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“Dargah Shareef (tomb) of Hazrat Sayeed Ali Miradatar is located in Unava village in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The worshippers come to the shrine believing the evil spirits residing within them will get expelled out of their bodies.” Source View Photo Essay: Blind faith at Miradatar
Continue Reading →‘Good Luck China’ is vivid, and curiously amusing portrait of China and its people. The series has a vintage pallete of colors one associates with Middle Kingdom propaganda imagery. Eric, a photographer from Hong Kong, shot ‘Good Luck China’ in 12 visits to China over 2 years. Having a small budget, he spent just 6$US per [...]
Continue Reading →The Red Shirts anti-government protests in Bangkok are Thailand’s most violent in recent times, with many protesters and government forces killed and wounded. The Red Shirts are a group that supports the country’s deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, now living in exile, and are demanding for the removal of the current government, supported by the [...]
Continue Reading →The disjunction between the needs of men and women in Asia have led to an odd phenomenon: When women from more developed countries are unwilling to enter into old-fashioned marriages based on subservience to parents-in-law and procreation of children, men from that country may search out women from another, more traditional one, to marry. Many [...]
Continue Reading →A Home 8,000 Miles Away is a gritty, yet calmly reflective portrait of Toishan, a city in the Guangdong Province in southern China, by a returning son of the Chinese Diaspora. Alan Chin’s story is familiar one to many 2nd and 3rd generation Chinese, born and bred outside their motherland, whose parents left for the western world in pursuit of their gold mountain dream. Alan’s photographs will be a faint, but familiar mirage of a home forgotten.
Continue Reading →After Paris and Europe, Cartier-Bresson’s second love was Asia. He spent a lot of time across the region after the war, capturing a journey of images across China, India, Kashmir, and Southeast Asia. He was there at the death of Gandhi, and his picture firmed the event’s decisive moment. He had a particular fondness of Indonesia, and married Ratna Mohini, a Javanese dancer.
Continue Reading →A beautiful series of photographs depicting ordinary China in the late seventies, captured by Austrian born photojournalist Inge Morath.
Inge Morath was born in Graz, Austria, in 1923. After studying languages in Berlin, she became a translator, then a journalist and the Austrian editor for Heute, an Information Service Branch publication based in Munich…
Continue Reading →Henri Cartier-Bresson’s ambitious 1958 photo essay on the Great Leap Forward, Mao Tse-tung’s intensive program of forced industrialization. He worked steadily for four months in China, and although he was closely monitored by the authorities, he returned with a very substantial body of work, rich in concrete detail.
Continue Reading →The Top 20 finalist images in the recent Canon S90 Street Photography Challenge featuring photographs from across Asia including India, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Continue Reading →Drought along the Mekong River – a captivating series of photographs on NYT documenting the severe drought in southern China and Southeast Asia. View Photo Essay: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/04/01/world/20100402-DROUGHT_index.html
Continue Reading →Cage Dogs of Hong Kong, an intimate photo essay by Brian Cassey for SoCo Hong Kong on PhotoPhilantropy.org. View Photo Essay: http://www.photophilanthropy.org/slideshow/gallery_briancassey.html
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