The secret tool in a great photographer’s camera bag is ‘ACCESS’. We all take good photographs, or at least we should be, but the ones that stand head and shoulders above the rest are those where the photographer has made that extra effort, gained that extra trust and access, and shot pictures of a subject with that much more intimacy and insight. So, next time you consider upgrading your tools, invest in ACCESS.
Stuff We Like: Museo Rag, Zoom H1, S95, Silver Efex Pro 2 & 3/11 Tsunami Photo Project
1. Museo Portfolio Rag Paper Our favourite inkjet print media – Museo Portfolio Rag Paper. 100% Cotton. 300GSM of Archival beauty. Great for B/W Prints, especially with multi-black cartridge pigment ink. 2. Canon PowerShot S95 We’ve used the Canon PowerShot S95 and love it. Smallest RAW shooting compact camera that really fits in a pocket. Love it’s analogue-style control ring too. Feels like a modern digital version of a Rollei 35s/Olympus XA to us. 3. Silver EFex Pro 2 The best digital b/w darkroom application just got better. We tried the new Silver Efex Pro 2 by Nik Software and …
Invisible Interview: Tay Kay Chin
Tay Kay Chin, a Singapore-based photographer, spent more than a decade in newspapers in Singapore and USA and held positions from photographer to presentation editor.
Photo Essay: Charak, a Hindu Ritual, by Anindya Chakraborty
Synopsis Charak puja is a traditional Bengali festival celebrated mainly in the rural areas. A festival dedicated strictly to penance, Charak puja stands unique in the scenario of Bengali festivals. The groups of men and women, who take up this Brata or the time bound ritual, have to go through a month long fasting from sunrise to sunset, live strictly on fruits & perform daily worship in order to get the blessings of the lord. On the day of the Charak or the Gajan, as it is also called, bamboo stages are made on bamboo poles, the height ranging from 10 to 15 …
IPA Sunny 16 Dog Tags (Limited Stock) now available for online purchase.
IPA Sunny 16 Dog Tags (Limited Stock) now available for online purchase. Click here for online purchase: IPA Sunny 16 Dog Tags – International Purchase The IPA Sunny 16 Dog Tags are electron-plated aluminium, with double-sided laser-marked inscriptions ‘SUNNY 16 Chart + (IPA) Invisible Ph t grapher Asia Insignia’. The Tags are available in 2 finishes – a black/bronze finish and a chrome finish. Each tag comes with a rubber guard silencer and a steel ball chain. Limited stocks also available for local purchase in Singapore at Chiif Cameras, 5 Coleman Street #02-25 Excelsior Shopping Centre.
Daido Moriyama – Northern, Northern 2 and Northern 3
Daido Moriyama is probably the best known Japanese street photographer.
Photo Essay: Stories behind the numbers – Bloody Sunday, by Kürşat Bayhan
Synopsis October 25th of 2009, there were bomb explosions in Bagdad – one at the Justice Department and the other at the city’s county council. 147 lives were lost and hundreds others were wounded. These were the most bloodiest attacks in Iraq since 2007. Newspapers referred to the explosions as “The Bloody Sunday”. Stories behind the numbers: daily reality for the victims of the Iraq War I met Abu Nasr on a narrow street in the Griad Seria district of central Baghdad. A year before, he had lost his fingers and left eye in a suicide attack targeting the Ministry …
7th Angkor Photo Festival – Call For Submissions
We recently caught up with Françoise Callier and Jessica Lim from the Angkor Photo Festival. They have been working hard behind the scenes on the festival’s 7th edition taking place from 19th to 26th November, 2011 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. We were privy to hear the festival’s plans this year and their wonderful support for young Asian photographers. The Call For Submissions to this year’s festival is now open till 15th June, 2011. Call For Submissions to The 7th Angkor Photo Festival Created in 2oo5, the Angkor Photo Festival is the first such event to be organized in Southeast …
WHO CARES? HIV/AIDS in Cambodia, by Masaru Goto
These images tells a story about the life of HIV/AIDS patients, their families, AIDS orphans, and the struggle of medical staff and how local NGOs work day by day for more HIV/AIDS educational programs in Cambodia. These images were taken mainly in Battambang, Banteay Mean Chey, Siem Reap and in Phnom Penh. The images are only a small window into the tremendous pain and suffering endured by patients and their families. There is no future for orphans whose parents died from AIDS. My greatest thanks is to those people living with HIV or AIDS, who welcomed me into their lives …
The worst enemy of all good photographers…
Invisible Quote Quote: The worst enemy of all good photographers is bad editing… and a Flash website. Read more quotes: https://invisiblephotographer.asia/tag/invisible-quotes
If I Had Wings… After The Tsunami, by Junku Nishimura
The old mother handed me home-made umeboshi (pickled plums) and nori-no-tsukudani (laver boiled down in soy) as mementos, and told me “You be sure to come back someday.”
IPA Street Photography Asia Contest 2011
IPA STREET PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST Invisible Ph t grapher Asia celebrates their 1st anniversary in April 2011. To mark this anniversary milestone, we are hosting our first Street Photography Contest. This contest is a celebration, a challenge, and a search for the best street photography and photographers in Asia. The contest is open and free to photographers of any level, and in any country of residence. Each photographer may submit up to 3 entries in total. Submissions must be in the street photography genre and shot in Asia within the last 12 months. Contest submission period starts from 1st April and closes …
Photo Essay: Possible Life, by Binh Dang
Cambodia is the most disabled country in the world. One out of every 236 people has stepped on a landmine.
Photo Essay: Family Ties, by Sonny Thakur
Family Ties is an ongoing project documenting the lives of my family in Manila and Ahmedabad. The images offer an intimate and heart-warming look at the filial bonds, simple joys and comfortable dynamics of my family. It is a family album. Family Ties was part of the open call submission of SIPF 2010 Human:Nature. Photographer: Sonny Thakur | Website: www.sonnythakur.com
Invisible Interview: Stefen Chow
Stefen Chow is an editorial photographer based in Beijing and Singapore, and one of the brave few to have scaled and photographed some of the highest mountains in the world, including Mount Everest. A professional photographer sponsored by Nikon, Stefen’s work has been published and awarded by PDN, Time Magazine and Wall Street Journal to name a few. In this video edition of our Invisible Interviews, we get up close and personal with Stefen as he shares his extreme adventure photography and his latest social-documentary project ‘The Poverty Line – China’. More work from Stefen on his website: www.stefenchow.com