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Sayan Mondal’s photostory: ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’, but now ‘you only need a few words’ to create one
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made remarkable progress in recent years and has started to penetrate many areas of our lives, including the world of art, apart from infamous ‘AI Camera’ advertised by many smartphone manufacturers. Recently, due to advances in research of deep neural networks in the field of machine learning models, new possibilities arise…
Zai Gulmohar‘s photostory: Sparrows
Editor’s Note: This particular appears unique it its appeal. The words weave an imagery of lulling mix of strong and slushy emotions. The words along with images carry this piece to being a photostory in its own right. Sparrows of Paris – they flutter around tourists, they carry the long-gone city into the folds of…
Rajeev Singh‘s photostory: Masan Holi
According to the holy scriptures of Hindus, there are seven sacred cities called as Sapta Puri, which one must visit to attain Moksh (Salvation). These seven holy cities are Ayodhya, Mathura, Maya (Haridwar), Kasi (Varanasi), Kanchi (Kanchipuram), Avantika (Ujjain) and Dvaravati (Dwarka). These are also considered to be the holiest Hindu Tirthas. Each city has…
Saranya Ganguly‘s photostory: The Eyes Are Not Here
The abstraction and subversion in the lines of the poem, “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot becomes the subject of the artist’s vision. The poem as we see now is not just about life after death. It is about the defeated scenes of humanity, of the lost values of human life. What the struggles of…
Debarghya Dey‘s photostory: O Mother
From his childhood days, the artist has always heard tales about Maa kali’s bravery, wisdom, fierceness and divinity. But growing up in a society where women are always expected to behave, dress up, look and speak a certain way he has realised that how this fierce form of “Adi Shakti” shatters the conventional image of…
Ishan Kohli‘s photostory: Through My Eyes
#1: Entrance When you search for the name Nithari on the internet, you will find nothing, but articles related to the serial killings that took place in the village 16 years ago. I decided to go to the village myself and have a look at how it looks like in the present day. What I…
Namrata Sarma‘s photostory: Human Stamp On A Fluid Riverine Territory – A Visual Story of Bhahmaputra’s “Char-Chaporis”
The Brahmaputra, the central river of Assam in Northeast India, is a water body known for reshaping the geography of its floodplains frequently due to ecological occurrences like the annual monsoon floods. The Brahmaputra and its tributaries braid through the State of Assam, shaping the ecological, cultural and social needs of the region and its…
Koushik Saha‘s photostory: Hungrealist
The hunger, to survive with food and shelter, the primary needs of a human life, more often than not brings us down to an animalish existence. We scavenge for food, we share spaces which are inhabitable for the human kind and yet we live. Yet those unspeakable conditions of life does not take away from…
Irina Tall‘s photostory: Kitty
Earrings hung like golden pretzels on her palm, she squeezed them and they crumbled into fragments, injured her palm and flowed out along with blood. Footsteps were heard behind. -Why do not you go? -No strength. She moved up in her chair. – Don’t, I won’t sit down, I’ll stand next to you. He handed…
Irina Tall‘s photostory: Girl And Her Dreams
Where are you? Why did we go there Echo, like a piercing bird, responded to her, began to drum on the vaults somewhere in the depths of the cave … The White Sirin was cast out on a boat, a ghost in grey robes was sitting near the karma, the face of the mask was…
Bishal Bashyal‘s photostory: Farewell
You manifest a sewist in yourself, as you knit the words with delicacy, you choose the best needle and the best threads life has offered you, you buy the best sewing machine, and every day, you pick your pieces, one by one, letter by letter, you spill the needles on your fingers, they are red and…
Muhammed Munavver‘s photostory: Poya, How much the people of Valad is connected with the river.
Once upon a time, Pharaoh, the cruel ruler of Egypt, had a dream in which a child, born under his authority, set fire to Pharaoh’s beard. Pharaoh saw in the dream that a child was born in the land to question his empire. Following this, realising that Pharaoh’s soldiers were killing all the children in…
Anannya Dasgupta‘s Photostory: When Colour Meets Paper
Note from the artist: Late in life I am discovering how fun glitter gel pens on plain white paper can be and how much more fun it is to photograph these drawings with the glitter catching the light. I do these in a sketchbook as doodles with no particular plan before starting. It is mostly…
Sreedeep‘s Photostory: Shut Doors
What’s common between these two institutions—the state and the family? Their love for order and control, perhaps—both these institutions dislike indiscipline and chaos. Their propensity to impose norms and regulations, may be—both these institutions disregard anarchy and anomaly. And their tendency to regulate private property—both these institutions lay strict rules of procuring and transferring property.…
Rohan Rathod‘s Photostory: Moods and Gaze
Melancholia in its obvious form through the artist’s image. Here the artist has isolated a feature of the subject which is her hair to suggest a feature taking precedence over others in order to make the subject fit in a bigot’s scheme of preconceptions . The house is not empty neither is it lifeless but…
Sreedeep‘s photostory: Hostel Art
It’s neither a hotel nor a house. It does not entail the strict commercial reciprocity of a hotel; or the series of obligations that characterise domesticity. A hostel, where a substantial number of the educated youth around the world find themselves for a few liminal years—is a kitsch—worthy of being observed. However, as a space,…
Adriana Rocha‘s photostory: Quintet
Note from the editor: The submission of this piece appeared unique in its conception and hence is published in the photostory section. The abstraction of the poem and the images, in an invisible overlap, creates a story that can be read in a layered manner. Therefore the poems and the images are not clubbed together…
Muhammed Munavver‘s photostory: Ludo
Ludo (Survival, hunting, competition, coexistence) Ludo’s exploration of the basic characteristics of survival, hunting, competition, and coexistence .Ludo seems to have entertained the politics of human existence from ancient times to the present. Players will be aware of hunting and survival strategies at the same time. The goal of each player is to make the…
Shubhangi Tyagi‘s photostory: Interference, Noise and Time
Artist Statement – As an Artist, I see myself as a bridge to connect different aspects in surroundings and reform them with an optimistic approach. I intend to develop a visual language which can help create a space and dialogue for the viewer to perceive the presence and correlation of different elements across varied circumstances.…
Ivan Jenson‘s photostory: Phantom of the Phantasm
From crystal clear to out-of-focus my vision is mostly hocus-pocus from my dream of spotting my perfect Pocahontas in the New York metropolis to my over abundance of inner reflection sparkling in my iris like guilty-pleasure deflection I am just overly desirous like a pre-histrionic Tyrannosaurus crushing every beautiful thing in this enchanted forest a…
Vidula Sonagra‘s photostory: Poem and Images
An old woman, sells newspapers On the pavement, near Aurora Towers shivering hands, grey hair, swollen legs have bought, from her Golden Sparrow, The Hindu, The Indian Express, Countless number of Times, Wonder if she is alive, Wonder if I will buy newspaper from her ever At the chowk, there is tailor kaka, Who have…
Sandip De‘s photostory: Kushtir Akhara
By the side of the Ganges below Howrah Bridge, at Siyaram Akhara Bayam Samity I found myself in the middle of the training of two young boys. Kushti is an evolved version of ancient wrestling practice called Mallya-yuddha (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malla-yuddha) in the Indian subcontinent. Apart from the wrestling practice, there are various forms of exercise that…
Rituparna Datta’s photostory: The palaces: history, decadence, and modern celebrations
This photo-story is an abstract take on the idea of renovating the old palaces and slipping them into the hospitality industry. The photographer captures some frames and interprets them from a unique perspective. The past hides behind some of those pillars, beneath the cornices of memories, or they are juxtaposed to the consumer’s enthusiasm as…
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