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

A friend and fellow journalist is raising funds to create a really cool visual fellowship focusing on documentary photojournalism in honor of Nick Oza. If you don’t know Nick’s name, he was an incredible photojournalist based in Phoenix and an even better human being. If you can contribute, please do.

“Cheese and crackers!” There are 15 minutes of highlights here. And rightfully so, this UCL semi was definitely one of the best football matches — maybe, ever.

“At that moment, the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them.” Powerful quote from Percival Everett, 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction¹, who wrote James, my favorite book of 2025² (so far!). Also, huge congrats to Doug Mills and Moises Saman for their Pulitzer Prizes in news and feature photography, respectively. As well as hugs and high fives to Stacy Kranitz, Jessica Gallagher, and Jabin Botsford — photographers who contributed to staff Pulitzers with some incredible work.

My friend Andria Hautamaki has been telling and pitching beautiful stories from her home in Patagonia. Aside from being a terrific documentary storyteller, she’s also carved out a cool niche with one of her passions — horses. Loved seeing and reading this metaphor for life’s many different ways of doing something.

A Syrian refugee photographs her home, from its borders.

1. ICYMI: If you’re ever looking for a good read, here’s my spreadsheet of every fiction winner, as well as the finalists, since the Pulitzer Prize for fiction began.

2. So far!