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…
Kolkata Maidan, a name that reminds the residents of this city of fresh air, sports, friendship, and a ton of nostalgia. Be it for early morning work or an evening stroll, nothing beats Maidan. This place holds a vivid range of picturesque landscape from season to season. In the winter…
Hello, I’m Riya Das, I’m a beginner photographer. I’ve started photography in 2018. I’m a learner. I love to take street moments and candids but in this quarantine, we aren’t able to go outside so I’m learning to self photograph my emotions and expressions. I got inspired by my father…
“You don’t need an ocean to feel like you’re drowning. You feel it, between your chest and your throat, the weight of it stretching you outside yourself, like a dead fish on the shore.“ I am a part of a time where an entire generation is stuck in a traffic…
But what would you do capturing the lives of these people? It’s not going to benefit you in any possible way! think about your own future. Think about your own progress…etc. Well, most of the time documentaries as such require a static level of mental strength combating against mindsets who…
Whenever Kashi is talked about, immediately we see the Ghats, the pure water of the river Ganga and the ancient alleyways of the city of Kashi. It is every photographers dream to go to Kashi to take photographs one day. It is indeed a rare opportunity to get to visit…
It had been more than one and a half months since we had been spending the lockdown at our home. And it’s very fatiguing as well as exhausting. Sitting at our homes 24×7 was not easy. So we decided to go on a sudden adventure. We reached at the resort…
Rammohan Mullick built it in 1855 in memory of his father Late Nimaicharan Mullick on the ground of the old ‘NoyanerGhat’ that their forefather NoyanchandMullick made before 1793. Down the river, next to the Jagannath Ghat of Sobharam Basak stands Nemai Mullick Ghat. Mullick Ghat took part in the history…
As per the updates, the environment is in better shape after the spread of COVID-19 and immobilizing of the society. But is really the environment on the advantageous side of this virus? To meet the increasing desperate demand for PPE single-use plastic is being used by most of the factories…
Photographer Pedro Dutra captured this below street photography series of COVID-19 Pandemic situation in Florianópolis, Southern Brazil. About Pedro Henrique Dutra Pedro Dutra was born in Florianópolis / SC in 1993, where he lives until the present time. He is graduating from the Social Sciences at the Federal University of…
Why she whispers like water- Jibonando Das. Prologue: What is the song of the river? Does it really sing a song? To know this answer, I had to set up close ties with rivers spending more time over there! When I look back, I recall those uncountable enigmatic moments that…
A few days ago, cyclone Amphan swept over Bengal. Last year, cyclones ‘Fani’ and ‘Bulbul’ also hit West Bengal. Bengal has never seen such frequent cyclones in the history of the last few decades. Various parts of the country are in a state of devastation due to successive cyclones. Especially…
It has been a score of years, I last wrote to you. Down memory lane, few glimpses are flashing within me. I am not going to ask you how are you as I know from the core of my heart that you are fine. Is it the strict, imposed, isolated…
For us who grew up in the eastern part of our country, three places made a permanent place in our sensibilities. Digha, Puri and Darjeeling, humorously acronymed as DiPuDa, are the places which Bengalees always find closest to their heart. Any plan for a summer or winter retreats for the…
When it comes to Dhaka, most of the time we get to hear how overpopulated the city is, or how bad the living conditions are there. Before photographing streets I used to think like that too. But once I started exploring the streets in Dhaka, especially in the old town,…
Photography is all about light. And when it comes to light, the shadow is inevitable. Shadow makes mystery. I’m working on some personal projects and Shadow Series is one of them. I’ve started this series back in 2019. I look for natural shadows and put my subject beneath it. Sometimes…