaside town in Italy’s deep south has long been a hotbed for the Calabrian mafia, which uses threats and violence to extort virtually every businessman, from the pizzerias to the fishmongers. But the 12 young women of the Sporting Locri soccer club refused to cave in to fear when the club president said he received threats from the mob to shut down the club or else.
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Compare then and now images in this gallery by Guardian photographer David Levene, who traveled across the San Francisco Bay Area photographing the sites that transformed one of the great cities of the world.
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For a little over $800,000 you can snap up a former nuclear bunker in Northern Ireland that was a state secret until 2007. The facility sleeps 236 and includes double blast doors and decontamination chambers.
- Pyotr Pankratau was a soldier in the Belarussian army when he rescued a weak baby squirrel on the verge of death. Two years later, Pankratau is now a taxi-driver, but the squirrel never leaves his side.
- Wee Wee the pig now has his own Facebook page.