― Susan Sontag
Binod Dawadi’s digital art story: Abstraction in patterns
With the advent and rocketesque development of digital media, the field of fine art has taken an interesting turn. The domain can now be explored and populated by artists who wouldn’t use an easel, brush or colour pallets, but imaginative prompts to make abstract artwork. Alongside artists are also using computers and other electronic interfaces…
Sanjukta Chatterjee’s photostory: Grasses of West Bengal: Ecological Roles and Management Challenges
Grasses, often overlooked, play a crucial role in ecosystems worldwide. With extensive root systems, they prevent soil erosion, maintain stability, and promote water retention. From sprawling plains to urban lawns, grass serves as a primary food source for many animals, sustaining entire food chains, symbolising nature’s endurance. Let’s take a look at the three types…
Narelle Noppert’s mosaic works
Editor’s Note: DoubleSpeak’s photostories’ section always nurtures any form of fine art and hence these works are published in this section. Narelle Noppert is a part of the ‘ Issy Jinarmo’ collaborative writing duo. She has also been successful as a solo writer, the last being NSW Seniors Writing Competition Book, Volume 9. This is printed on…
Krishna Negi’s photostory: The Spheres of Closure
The pulsating bluish-neon lights of the bowling alley cast a surreal glow over the polished lanes. In the corner, a group of friends under an invisible cloak laughed and cheered as they bowled their way through the evening. The atmosphere was vibrant, but beneath the surface, a sense of unease lingered. People spoke in hushed…
Alpana Mohapatra’s photostory: Pages to my Old Friend
My dearest Friend,How have you been?The world doesn’t feel the same without you here.It’s been such an overwhelming experience, so many feelings I didn’t know I was capable of feeling.Grief surrounds me like a heavy blanket, isolating me, shutting me from the outside world..it weighs me down, making it hard to breathe.There are days where…
Devansh Rathi’s photostory: Life in a Metro x 7 Ages of Man
Journeys in Transit: Capturing Shakespeare’s Seven Ages Through the Metro’s Lens with a modern twist In the bustling heart of the city, where the pulse of life reverberates through the concrete veins, I found myself contemplating the essence of human existence. It was within the metal confines of a metro carriage that I embarked on…
Deepak Srinivasan’s photostory: The Loneliness of Work
This project initially started out as an attempt to depict workaholism and the sacrifices it calls for, as well as the rewards it gives. However, in the course of this project, I discovered something much more interesting. Most of the people I thought of as ‘workaholics’ were not doing it out of a passion for…
Aakash Narayanan’s photostory: Dual (S)pace
My initial plan was to compile images that captured the “pace of life” in a city and compare it to village life. It is commonly believed that city life is very fast paced and that villages have a more relaxed and laid-back atmosphere and I wanted to explore the premise of this stereotype. When I…
Tushar Shah’s photostory: Sacred Scrub: Navigating the Labor-Intensive Tapestry of Ganga Aarti in Banaras
It was a relaxing afternoon at the ghats of Banaras, and the Ganga River flowed gracefully, carrying with it the spiritual essence of the ancient city. As I strolled along the riverbank, the rhythmic clinking of utensils caught my attention. Intrigued, I followed the sound and discovered a humble man immersed in the labour-intensive task…
Snigdhashikha Pattajoshi’s photostory: Odissi and I
Dance is not simply a detox or weight loss tool, or a hobby for me. It is a profound medium of education and personal growth. For me, the power of dance lies in its ability to teach persistence, humility, courage and gratitude. This potent mix has been my life’s magic potion – the elixir that…
N. Sukumar‘s photostory with a poem: I am the photo that lives and dies on a phone
Editor’s Note: This creative piece is categorised as a photostory because of its inherent nature. This is a piece with a photograph about the photograph. I am the photo that lives and dies on a phone. But I come from a long line of illustrious ancestors. My great, great grand uncle is on permanent display…
Irina Tall’s photostory: Where there is no humility
Where there is no humility, white snow flowers grow and mountains invisible in the darkness are just waiting for a careless companion who will turn around at the call of an old falcon imprisoned in an iron dungeon. Those who dreamed turned into birds, became completely old and flew away into the eternal dream of…
Irina Tall‘s photostory: When you stop answering questions
On the white, in the haze of the sky, black dots hid the birds, among the branches, they are silent dead and only in the heart beats there’s a secret, something that can come to life in spring … Something lived in the house, grey viscous, at the very bottom in the basement, where they…
Ruby Sharma‘s photostory: Invisible force and my sunshine folds
I'm the legacy of my mother. I have always been perfectly perfect to her and I aspired to be her. I always blush and blink with amazement whenever she says that my eyes sparkle like stars, my smile and my kindness are as beautiful as a rainbow, that I sound as a singing bird spreading…
Svetlin Trendafilov‘s painting album: Old and New
Svetlin Trendafilov is a 29-year-old artist, poet, writer, musician and photographer from the town of Kavarna, Bulgaria. Self-taught author. Works at the techniques of oils and watercolour painting, so as cartoon drawing. Author of 6 solo fine art exhibitions (2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018) and participant in both collective national and international exhibitions in Bulgaria,…
Ruby Sharma‘s photostory: Dal Lake
Dal lake, the Mahasarit (as it is called in some ancient texts) spread over 18 square kilometres comprising a part of wetlands outstretched to 21 square kilometres, including what are known as floating gardens. The lotus flowers, water lilies and Chenar trees on three sides of dal lake are its flaunting beauty spots. The tourists…
Sreedeep‘s photo-essay: In Search of the ‘Modern’ in Ray’s Unvanquished
Achievement over Ascription—the Plight of Modern Education On his return from Kashi to their village in Bengal, after his father passed away, Apu gets gravitated towards school, almost magically—like an iron-pin jumps on to a magnet. It is a very strong pull. One day, while returning after finishing his priestly obligations that are being imposed…
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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