Title: The Lion Dance Chinese New Year Celebrations is still felt around my area and this kid was pretending to be playing a lion dance and instead of using a real lion dance costume, he improvised it by using a Box and some plastic. Photographer: Kelvin Ah Kian Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kinoz/ Camera: Nikon D60 with Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5 – f/5.6
Title: Gods Within Gods Without It’s near impossible to consider life in Nepal without a consciousness of the gods all around us. From the holy cows walking the outer streets eating trash to the temples that dot the daily corners and squares, the gods know and see all. Though by monetary standards, Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, they are supremely wealthy in a fervent spirituality that rises up through its people and out into the world as warmth, honesty, and dedication. Some gods offer salvation, while others ask you to pay a price. Some remain …
This project is about an Indonesian migrant worker who has been abused during her 5 years stay in Malaysia. Her name is Nur.
Should I give up photography? Is it time to get a ‘real’ job? There has been a recent spate of discussions online about that very question. And every photographer, or artist of any genre, has at one point or another in times of difficulty pondered the idea of giving up, sometimes on numerous occasions. The answer from mentors and the supportive will usually be to ‘Never Give Up’, to follow your heart and passion, and to pursue your dreams. But how honest or realistic is it to listen to that advice and persevere in the hopes that luck and fortune will …
Masaru Goto is a Japanese photojournalist based in Bangkok, Thailand. It was his early photographs of the Cambodian war that first inspired his partner, and previously featured photo curator Yumi Goto.
In this Invisible Interview we catch up with John Clang, arguably one of Singapore’s most successful photographers.
During the 2006 General Elections, I wanted to photograph and document the rallies of the various political parties as I have at the previous two General Elections.
IPA Sunny 16 Dog Tags Giveaway 1 In our first ever giveway, we have 3 pieces of our first limited batch of Original IPA Sunny 16 Dog Tags up for grabs! The Tags are electron-plated aluminium in a black/bronze finish, with double-sided laser-marked inscriptions (SUNNY 16 Chart + Invisible Ph t grapher Asia Insignia). Each tag comes with a rubber guard silencer and a steel ball chain.
In 1997, I returned to Cambodia. At that time, rumors of a coup were going around Phnom Penh, and it finally happened in July. Following heavy street fighting in the city, the battle moved to the country’s northwest.
“What does it mean by loving oneself? I wish somebody would tell me…” …said Sayuri, before she hung up the phone.
Invisible Portrait: Scott A. Woodward Country: Singapore Website: www.scottawoodward.com Scott A. Woodward is a reportage come commercial photographer based in Singapore.
In this Invisible Interview we shine the spotlight on photo curator, editor and evangelist Yumi Goto. Yumi has got to be one of the busiest people in the current photojournalism scene in Asia.
I had never considered my family worthy of documenting, because like most people, I thought they were ordinary. A life-changing incident a few years ago changed my mind. Diagnosed with meningitis, I was in a critical coma for several days. When I reflected on the things I would lose if life ended, I realized that my family was where my sense of self, community and tradition were inherited. I had felt neither appreciation nor understanding towards them. This documentation project is an attempt to bridge my indifference, and to relook at a subject taken for granted by most. I …
Filial responsibility has always been a cornerstone of China’s traditional Confucian society. However, as the country races towards modernization, more and more Chinese are struggling to care for elderly members of their family.
Born in Taipei and raised in Hong Kong, Thomas Lee now meanders between East and West working as a photojournalist, artist and filmmaker-photographer in New York and Hong Kong. Thomas’s work has won awards and seen publication by the likes of Time Magazine, The New York Times, Rolling Stone Magazine, and The Guardian amongst others. In this exclusive Invisible Interview, Thomas reveals a bit more about himself, being a journartist as he calls it, and his aspirations “to distill the abstract and the sublime from reality, to create works that blur the line between reportage and fiction.” Invisible Ph t grapher …