While colour photography had been around since the 1860s in some form or another, until the Eastman Kodak Company released its Kodachrome film in 1935, those wishing to capture a color photo had to deal with heavy glass plates, tripods, long exposures, and an exacting development procedure, all of which resulted in less than satisfactoryContinue reading “Kodachrome”
Category Archives: Practise 3
Emotions and Photography
“Photography isn’t looking, it’s feeling” -Don Mcullin Don McCullin is one of our best photographers in the world. Few have had such a long career; none of such diversity and critical praise. He has over the last 50 years demonstrated his unmatched skill as a photojournalist. At the same time he demonstrated an adorable artist ableContinue reading “Emotions and Photography”
The Hand that Feeds (Photo-film documentary)
The timeline: As a photographer, I am also a film editor and a filmmaker. For this video project, I have tried to produce something which is more or less like an art film to my aesthetic sense of filmmaking (not saying it is but trying to piece the elements of it). The starting is ofContinue reading “The Hand that Feeds (Photo-film documentary)”
Social Landscape
My next step in this project, is to look at unfamiliar things that are always being neglected by the eye. I’ve tried to resonate with Lee Friedlander’s social landscape photography, as he is one of my biggest inspiration in photography. He does have a remarkable ability to organise a tangled mess of seemingly insignificant stuffContinue reading “Social Landscape”
Differently Abled, Not Disabled
“Pain is Pain. Broken is Broken. FEAR is the Biggest Disability of all. And will PARALYZE you More Than Being in a Wheelchair.”― Nick Vujicic The word ‘disabled’ is commonly used for persons with different sorts of physical and mental problems identified. The phrase is not precisely wrong – circumstances which often limit normal operation inContinue reading “Differently Abled, Not Disabled”
The Hand that Feeds: A Personal Reflection
The common disability is the social factor of lack in engagment with the local community. That seems to be a “bond” of understanding or a psychological relation that I share with them. But throughout the years I have learn and imitate to adapt within society. I have always been a spectator of society. I feelContinue reading “The Hand that Feeds: A Personal Reflection”
What is your name?
Portraits: Identity