Last week, the photographer Matt Eich took The New Yorker’s Instagram feed with him to Sweetwater, Texas, for the Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup. At the roundup, held each year since 1958, thousands of wild rattlesnakes are captured, sold, displayed, and, often, killed as part of the week’s events. “The idea of being around thousands of snakes wasn’t high on my bucket list.” Eich told me. “Still, I decided it would be worth seeing and experiencing, so I marked the event on my calendar nearly a year out.”

Click-through for a slideshow of Eich’s photos, and for more from Maria Lokke on his experience: http://nyr.kr/WONILl

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Last week, Ed Kashi posted to The New Yorker’s Instagram feed from Nicaragua, where he spent the week working on an ongoing project about Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown origin (CKDu), an epidemic that has killed thousands of sugar-cane workers throughout Central America. The disease is more than twenty years old, and has now reached its third generation of workers, many of whom are young men in their twenties. Kashi spent most of his trip in the town of Chichigalpa, the center of the epidemic, which has been called the Island of Widows.

Click-through for a slideshow of Kashi’s photos: http://nyr.kr/YwOGHA

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This week, Laura El-Tantawy will be documenting her hometown of Cairo via The New Yorker’s Instagram feed. While this is expected to be another turbulent week in Egypt—read Peter Hessler’s Comment in our new issue for the latest—Tantawi will focus on the periphery, bringing us snapshots of daily life in Cairo, as well as photos of a ten-member fishing family who live on small boats on the Nile. Above, Amr, a fisherman, performs prayer on his boat. Follow @newyorkermag for updates. 

Kendrick Brinson is taking over The New Yorker’s Instagram feed this weekend, posting from Sun City, Arizona, an age-restricted city of more than forty thousand retirees. Follow @newyorkermag on Instagram for updates.

Last week, the photographer and filmmaker Mikhail Galustov took The New Yorker’s Instagram feed with him around Kabul, Afghanistan, where he is based. (In October, we published a slide show of Galustov’s Afghan faces.) “I wanted to focus on the side of Kabul that rarely makes it on the pages of news outlets,” he told me. “It’s a very special moment in the life of the city; there is an enormous development effort that many find controversial. The upcoming elections and withdrawal of foreign troops make the future look uncertain. Twelve years of intensive foreign investment have created shopping malls, districts of new housing, paved roads, jobs, and a group of nouveau riche that benefitted from the international attention.” Click-through for a selection of favorites from the feed: http://nyr.kr/UxQJuI

Cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan. For more: http://nyr.kr/11t6lEZ

This week, continuing with our Instagram Takeover series, the Afghanistan-based photographer Mikhail Galustov is posting from Kabul. His first photo, above, shows teen-agers hanging out on the wreckage of a Soviet personnel carrier on top of Wazir Akbar Khan hill, overlooking Kabul. Follow @newyorkermag on Instagram for updates. 

Last week, the photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind took over The New Yorker’s Instagram account, documenting a long weekend in the English countryside with Camilla Naprous, a twenty-five-year-old rider and horse master and part of the stunt team The Devil’s Horsemen. For the past two years, the team has worked on the HBO series “Game of Thrones.” Anastasia caught up with them at the family farm in Buckinghamshire.
Click-through for a selection of her photos: http://nyr.kr/ShMP9B

Shannon stands beside what’s left of her bed, after fire completely destroyed her home yesterday.

As others took refuge from Sandy indoors, Brooklyn-based photographer Radcliffe Roye took to the streets—and beaches—of New York City. Follow @newyorkermag on Instagram to see how New Yorkers weathered the storm on Monday, and click-through for a selection of his images: http://nyr.kr/ShAPDO

After twenty-one hours of travel, Landon Nordeman asked himself what he was doing in Targu-Mures, Romania. “Seriously, I had not been sent here,” he told me. “I came on my own will, and on my own dime.” There he was at the 2012 Euro Dog Show, in the heart of Romania, with a new iPhone and the password to The New Yorker’s Instagram account…

Landon Nordeman talks about his experience instagramming for our feed, and see a slideshow of his photos: http://nyr.kr/Q2B7fI

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