This is a story of a fictional lake, a tribute to the lakes that have disappeared. Some of them, once centres of life, are no longer remembered.
Call For Submissions: Taiwan and Hong Kong Showcase at Angkor Photo Festival
This is a call for submissions for photographers from Taiwan and Hong Kong with a body of work in documentary photography. Deadline: 28th July, 2015.
Photo Essay: Rainbow Congregation, by Francis Fausto S. Tady
Home to at least 80 million Catholics, the Philippines is the only predominantly Christian country in Asia aside from East Timor. Yet beyond the title of a “Catholic nation” there are smaller and less known Christian communities.
Fruits of his labor, or lack thereof, by Hiroshi Yamauchi
Meet Mr. Kaga. A 52-year old homeless man living in Kamagasaki area in south central Osaka City, or Kama for short as locals call it.
One Last Playground, by Farhad Rahman
This is a story of a fantasy world of a group of children near the suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
REAR VIEW MIRROR
Shyue Woon, the photographer and invisible protagonist, assumes the role of a conflicted private eye in a dark homage to crime noir and pulp fiction.
“Don’t call me a legendary photographer.” An interview with Eric Peris
Eric is what many consider to be a godfather in Malaysian photography, and has sat on the regional selection panel of the Joop Swart Masterclass by the World Press Photo since 1995.
Caleb Ming, Plot
Plot is a documentary project about land spaces in Singapore. It is a photographic record of plots of open land that remain untouched in the republic.
Community Matters
What does it mean to have a photography community? And what could such a community do — on a societal level? What Photo Circle and a group of local photographers are doing in Nepal.
Photo Essay: Sewol, Remembrance and Denial, by Jun Michael Park
They have been denied. First they were denied access to truthful information. They have become invisible, and their voices, muted.
Eiffel Chong, Malaysia Misspelled
These photographs taken in Malaysia are symbols of the failure of progression I feel in this beloved country of mine.
Bicycles in Beijing , Now, by Xiaomeng Zhao
Since the new millennium, Car culture broke into China strongly and quickly, and soon became the most popular or desired mode of transportation.
India’s Dog Show Culture & Heritage, Karan Vaid
Dog shows in India have a rich and long history; the first show was held in India in 1896 and flourished under the patronage of the British colonial elite.
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.