The book “Prabuddha Dasgupta, 1956–2012” was launched at a retrospective exhibition “Prabuddha Dasgupta: A Journey” at the National Gallery of Modern Art.
Singapore Photography, Pragmatism and the Political Landscape
In light of the Singapore 2015 elections, this #chutpattern piece is an “ownself check ownself” dialogue and an existentialist reflection for the Singapore photography community.
Dayanita Singh “Dear Aspiring Photographers”
Dayanita Singh, India’s dame of photography and bookmaking, has been rather active lately on her Facebook Page sharing her advice and opinions for aspiring photographers.
PhotoSutra: Repetition as Progress
There’s something essential in doing the same set of actions over and over again. It’s a kind of ruminating.
Top Ten Filipino Films You Should Watch
Top Ten Filipino Films You Should Watch. Copies of some of these films are really hard to come by but with a little perseverance, you might just get lucky.
Time and Context is Everything
The Philippine Daily Inquirer went to press before dawn on 29th April with a cover article on Indonesia’s execution of the ‘Bali Nine’.
Sometimes you can destroy your photography by being a photographer
A selection of memorable quotes from our articles and interviews.
Notes on Editing: A million ways to edit. One gut feel.
Editing is a numbers game. The more images and range you have, the more options you have to weave a sequence.
The Dark Heart Of Photography?
The old maxim ‘The camera never lies’ appears in recent weeks to have gone from being the photojournalist’s badge of trustworthy, evidential pride to a metaphysical conundrum.
Jannatul Mawa: Invisible Boundaries and Class Dynamics
Mawa created ‘Close Distance’, typological portraits of middle-class housewives and their domestic helpers, especially for her community and others in privileged positions in Dhaka’s educated middle-class.
Portraits from Singapore with Love
On a little street called Kerbau Road in Little India, stands Sajeev Digital Photo Studio, a quaint little photo studio run by 49 year old photographer K. Sajeev Lal with his wife Sheeja Shaj.
Complex Staging & Filling the Frame with Akira Kurosawa
Complex layering of subjects and the notion of filling the frame of a wide lens are techniques obsessed over by many who practice street photography.
Photography and the Art of Seeing
What is photography and what are its limits? The outer world is manifold. It contains everything, even art; but art overwhelmed by a flood of extraneous elements.
A Photographer is one who stakes everything on looking
A wonderful piece from Shomei Tomatsu in his book ‘Chewing Gum and Chocolate’ that shares some insight into his sensibilities and approach to photography.
Five budget 35mm cameras that are more modern than they look
If you’ve ever been curious about how advanced (or backward, rather) photography technology was decades ago, this list of cameras past might just blast your assumptions away.