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Ruddy Roye was in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck the city. While photographing the aftermath, he wished he had a service that could quickly publish his images.

Years later, when Hurricane Sandy hit New York, Instagram was becoming the method of choice for many photojournalists. He writes:

My Instagram account has become a way for me to question everything around me. The media has a way of deleting the stories of people who society does not want to deal with. This is my humble way of putting these stories back in people’s faces — forming a real and active dialogue about these issues.

Using Instagram as a Tool For Photojournalism in NYC

Amazon Unpacked by Ben Roberts

Workers at Rugeley spend their days wandering the massive warehouse, either squirreling away incoming products, pulling orders down from shelves, or packing them up for shipment. In each of these activities, the workers’ motions are not driven by the engine of human judgment or expertise but rather by the massive engine of Amazon’s exquisitely complex fulfillment mechanism: a computer that both tracks and commands every worker’s movements throughout the day.