Kulasekarapattinam is a small village near Tiruchendur – Tamil Nadu. After the Mysore Dasara festival, this is the most happening place in South India. More than 15 lakhs people from all over Tamil Nadu unite here to worship Muthaaramman temple every year. They use to come by vans and buses…
Franck Pédersol is a French Photojournalist and Independent Photographer from Vizille Isère, France. Franck born in 1952, he got interested in photography at the age of 13. Franck always fascinated to capture factories, paper mills, weavings, forges, rolling mills, etc. Thanks, Franck for accepting our invite. Please read on… What…
Moushumee is a Freelance Documentary photographer from Assam, India. Starting her artistic journey as an actress, she became familiar with the language of camera and nuances of light and shade, frame angles and developed a keen sense of story-telling with her medium. She brings these experience as well as her…
A school is a building that has four walls with tomorrow inside.” – Lon Watters. School, a place where we start our together learning, is considered as Alma-mater as it provides intellectual nourishment to the students. It develops humanity, rational thoughts. Schoolcreatesa challenging academic environment to help students in developing…
Rural Maharashtra is widely known to its people as the abode of its various regional gods and the colorful vivid celebration related to them. These celebrations are done annually to different villages by the regional communities or dwellers to pay their reverence to their family deities, which are commonly known…
Balaji Maheshwar is a photographer from Chennai, India. He left his corporate job and become a full-time photographer. From last few years, he is capturing old theatres in Tamil Nadu, India. In his words about why he stick this project from long time “Time is necessary for everything we do.…
K M Asad is an independent documentary photographer from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He studies photography in Pathshala (The South Asian Media Academy) in Dhaka. His work “Rohingya Exodus” got international recognition. In his words about the good photograph, “I believe the picture which connects with anyone without text and the fresh view is…
Suzan Pektas is a documentary photographer born and brought up in Balkans, and currently living in Istanbul, Turkey. She started photography 5 years ago as a semi-professional career. for Suzan, documentary photography is a power of storytelling. She truly mesmerized by life, and more specifically the lives of ordinary people,…
Haridwar is one of the most popular Hindu pilgrimage places in India. It is also regarded as one amongst the seven holiest cities by Hindus. It is a place rich in culture and civilization which blend smoothly into each other giving this city a typical, rustic charm that is irresistible…
There is a narrative that when your tummy is filled up with foods and you have a roof up of your head, you need not to be worried. But is this narrative appropriate for the landless fled people like Rohingya refugee community in Bangladesh? Apparently, we, the civil society know…
Delta is one of the physiographic units of Bangladesh. The area is almost plainland where the elevation ranges from 15m in the north to nearly a metre in the south. The delta areas of Bangladesh are densely populated, with a predominance of agricultural activities due to the high fertility of…
On Ramadan, all Muslim people finish their fast. Iftar or Fatoor is the evening meal with which Muslims end their daily Ramadan fast at sunset. Muslims break their fast at the time of the call to prayer for the evening prayer. The daily fast during Ramadan begins immediately after the…
Sivaratri celebrates the convergence of Siva and Shakti. The “Mayana soora Thiruvizha” is a festival dedicated to Angalamman (a fierce guardian deity worshipped widely in Southern India) and is celebrating the small village of Kaveripattinam, the day after Mahasivarathri (the great night of Lord Shiva). Kaveripattinam is a panchayat town…
Different harvest festivals are celebrated differently in various parts of India. The Aoling festival is the annual ‘Spring Festival’ of tattooed head hunters belonging to the Konyak tribe of Nagaland. The celebration of the Aoling festival is spread across the first week of April every year in different villages of…
Tolis Chatzignatiou is a documentary photographer from Athens, Greece. He got interested in painting since childhood and he started photography in 2005. From 2010 he exclusively focuses on photography. In his words about the calmness in his photographs “Photography is the silent testament and awareness that time and words restrain…
Witnessing Republic Day Parade was always on my bucket list since childhood. During my school days I used to take part in such events and especially being into Army school it was a big opportunity to show your skills to Area Commander who used to be our Chief Guest. Never…