#FotoWeb - Ten Best Photo Links from Last Week

Guinean acrobats, Russian summer camps, family photos and much more in this week’s #FotoWeb.

Every week, we select ten of our favorite links to photographic series published on the web over the previous seven days. We call it #FotoWeb.

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Teen Spirit: Coming of Age in a Former Pioneer Camp

Claudine Doury is an amazing photographer, and these 1994 photos of Russian teenagers in a summer camp are just beautiful. Via The Calvert Journal.

Northern Song

We featured Magnus Astrom in our latest volume of photographers you should follow on Tumblr – this is his series Northern Song. Via Another Place.

How Felix von der Osten Won the Undergraduate Series Award

Congratulations Felix von der Osten on winning a Breakthrough Award by the British Journal of Photography!

Perama (1980 – 1982)

A series of old family photos by Greek photographer Nikos Markou. Via Phases.

Up close with the young acrobats of Namsa Leuba’s West African roots

Striking portraits of Guninean acrobats by half-Guinean, half-Swiss photographer Namsa Leuba. Via It’s Nice That.

Slowdown

Alex Cretey Systermans‘ Slowdown is “a collection of images about slowing down, contemplation and the (political) desire to remind how fast we live”.

“Every year the town of Hlinsko, Czech Republic, celebrate Masopust, a parade from house to house to ensure a rich harvest, fertility and to celebrate the imminent arrival of spring“. Photographs by Willem Jaspert. Via Paper Journal.

Joe Leavenworth’s Native Son

Here’s a good opportunity to take another look or discover for the first time a beautiful work that became pretty popular a few years ago: Native Son by Joe Leavenworth. Via Juxtapoz.