― Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
Subha Bhadra’s mini album: Bengali Snippets
The deities share the same journey as that of a river. Celebrated, wasted, humiliated in desolation and yet revered. The Bhāgirathi of Kolkata-Howrah breathes her people’s dreams and hopes. The loneliness of the sky can only be matched by the fatigue of the flying wings and the chaos of our civilisation. Yet they all perhaps…
Saranya Ganguly’s mini album: Hills, rocks and a brook
Most of her day Saranya remains occupied with her job as an editor, but her love for painting, sketching and photography gets better of her often. She is an artist trying to dabble in different styles. She exhibits her work from time to time and has participated in groups shows at prestigious galleries across the…
llfa Ijlal’s mini album: World’s eighth wonder
Photographer’s note: These photographs were captured by me at my visit to the Sigiriya ancient rock fortress which is situated in the Matale district of Sri Lanka. Considered as the world’s eighth wonder, Sigiriya is a blend of both nature and architecture. It was regarded as a monastery in the 3rd century BC, and it…
Ankan De’s mini album: Shadows on the pitch of black
Photographer’s note: For shadows to exist, there has to be light. Greater the intensity, sharper the edges. They are never scarce during the day, neither are they at night. As they attempt to catch up with the subject, there is a delicate dance between the subject, the source (of light) and textured surfaces that await…
Greeshum Panesar’s mini album: Monochrome Snippets
Artist’s Note: Before the seven colours of rainbow, the world was perhaps a mix of black and white. That’s how the photographer wants to look at the world sometimes. Some moments with such a thought found an expression through these photos. Greeshum is a teacher by profession and as a person she is the quintessential…
Amartya Krishna Deb’s mini album: Kolkata in Grayscale
Photographer’s Note: Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal and the cultural hub of India, is a city that never ceases to amaze and inspire. The city is a melting pot of history, culture, art, and religion, where the old and the new, the rich and the poor, the sacred and the secular coexist in a…
Saranya Ganguly‘s album of inkwork: Findings in splashes
The swash and beat, the dissolution and the illusion, the colours of known and the unknown shapes, eyes where petals could have been, heart that could have been a womb, rebellion that bleeds, curls and locks of roses and where we stand, what we see, what we feel and perhaps how we find ourselves in…
Ann Privateer‘s mini album of paintings: Impressions
Editor’s Note: This album is not of photographs but paintings. The impressionistic images carry the essence of perceiving somethings through their characteristic features, colours and interaction with the audiences. Ann Privateer grew up in the Midwest and now lives in California. She is a poet, artist, and photographer. Some of her recent work has appeared…
Clarissa Cervantes‘ mini album: By your side
My silhouette, your silhouette, Our shadows during sunset… Dark on the inside, light on the outside… My silhouette, our silhouette, together we rise and shine. Clarissa Cervantes is an outdoor travel photographer. Clarissa also supplies freelance travel articles on a variety of travel destinations for newspaper, blogs, websites and magazines such as USA Today and…
Mathias Nyberg‘s mini album: Old and New and their worlds coming together
Photographer’s Note: The photographer thinks that one way to engage the old and new is when the two worlds are made to almost playfully collide for the purpose of catching up. The kids have all there stuff and toys all the time at home, but when they visit their grandmother who is 92 years of…
Alexey Pehov‘s mini album: Old faces and New Faces
Photographers Note: The expressions age as well, from young ones to the old ones. And as they do they store stories in the wrinkles and folds of the face and body. Alexey is a 50 years old photographer, living in Russia. He loves to travel and has been doing photography for more than two years,…
Mayuresh Vijay Mane‘s mini album: Samsara
Photographer’s Note: The photogrpaher hs seen farming by doing them in a very harsh conditions. Now when his generation is moving to the cities to earn a bread and lifestyle small farmers still struggle to make ends meet, even today. In one picture his uncle and aunt were discussing about drought conditions and field crop (early…
Meera Usha Krishnan‘s mini album: How does one beat the cold?
Photographer’s Note : The photographer clicked these images on her long trip to Uttarakhand with a friend. Even though it was very cold all along, one day it snowed profusely. They were locked in for almost two days and then decided to go on a walk later to see how the town adjusted to the…
Meera Usha Krishnan‘s mini album: Sea/See Patterns
Photographer’s Note : These are images from the photographer’s visit to Bhuigaon Beach near Vasai. The vastness of the space took her by surprise and as she kept strolling, the patterns created and the mood set during the sunset evoked a subliminal feeling in her. It is a rare sight to have land with nothing…
Krishn Kumar Upadhyay‘s mini album: Com-muter
Photographer’s Note: These photos are taken with a mobile-phone camera while commuting through the streets of the national capital of India. The photographer aims to juxtapose images and scenes with contemporary digital-filter-editing methods to create a sense of belonging and detachment at the same time. The images are not supposed to soothe the eyes, instead…
Sayan Mondal‘s mini album: Close To Our Birds
Photographer’s Note: The photographs in this ‘Close to Our Birds’ series aim to capture the intimate expressions of a variety of birds, reflecting their natural flair and attitude. The lively and boundless spirit of birds always have inspired us either by their eye-catching colour, musical tone, or more often than not by their flamboyant diving…
Purna Mukherjee‘s album: Walking In Japan
Photographer’s Note: These photos were taken in Japan. Japan is all about art, religion, culture and of course cats with an endless curiosity for the future. It’s a perfect place for a harmonious existence of the old and the new. Japanese people know that to grow they must respect their past and make room for…
Mathias Nyberg‘s mini album: Stand Behind A Child
Photographer’s note: The children have the most curious gaze. They experience the new like no other, fuelled by their inherent curiosity. Following their gaze often brings a new perspective to an otherwise ordinary scene. The simple hole becomes the door to a fantasy land, a wooden door becomes the rabbit hole of the mad-hatter. The…
Satadru Wrik Sen‘s mini album: The Festive Preparations
Photographer’s Note: Durga Puja is undoubtedly the grandest festival for the Bengali people. It’s a season of forgetting all woes and coming together to celebrate the homecoming of the Goddess of power. The preparations have many stages, one being the making of the idol by master craftsmen. The photographer catches the glimpses of those in…
Alexey Pehov‘s mini album: Expressions Passing By
Photographer’s Note: The photographs in this album tries to collect several expressions that give meaning to emotions, instinctive responses and unnoticed pauses that we have sound us as we walk down through a stream of people. as a whole they speak of our collective memory, our cumulative experience of seeing people, faces and their surroundings at the same time.…
Phil Temples’ mini album: Abandoned Industry
Photographer’s Note: Phil took these photographs while trespassing on the property of an abandoned stone cutting company in March, 2005 near Bloomington, Indiana. They were shot using an inexpensive Canon PowerShot G2 camera. He found the whole scene so bizarre and surreal. The company had abandoned an entire facility with expensive equipment and allowed Mother Nature to reclaim the property—both…
Shamin Kulkarni‘s mini album: People and Spaces
The relationship of people with urban spaces can be explored to geometric symmetry or the apparent lack of it. It is different in different spaces and light. The photographer captures a few such instances where the human habitation of such spaces create a layered expose of our urban existence. There is a tension which is…
Ana Paula Di Berardo‘s mini album: Scenes in Grayscale
Ana Paula Di Berardo is a Brazilian Photographer. She participated in exhibitions and photographic competitions in Brazil and around the world in countries like Italy, Norway and Spain. She Graduated in Photography from Senac (2014-2016). Basic and Advanced Photography Course at Foto Cine Clube Bandeirantes in 2013, studied at the Portuguese Institute of Photography in Lisbon…
Ana Stjelja‘s mini album: Trees of Light and Shade
The photographer catches the light and shadows through the trees of Muscat, Oman. The simplistic images could be the moment in our busy mind that demands our reflective pause. Her album reiterates the essential idea of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – “In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.” …
Arnab Chaudhuri‘s mini album: Humpbacks of Newfoundland
Note from the Photographer: Not many people know about Newfoundland, the easternmost island province of Canada. But it so happens that it is truly a paradise. One of the most unique attractions of Newfoundland during summer months is humpback whale. They come in great numbers to feed on capelins, and their playful acrobatics is a…
Soumen Mandal‘s mini album: Snoopy-ing
Note from the Photographer: Some of the decorated snoopy sculptures from “An adventure with Dogs Trust and Snoopy” in Cardiff. This is an ongoing street exhibition to celebrate Dog Trust’s new rehoming centre in Cardiff, UK. The sculptures are sponsored by various entities like, local businesses, individuals etc. They show the wealth of Welsh artistic…
Sandip De‘s mini-album: A study in desolation
This mini album captures two completely different spaces, one a train station and another an old (almost historical) guest house in Kolkata. The emptiness in the train station during the times of travel restriction and the melancholia of the old pillars and verandas of the guesthouse carry the empty sounds of people who could have…
Arnab Chaudhuri‘s mini-album: The Northern Lights
I have never seen the northern lights before. But, when we travelled to Yukon during autumn, 2021, we were excited about the possibility. Haines Junction, the tiny hamlet in Yukon where we stayed, is about 61 degrees north and thus, ideal for aurora activity. And luck was on our side. On one clear night, we…
Jeremy Piloquet‘s mini-album: Urban Parenthesis
The artists claims that there’s no words to describe this work. Simply he sees and he can straight away imagine what we’ll be the result. Almost always in black and white, Jeremy devotes himself to the streets but not only with instantaneous shots, a realistic and faithful rendering without deep photographic transformations. All his work…
Soumen Mandal‘s mini album: Cycles in confounded crisis
Soumen’s mini-album is created with photographs of vandalised or partially-stolen bi-cycles from streets of Europe. The comical existence of these unfortunate cycles speaks a lot about the practices which are seen in the streets of first world countries. It goes without saying that the agonies of the proprietors of these bi-cycles are often found matching…
Sanket Kulkarni‘s mini album: Moods in abstraction
Photographer’s note: The photographer wants to explore various moods and even action words through the abstraction of artistic composition of a camera lens. The digital form is used to create the illusory and even morphed frames of colour, object and time which captures the idea of such abstraction. Sanket works as a freelance film…
Arnab Chaudhuri‘s mini album: Frozen in time
Photographer’s word: This is one of the places where you feel like time has come to a halt, a place where there is nothing but pristine wilderness, a place where ancient modes of living make more sense than the illusions of modern civilisation. This is Kluane National Park, Yukon, nestled in the northwest corner of…
Hrishikesh Daud‘s mini album: What we lack in adulthood
Photographer’s words: These are the Images from my trip to Kashmir in September 21. Arhaan is the name of the little boy in these images whom I captured playing alongside the small river of Pahalgam. His sister was searching for him and came to take him home. In between he kept playing on the tree…
Saranya Ganguly‘s mini album: Holding my breath in silence
Photographer’s words: If I add words, I will end up leaving them with wounds…these pictures loosely ties few of the fleeting moments where I’ve held my breath in silence and longing. That’s it, that’s all about it. Saranya works as a catalogue executive and off the long office hours, she tries to dabble with sketches…
Arupratan Ghosh’s mini album: On the road
Arupratan Ghosh has been known among the literati as a poet and a translator for long. He also takes interest in taking photographs of nature and people at various places he has travelled to. Note: The captions are done by Pritha Chattopadhyay
Romit Gangopadhyay‘s mini album: Little moments between the shoot
These images are lensed from behind the lens (of the principal camera). A docu-fiction on the massive vaccination drive initiated and being meticulously conducted by National Health Mission (Bhopal) in the state of MP, so that vaccine reaches all the remote corners of the state. Where even vehicle doesn’t reach across hilly terrain, where people…
Saurabh Agarwal‘s mini album: The great night
Street photography has 2 categories mainly, ‘Art style’ and ‘Documentary style.’ The photographer was always more towards the art side of the style. This mini album is one of his initial attempts in documentary style street photography. Note from the photographer: I was there in the city of Varanasi, in the northern Indian state of…
Jalan J S’s mini album: From bed to road
The journey from the lazy love of the bed to a space of reflection and repose is what the photographer wishes to convey through this album. There is a space that can never be filled and can be seen from different angles, heights or even in different light. At the end it is the corner…
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