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BEAUTIFUL BROOKLYN

A great photo essay from this week’s Newsweek International.

Photographers Gaia Light and Alessandro Cosmelli moved to Brooklyn from Italy in 2007, immersing themself in the American experience by traveling through the city by bus. In the summer of 2010, inspired by Robert Frank’s From the Bus, New York, the team embarked upon Brooklyn Buzz, a photographic series looking out from the windows of mass transit to embrace a gritty yet vibrant neighborhood, and a renewed expression of the American Dream.

To see more from the series visit NEWSWEEK.

The book, Brooklyn Buzz, is available for purchase through the publisher, Damiani.

Hey, that’s where we live! 

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A Long Walk: Photographs by Shannon Jensen

In this week’s Newsweek International, a poignant and thoughtful look at the refugee journey by Shannon Jenson.

How do you represent a journey in an image? Thirty thousand men, women and children from Sudan’s Blue Nile State sought an end to nine months of terror and trauma when they crossed the border into neighboring South Sudan this past June. They joined a population of 70,000 refugees who preceded them in fleeing Khartoum’s deadly military campaign to crush the northern remnant of the Southern liberation movement.

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Brilliant. 

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How God Watches the Olympics

One of the best things about this year’s Olympic photo coverage is the “God’s eye view.”

1.  The Women’s Basketball quaterfinal August 7, 2012 (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
2.  Jimmy Alexander Lidberg of Sweden in the Men’s 96kg Greco-Roman Quarterfinal  (Photo by Ian Walton/Getty Images)
3. Sajjad Anoushiravani Hamlabad of Iran in the Men’s +105kg Weightlifting final  (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)
4. Turkey vs Russia at the women’s basketball quarter final (Photo ANTONIN THUILLIER/AFP/Getty Images)

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Newsweek News Gallery: August 6th, 2012

1. July 27, 2012, London England. Fireworks go off from the Tower Bridge during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP-Getty Images
2. July 27, 2012, London England. Sarah Attar, one of the first female athletes to compete for Saudi Arabia, enters the stadium. photo: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
3. July 27, 2012, London England. Performers in the role of Mary Poppins float inside the stadium. photo: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

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Lots of good stuff in the iPad issue this week. 

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Into the Woods: Group Show at ClampArt

Into the Woods travels through the terrain where humans and nature meet. The traces of these interactions, ranging from the tenderly coexistent to the bluntly dominant (and the awkward attempts at camouflage in-between), are captured as super-natural landscapes that speak of a complicated reverence for “the wild” today.

Above, a selection of works from the exhibition:

1. Adam Ekberg, A Disco Ball on the Mountain, 2005.
2. Chad States, Untitled (Cruising), 2009.
3. Gregory Halpern, Untitled, 2008.
4. Jesse Burke, Hidden, 2005.
5. Lisa DiLillo, Premonition, 2011.
6. David Nadel, Burn #2, 2008.
7. Robert Voit, from the series New Trees, Haberberg, Griffen, Austria, 2007 & Ventura Harbor, California, USA, 2007.
8. Lisa DiLillo, Before the Echo, 2012.
9. Corey Arnold, The Past, 2011.
10. Collin LaFleche, Robert and Lars, Berlin, Germany, 2009.

Into the Woods is on view now through August 17. For more information, visit clampart.com.

Pretty!