Mumbai’s urban villages are historically endowed with a rich social and cultural capital leading to quiet yet disconcerted existences. Struggling to fit into the mosaic of the city’s contemporary urban culture, Worli Koliwada, one of the earliest fishing villages in Mumbai, is representative of this phenomenon. With the city’s towering…
Photographing bears in Finland was an exciting and unforgettable experience that became one of the photographic highlights of a rather strange 2020. It’s hard to explain the feeling of having these massive animals at only an arm-length away; it’s simply something that must be experienced. It was astonishing to have…
Every Friday evening a biology teacher Elena comes to the river bank to feed the fish with cookies. It was like this for many years, until one day she came across a round, elongated object wrapped in a fishing net. The object was shimmering in different colors. Putting an ear…
Visiting the West Coast of Greenland is a bittersweet experience. My visits here are without a doubt some of my photographic highlights but it’s also alarming hearing the local residents talk about how climate change is affecting their beloved land. They talk about icebergs that were over a hundred meters…
These images are a part of a personal journey where I search for answers to some fundamental questions about life, its meaning, and purpose and then later my understanding about the nature of ‘Reality’. This quest took me to every nook and corner of India meeting sadhus, philosophers, scientists and…
Teleport it´s a photographic work that will make us dream at the speed of light, it will make us accomplices of the great Argonaut journey of matter through space-time, described in Albert Eninstein’s equations of general relativity. Wormholes that lie in apparent invisibility, will reveal to us a new temporal…
Mind and soul are two concepts that are closely relater yet very distinct from one another. They both come from the inner part of a human being, Particularly his brain and maybe his Heart. The soul is the spiritual nature of humankind. It is the intangible essence of humankind, and…
The people of world are in a distressed condition from physically, mentally, economically, socially due to outbreak of Covid- 19 virus. The world is suffering with huge work loss and poverty resulting to overall sadness coupled with depression in present time due to the pandemic situation arises out of COVID-…
It’s time to rest. And it’s also time for the world to wake up to an enlightened dawn. Without sleep, awakenings never happen. They come hand in hand just like joys and sorrows. Every time we sleep and get into the world of the sub-conscious, do we ever wonder if…
RakherUpobash” or Kartik brot” is a worshipping ritual, which is organized every year in the different branches of SreeLucknathBrahmacharya’s sanctuary. Baba Lucknath was an 18th-century devout Hindu saint and a philosopher. During the last fifteen days of the Bengali month Karthik; in remembrance of Baba Lucknath, and for ensuring the…
This story is an ongoing project, I have worked on a project that highlights the bedey or gypsy community of our country. Most of them work as hawker and Singa (gets rid of people’s teeth worms and relieves muscle pain). Although these professions are respected, not much financial support can…
I am a womb. A womb that nurtures and cares. A womb the creates you and creates me. A womb, that when nurtures, knows no difference between you and me. A womb that when delivers, knows no difference between you and me. A womb that is revered when it delivers…
Moghal emperor Islam Khan in 1608 established capital in Dhaka. From that period the sweepers have been employed to ensure the municipal facility for the commuters. In the 18th century when the British Government established its new administration, it becomes necessary to employ a huge number of sweepers to clean…
Kumartuli is known for its traditional potters’ quarters. It is home to several talented potters who toil tirelessly to create clay idols for several generations. I have always wondered how these beautiful idols are sculpted, how long it takes to craft the idol so intricately. So whenever I get an…
Capturing neighbors and surrounding in Covid time, mainly when the country was applying social distancing. My country (Vietnam) has passed 2 phases of Covid-19 and stop the disease quite well at this time: 50 days for no infection in the community. About Tuấn Lê I am working as a journalist,…
A young girl writes a poem where she asks a simple question — one which no one can answer. She asks, “Who am I?” Her forefathers were born in India, they immigrated to Pakistan, she was born in Bangladesh. India has given up on them a long time back, Bangladesh…