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By HL fotoeins on 24 Jan 2014

The following photographic essays, including various “best of 2013” series, help kick off the new year.

54 Reasons Why There’s Love for Photography

Photoshelter CEO and photographer Allen Murabayashi wrote an essay describing why he loves and continues to love photography. He lists 54 reasons, and they’re all plenty good to last you a good chunk of time.

Goodbye, Madiba (Two)

We said goodbye to Nelson Mandela who died on 5 December 2013 at the age of 95. Two examples of photo-essays highlighting his long eventful life are from The Atlantic’s In Focus and from Slate’s Behold; both offer

… an in-depth examination of photography in South Africa from apartheid’s adoption as official policy in 1948 until 1994, when the election of Nelson Mandela as president ended the country’s system of racial segregation.

One of his legacies has to be “the struggle and striving for peace through perseverance, unity, and forgiveness.”

Simple and Creative iPhone-ography

Minneapolis artist Brock Davis produces iPhone photography of constructed scenes using everyday objects. They’re wonderfully simple, and they’ll make you wonder why anyone didn’t think of that before. Check out his profile and photos on My Modern Metropolis, and previously from 2012.

50 States of Lego

Based in Nova Scotia, artist and photographer Jeff Friesen constructed small dioramas of each U.S. state, made entirely of LEGO pieces. He’s also done the same to Canada’s provinces & territories. Also, read Friesen’s interview by Phoblographer here.

The 2013 Year in Review

Given the ubiquity of year-end essays and reviews, I’ll share these four:

* The Big Picture on Boston Globe,
* In Focus, on The Atlantic,
* National Geographic, and
* New York Times’ Sunday Review: The Year In Pictures,

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