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Here are 5 things I was looking at and loving this week:

The Red Balloon is 34 minutes of innocence and hope — beautifully shot. Fun fact: It’s also the only short film to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. The reviews are equally fascinating, bordering on cynicism and darkness from adults.

Kent Nishimura’s photography, sucked me in and I stayed because it was a great story about the Department of Labor. That’s right… you heard me. The Washington Post has a new series asking “Who is government?” Where seven great writers (including Dave Eggers, Sarah Vowell, W. Kamau Bell, and, in the case of this first one, Michael Lewis) go in search of the essential public servant.

I first met Nick Pachelli when he wrote a story about a young tennis player I photographed for the NYT. Fast forward 7 years, many emails and DMs talking about photo gear, drones and licensing later, and The Tennis Court is now out in the world. Nick traveled to 32 countries, visiting more than 1,000 courts and clubs, the more surprising and obscure the better.

A photographer traveled 10,000 miles through Ukraine. This is what he saw. “A lot of my colleagues are newspaper photographers, and they’re out there shooting every day for the newspaper. Then (their photos are) on the pages for that day... I have more time to go back and cultivate it and try to present it in a different way,” Byron Smith said, describing his [work] as a “slower form of journalism.”

If you’re a Sally Mann fan, here’s your chance to own one of her prints. For $25 you get one raffle ticket, and thus one entry for the drawing. $50… two tickets… Plus you’re supporting a good cause.