The Road Workers are some of the poorest and most marginalized sections of society. In India, they are mostly migrants from remote villages, often are less educated and not cautious about different preventive measures. Recently I happened to visit one of a road construction site in the outskirts of my…
Bapi da is lonely man living in the pilgrim town of Tarakeswar in West Bengal District, India. He has no close relatives, no close friend. He is an just another ordinary beggar. But that’s not how I found him when I met him in the bus stand in Tarakeswar. He…
Every year ‘Hujur Saheber Mela‘ is held annually along the international border between India and Bangladesh on 5th and 6th day of the Bengali Calendar month of Phalgun (February). This fair serves as a unique bridge between the two nations, just near the zero-line on the India-Bangladesh International Border at…
Think before you shoot… Here are 7 thoughts from world-renowned artist Roger Ballen. We are sharing this video from COOPH. Follow their Youtube channel for regular updates. About Roger Ballen Roger Ballen born in New York City in 1950. He is an American photographer living in Johannesburg, South Africa, and…
It was just another Sunday and time for us photopals for an outing; this time we decided to explore the middle class travel on the Badampahar special. This train travels to Badampahar, a small mining area in the Mayurbhanj district of Odisha. This is the only train moving from Tatanagar…
It covers various environmental and health problems in India and tries to convey the message through the photographs. I visited Varanasi in November 2015 and was shocked to see the scene at Manikarnika Ghat (also known as Burning Ghat), where pyres are burnt 24 hours a day seven days a…
The nomadic Rautes are the last hunters and gatherers of the Himalayas. The Rautes, who call themselves Kings of Forests, subsist on langur and macaque monkeys, wild yams, rice and a few kinds of vegetables traded from local farmers. Their main occupation is to trade and exchange of wooden items…
In remote mountains like Uttarey, number of schools are very limited and as a result, it’s not a very easy for children to achieve proper education. Children have to walk miles to go to a school daily through rough hilly roads. But these difficulties cant stop them to be educated…
The Pongala festival which is celebrated every year around late Feb and early March at the renowned Attukal Bhagavathi temple in Kerala’s capital city of Thiruvananthapuram is an experience with euphoria of religion, faith and beliefs. The festival has entered the Guinness records for being the largest single gathering of…
The world’s greatest photographers reveal the secrets behind their images. A collection of films that uncover the artistic processes of the greatest contemporary photographers from an original perspective. Using images (contact prints, proofs, prints, or slides) with commentary by the artists themselves, the viewer is thrust into the secret universe…
From the ancient ages oil massage is popular and well practiced in India for holistic healing and detoxifying body, mind and spirit. Hogenakkal Falls is located in Dharmapuri district of Tamilnadu on river Kaveri. Along with the majestic view of Hogenakkal Falls, Hogenakkal has some famous oil massages which is…
This is very interesting documentary by Romanian photographer Bogdan Gîrbovan. He named this project as 10/1. From his words: “I took a photograph of each apartment (the interior of each space) from the same angle, in order to better illustrate the mix of social classes in the block, displaying only…
The rains don’t smell like rain back home. The lights are brighter, the streets strange. Religions clash here, 9/11 happened and almost overnight, Muslims weren’t the token minority anymore. Everything’s in English and Bangla has to claw its way out of my throat when I speak. The children we bring…
“The New Town” is a district of the town Anina (Romania), one neighborhood that was built in the early 80s as a residential area for the workers of the thermoelectric power plant from Crivina. The construction of the power plant began in 1976. The authorities’ plan was that this power…
Check these heart touching photographs how refugee children today are same as those from World War II. All images and captions via © UNICEF. Learn more about the refugee and migrant crisis in Europe. You can find UNICEF on the Web: Website, Facebook, Tumblr, Donate (For more info Medium, MyModernMet) …
I have traveled to Nilgiris many a times but never did I come across this community living here belonging to a very rare ethnicity called Toda. My indifference to any such enthusiasm was quite evident when I found that I even had a photo of their temple from kodanad but…