Stephen Shames is one of the most powerful names in documentary photography. Stephen is a veteran American photojournalist who has been with his camera for more than 45 years now. His work has most importantly covered child poverty, racial issues, various solutions to poverty and much more. In this Interview…
The idea behind photo essay’s are to evoke a series of emotions onto the onlooker. Often these essay’s show certain deep emotional stages or document a story. On the whole the objective is to narrate a story through a handful of photographs. In this post of ours, We wanted to…
Calcutta has always been the centre of art and culture in India, among which theatre played a pivotal role in shaping up the social mind set of the city. The tradition of mainstream theatre is believed to have been started since the 1940s. Calcutta has witnessed the rise of both…
Interesting captures on street with an exuberant eye for details and composition. Sometimes vibrancy and the architectural aspects and on the other hand irresistible characters within the frame. Alison McCauley is a Geneva-based documentary photographer. Among other projects, she is currently working on a long-term project documenting the lives of…
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American Photographer who was a multifaceted individual making his reign over photography, music, literature and movies. Gordon Parks is primarily well known and fondly remembered for his photographic essays for life magazine and a notable film director for the film Shaft. © Gordon…
Every year people in Bangladesh are disfigured beyond recognition by acid attacks. The victims are literally scarred for life. Award-winning photographer Ken Hermann and video journalist Tai Klan visited Bangladesh and returned with a striking series of photos and a documentary that emphasizes the resilience of the mutilated victims It…
Story of mankind, those intolerable diseases, rather painful moments and contagious discomfort. Against all these odds, there remains some strong hold for love, faith and a concrete reason to prolong life as we call it. That specific reason to raise your head against the high tides and tsunamic struggles life…
Child Labor still prevails in most of the developing countries and could well be called as a sin to keep those innocent children away from education, depriving of their childhood. There will be numerous laws and legislations across the globe trying its hand in prohibiting and on the process of…
“In the little house of red mud, Vola was taking a break from her multiple daily chores to look at her children play games. On the wooden bench, near the only window that let a ray of austral light in, Vola was letting herself be lulled by her dreams. In…
City parks are places for refreshment. People come here to seek solitude and breathe fresh air – indeed it gives urban people a sense of openness. With the rapid urbanization of Dhaka city, greenery is diminishing day by day. The city has a burden of more than twenty million people…
“My photography is a reflection, which comes to life in action and leads to meditation. Spontaneity – the suspended moment – intervenes during action, in the viewfinder. A reflection on the subject precedes it. A meditation on finality follows it, and it is here, during this exalting and fragile moment,…
Ian Berry was born in Preston, England. It was in 1952, Berry moved to South Africa, a place which brought him great recognition. Berry started to learn photography on his own and later worked as an assistant to Roger Madden, who had been an assistant himself to the great Ansel…
Photo Essay by: Saikat Samaddar My sister is playing sitar in that corner room. She grew up into a young lady in the corridors, in the back yard of this house. My mom after returning from office is busy with her house hold engagements. At night she will wait for…
Documentary Project by: Daniel Rodrigues In a village called Galomaro, region of Bafata, Guinea-Bissau, there is an hospital where conditions are almost none. In the dry season the rooms are too hot to be inside. There is no air conditioning and light is scarce because there lack of electricity. The…
A complete photo story is something which makes one understand the main objective for what it needs to be done, to bring a change to the masses, to show them light. Documenting people and the stories beyond the ordinary is one of the fascinating and daunting task in terms of Photojournalism.…
India will remain the land of festivities, colors, action and of course lots of stories for its varied social classes and political scenarios. Boston being one of the legends in creating impact with mass journalism has had their prominent say when it comes to covering a photo-story against global issues.…