Photojournalism Daily: Nov. 26, 2014

Today’s daily Photojournalism Links collection highlights Kirsten Luce‘s work from the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas. The Rio Grande Valley in the southern tip of the state is one of the busiest points for illegal crossings anywhere along the long border between the two countries. Migrants and smugglers travel north using the region’s landscape of marshes and dense brushes as camouflage before fording the Rio Grande and scaling or slipping through the border fence and making their way further into Texas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has stepped up its presence in the Valley in order to try and cut down the number of successful crossings. Luce’s striking aerial photographs capture the tracking of these wanna-be migrants and smugglers from above.

Kirsten Luce: Border Lines (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Arnau Bach: African Migrants Cross Into the Spanish Enclave of Melilla (The New York Times) These compelling photographs draw attention to a border issue in Northern Africa.

2014 Pictures of the Year from Agence France Presse (The Denver Post)

Horrific pictures of dead bodies won’t stop wars (The Guardian) “Pictures of war should not only show us what bodies look like. They should educate us about the absurdities, the accidents and pointless killing,” argues Paul Mason, an economics editor at UK’s Channel 4 News.

2014 Joop Swart Masterclass Reflections (World Press Photo) Insightful interviews with the masters and participants of this year’s World Press Photo masterclass.

Photojournalism Links is a compilation of the most interesting photojournalism found on the web, curated by Mikko Takkunen, Associate Photo Editor at TIME. Follow him on Twitter @photojournalism.