THE VOICE OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHER: STEVE McCURRY – adapted by Ashley Crabill from the book steve mcCurry: a life in Pictures by Bonnie mcCurry (2018) Steve mcCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for more than 30 years, with scores of magazine and book covers, over a dozen books, and […]
Dear Readers, I would start off with the message quoted by T.S. Eliot in Four Quartets, where he said and I quote, “ For last year’s words belong to the last year’s language, and the next year’s words await another voice. ” The year 2020 if explained in a word can be said “Existential.” This […]
The Magical Tool: History of Photography in india Since 1840 Gaurav Kumar Without the natural gift of artistic expression, all the art knowledge in the world will, in nine cases out of ten, when applied to photography prove futile. It could be said that camera obscura marked the very beginning in India. It was a […]
Raja Deen Dayal: An Unforgettable Artist & Prince of Photographers Gaurav Kumar hile the world of Indian princes adopted the British raj, an Indian photographer rose to a place of great prominence and honor. he was lala deen dayal (1840-1905). originally from sardhana, near meerut, deen dayal had apparently risen by his wits to enroll […]
Framing Representations Indian Women in Early Photography – Surabhi Sharman The 19th century witnessed the growing acceptance of western modernity in India, and as a result, a counter ideology of the New Indian Woman began to permeate into the nationalist discourse. rooted in the growth of nationalism and contemporary events, the position of the modern […]
Sunil Janah’s Photo Journalism: Weaving Everyday Aaesthetics Through Politics – Urvi Chheda Old man: (While sipping curry) this lack of rice and the way the price of rice is increasing like this. do you know why this is happening? Gangacharan: Because of the war, right? Old man: Yes because of the war for sure. But […]
Beyond The Human Eye – Aadya Baoni “Photography enabled me to record with a camera the images seen by my eyes and then transform them to the perceived ones I desired, in a darkroom or with Photoshop.” – Jyoti Bhatt A wire mesh door opened to a wafting aroma of roasted gujarati food. Under the […]
Goa Familia: An Evolving Archive Of The Goa’s Social History – Manashri Pai Dukle Photography in India has been an important aspect of documentation, since the time of its origin in the mid-19th century. Propagating at a time when colonial rule in the subcontinent was at its peak, the camera was as much a tool […]
Ethics In Contemporary Photojournalism – Has Kajodi Reached Home? – Rahul Bhattacharya Many years ago, the Wanted series initiated the dialogue on ethics in photography. a seminar was organised at max muller Bhavan delhi in collaboration with goa- Cap and askar. subsequently, the goethe Institute at New delhi tried to formulate a working group which […]
Elements Of The Earth Metaphysical Crimson Meditations – Elizabeth Rogers Innate harmonies, connecting broader dimensions of time and space, thus art provides a means to express the imagination in non-grammatical ways not tied to the formality of spoken or written language. antonio Puri’s creativity defies nomenclature, extending beyond definitions of attribution or “isms”.exploring the elements, […]
Pushpamala N: Role Of Media In The Re-imagined Cultural Milieu – Saraswathy K Bhattathiri Pushpamala is a Bangalore based photo performance artist extensively working on themes around representation and gendered identities from 1990s. With a degree in sculpture and practice in curation she brings in theoretic aptitude into her visual art practice. she incorporates elements […]
Codes Painted On Internet: Art Of Baiju Parthan – Arushi Basaria “Paintings, digital media works and installations that I have been producing for the last three decades or so, have a common thread, which is my interest in cosmological (cosmographical as well as cosmogenic) narratives”- Baiju Parthan Technology has changed rapidly over the time and […]
Introspecting The New Paradigms In Photojournalism Of The Folk Communities By Partha Seal – Afreen Kraipak Khyriem The oeuvre of the photojournalist Partha seal is perceptive to the documentation of folk communities, livelihood, and interaction of rural with the encroachment of urbanization. he is a photojournalist and a videographer who resides in malugram, silchar. he […]
Of Art, Heritage & Wanderlust In Conversation With Sanjay Das – Upasana Bhattacharya A camera, an sUV and some great ideas. sanjay das travels through the country, riding on his Bucephalus, winning one great imagery after another. Images of Indian heritage he wants to preserve for posterity, images that have a life of their own. […]
Sisterhood. Togetherness. Belonging A Conversation With Sujata Khanna – Prachi Venkataraman The camera has been a vital way of bearing witness to world events. social documentary photography reinvents this tool to shed light on deeper social issues and is often subjective. sujata Khanna uses the camera not as a tool for documentation of the conditions […]
Radio Mirchi X Aravani Art Project #lionsofcovid The aravani art Project is an artistic collective that creates spaces for people from the transgender community to connect with other communities and cultures in their local neighborhoods. through public art and interventions, the aravani art Project reclaims the streets on which so many transgender people suffer violence […]
Your Studio Crumbled And Died – Joyona Medhi Daffodils gave way to diamonds, Bicycles went out of fashion, Butterflies shed their wings and cried, Your studio crumbled and died… The saint Paul daily globe, a newspaper of note in minnesota, on the fine sunday morning of January the 12th, 1896, carried a piece with the […]
Luc Tuymans: Downfall – Rajesh punj To look at and into a painting of Belgian artist luc tuymans is to encounter the visual world as though born of abstraction. of ice-cream coloured textures that serve to illustrate the banality of brutality, that like his contemporary michaël Borremans, come into contact with the canvas as though […]
