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Some of The Best Photojournalism Online Is on the Pulitzer Center’s Instagram Account. Check It Out!

Some of The Best Photojournalism Online Is on the Pulitzer Center’s Instagram Account. Check It Out!

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Published on April 3, 2018
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If you appreciate high-quality, story-telling photojournalism that sheds light on issues that too often go ignored, you should check out the Pulitzer Center’s Instagram feed.  The feed is run by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a Washington, DC-based organization dedicated to award-winning non-profit journalism.

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The Pulitzer Center sponsors international journalism projects across all media platforms and offers outreach and education programming to schools and universities. They spend nearly $2 million a year to directly support journalists, including writers and photographers, and have partnered with the New York Times, NPR, Time Magazine, National Geographic and other media outlets.

You can check out some of the many current projects at the Pulitzer Center’s web site. But if you want to simply see great photojournalism, go directly to their Instagram feed. Below, a few examples.

 

Image by Larry C. Price (@larrycprice). Burkina Faso, 2013. A young boy near the end of his shift at the Fandjora gold mine. After the famines in Burkina Faso forced families off their farms in the 1980s, artisanal or small-scale mining took root. It has now become the nation’s third largest export. Although child labor is illegal in the country, leaders and entrepreneurs, eager to tap the vast reserves, often look the other way while young mine workers risk long-term health problems caused by exposure to dust, toxic chemicals, and heavy metals. ● ● ● The Pulitzer Center is launching a new initiative in support of our photojournalism projects. With a donation to the Pulitzer Center of $1,000 or more, donors can select one print from the series of Pulitzer Center supported projects above. You can help us support more projects like these AND $250 of your donation will go to the photographer whose image you select. Visit the link in our bio to learn more.

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Image by Lynsey Addario (@lynseyaddario) — Verbatim for @time. | Two days after giving birth, Illham returned to a refugee camp with baby Faraj. We thought Illham, a Syrian refugee, would be sad to leave a clean hospital room for life in a camp. But that day, the 23-year-old was smiling. Illham couldn’t wait to see her girlfriends in the camp and introduce them to the new member of the family. ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ Head over to @findinghome, where @arynebaker, @francescatrianni and @lynseyaddario have been following the journey of three Syrian refugee babies and their families as they seek a new home in Europe, with thanks to @merckformothers and @pulitzercenter. This year Finding Home will be exhibited at @photovillenyc from September 13-24.

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Image by Nathalie Bertrams, @nathaliebertrams. Malawi, 2017. | Malawi is one of the most affected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with 13,000 deaths directly attributed to smoke, as more than 98 percent of 17 million Malawians rely on traditional biomass for cooking. An estimated 50,000 hectares of forest are lost every year to provide wood fuel and charcoal. As in other parts of Africa, governments and NGOs build their hopes on improved, more energy efficient cookstoves. But why does implementation seem so difficult? • • • Women cooking over open fire in Pitala, Malawi. Cooking smoke or ‘household air pollution’ is linked to strokes, ischemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other ailments, and claims the lives of over 4.3 million people worldwide every year – more than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS combined. Co-author Ingrid Gercama, @anthro.vision.

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Image by James Whitlow Delano, @jameswhitlowdelano. Mexico, 2017. | Young boys from the Arias family peer over the first, older US-built border wall at dusk into the flood-lit no-man’s land created between the two walls/fences where US Border Patrol is present 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Colonia Libertad, Tijuana, Mexico. The Arias family is led by Estel, these boys’ grandmother and matriarch of the clan. Their house actually rests up against the border wall and yet the family expressed no fear from human or drug traffickers. Still their home, despite being millimeters from the world’s superpower, lacks running water, necessitates an outhouse and they’ve had to illegally tap into the power grid because they cannot afford to pay for electricity. ● ● ● I happened upon their home on a previous reporting trip, one month ago, and was struck by strength of this family living in extreme poverty, through tutelage of the family matriarch. The family not only worries what a new, bigger wall might mean but also they spoke about a plan to build a highway connecting the airport to their east with the main port of entry at San Ysidro, to the west right next to this wall.

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