Shanghai-based Ying Tang works as a magazine photographer by day, and moonlights as a charismatic street photographer by night. Her work has been featured in the British Journal Of Photography and numerous other publications, and her Sakura Love Flickr page is a favourite amongst many adoring fans. Her street photography in Shanghai is without doubt, one [...]
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I’m a photographer who shoots for fun, food and fetish, and I belong to the ‘Focus on the craft not tools’ school. But an upcoming event celebrating Rangefinders has tickled the closet gear head in me, hence this confession of love and lust for my dear old rangefinder camera.
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Some of you asked for it – here it is. An exclusive interview with Jonathan van Smit also known as K_iwi. Referred by some as fearless, Jonathan hails from New Zealand, and is a Gweilo (as he proudly carries the label) street photographer in Hong Kong. His photographs are a stream of stark, grungy, noir-ish [...]
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Tamara Voninski is a founding member of Oculi, a collective of award-winning documentary photographers in Australia founded in 2000. Numerous of her photography projects have garnered recognition from the Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award over the years. Her photographs of Polynesia and Shanghai are sensitive and quirky, reflecting a wandering soul, and a curious eye behind the [...]
Continue Reading →If you’re in Singapore and interested in finding out more about rangefinder photography and cameras, or to celebrate them, head on down to Singapore Art Museum on Friday 6th Aug 2010 for the “Rangefinder – An Introduction” event organised by Rangefinder Singapore (RF.SG). Rangefinders were the classic cameras of choice for street photographers and photojournalists, [...]
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Paul Swee is a Malaysian street photographer based in Hong Kong, and a contributor at Invisible Photographer Asia. His black & white film photographs are classical, spontaneous and most importantly, an insightful journey into life less ordinary in the two countries he now calls home. Invisible Photographer Asia: Your Hong Kong and Malaysia street photography [...]
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Many may not have heard of French millionaire philanthropist Albert Khan, but in 1909 he embarked on his ambitious Archives of the Planet project to to create a colour photographic record of the world and its peoples. He commissioned a group of intrepid photographers to document more than fifty countries around the world at the [...]
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Rollover images for slideshow controls LiangShan County Beijing-based photographer Eric Guo’s photographs are classical and alluring. Here we feature an essay of 24 photographs from his LiangShan County project. Your 美撒 photographs are beautiful and alluring. Can you tell us more about them - where and when were the photographs taken? Eric Guo: This series [...]
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Located on the west coast of India along the Arabian Sea, Goa was liberated in 1961, after 450 years of Portuguese rule. The ambivalence created by this transition of culture and political loyalty provides the backdrop for the work of Indian photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta in Edge of Faith. The 79 black and white photographs create [...]
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“In January 2006 I was sent on assignment to India from the NGO Leonard Cheshire International, to photograph the activities they bring forward to help people with disability in the poorest areas of the country. This set of pictures cuts across the different areas that I visited, from the Academy for Blind in Bangalore, to the [...]
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In North Korea the child death rate is between 60 and 90 per thousand, ten times higher than in Europe. Hospitals have no heating during the winter and no cooling in summer, when the temperature reaches over 40 degrees celsius. Windows and doors can hardly be closed. Worse still, there are no medicines.
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Andy Spyra, from Hagen in Germany, is the winner of the ‘Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2010’. His photography project ‘Kashmir’ ranks among his most important long-term projects. For him, the region he visited for the first time in 2007 is one of the world’s most wonderful places. All the more reason for him to [...]
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