Bangladesh is one of the countries most likely to suffer adverse impacts from anthropogenic climate change. Threats include sea level rise, floods, and cyclones (approximately 130,000 people were killed in the cyclone of April 1990). The impacts of climate change will only exacerbate the problems already facing the population. Climate…
The COVID-19 days. These days are different. While the whole world is still fighting against a deadly pandemic, the only way we can contribute to our society is by staying at home. This is an attempt at a visual story-telling to share my story during these lockdown days. All the…
Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world in territorial extension, with 8,514,876 km2. The country has a 7,367 km coastline, bathed in the east by the Atlantic Ocean. The contour of the Brazilian coast increases to 9,200 km if the projections and indentations of the coast are considered.…
Commissioned by Attiko Metro and the Hellenic Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, ‘Unearthed’ is a new series of images taken at the construction sites of the underground metro stations in Athens and Thessaloniki in Greece during July 2020. The Line 3 extension in Athens will at its completion connect the…
Rice is one of the most popular staple food in India. It also forms a vastly popular food grain and plays a major role in satiating the appetites across the length and breadth of India. It constitutes a major role in the national foodgrain market. Rice cultivation covers 30% of…
The POWER POLES project is a conceptual project. It is a series of photographs without description. For free interpretation by the viewer. Paweł Franik born in Knurow, a small town in the province of Silesia. Currently based in Warsaw, Poland. He studied film and photography in the WST in Katowice/Poland,…
COVID pandemic has entered India in the last week of March. It has changed our way of living. It has different phases, lockdown 1, 2, and 3, then unlock phases. Photographing these while maintaining social distancing and taking all precautions. Lockdown started with some activities like igniting lanterns to remove…
In the Indian subcontinent, the potter community is known as Kumhar or Kumbhar, derived from the term Kumharkar, literally, maker of kumbha (earthen pot). The kumbha is believed to have emerged from the cosmic ocean during the SamudraManthan (Churning of the Ocean), a mythological episode that finds mention in the…
Paintings on the clay walls of the tribal villages have been a long-prevailing practice in India. In West Bengal, this is known as ‘Deoal Chitra’ (means wall paintings). It is predominantly found on the walls of the dwellings of the Santhal (the largest tribal community in India) communities across Birbhum,…
The history of bodybuilding in Bangladesh is not very well known through Google. It is not known in which year Mr. Bangladesh competition started. However, the idea that it started from the 80s. Even in the ’90s, besides Mr. Bangladesh, Mr. Dhaka or 1 or 2 more contests were held…
During clicking lifestyle of people around us, I found the different lifestyle of village people especially who are engaged in paddy grain processing. So today I am going to tell the stories about the paddy grain drying process of village people. This is how the men and women dry grains…
My childhood passed in the Arasbaran forests and the intact nature of Azerbaijan. I still remember when I used to go to the homeland of my father on the foothills of the Savalan Mountain, solitary roads, apple trees, mountains full of snow and green valleys, sounds of birds and melody…
Even a decade ago, bricks were the main material used in building and road construction in Bangladesh. Now the days have changed, the stone is taking the place of the brick kiln as a sustainable construction material. How fast this change is happening is clear in one piece of information.…
Varanasi, also known as Banaras is a city on the banks of the Ganges and it is the spiritual capital of India. It is one of the holiest cities in Hinduism. The ghat refers to a series of steps leading down to a body of holy water, Ganges. These series…
Fusu is the Chinese term of the word “Recovery”. Recovery is one of the most used words in today’s world. This is a word of hope, a word of light. The entire world is at home for this deadly virus called Novel Corona (COVID-19). A virus that spread from china…
The Atlantic Forest, known locally as Mata Atlântica, is Brazil’s richest and most threatened forest land. At the Mantiqueira Mountains (Serra da Mantiqueira), not far from the country’s largest urban centres, some are leading by example and getting their hands dirty to restore the past and sow the seeds of…