Colin Pantall on Max Pinckers “Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty”
Belgium – What do you do if you love somebody but your love is forbidden by your parents, by your uncles, by your priest, by your community? What do you do if your family imprison you or beat you or kill you rather than let you follow your heart and marry for love? What do […]
Adil Hasan: When Abba was Ill
India – Mahmood Hassan passed away in November 2012 in Jamshedpur, his hometown, where he had worked with Tata Steel for 21 years. Adil is Mahmood Hassan’s son. He is a photographer based in New Delhi. He shot these photographs over 6 months as he came to terms with his father’s cancer. His old film cameras […]
WORKSHOPS with Cristina de Middel and Ricardo Cases
Organized by EMAHO and IED MADRID June 19-22nd June,2014 India Shooting, Editing and Photo-book Making with Cristina de Middel and Riccardo Cases The recent success of the Spanish photobook has produced much curiosity and a quest for the reasons for this development. In addition to the international prizes for books by Spanish authors […]
Stalin K: “Without activism, there would be no journalism, and no photo series”
India – Documentary filmmaker, media trainer and human rights activist, Stalin K co-founded the international community media organisation, Video Volunteers. The organisation provides people in the underdeveloped areas of India with the means to develop video journalism skills and enables them to uncover underreported stories from their own communities. In a recent venture with Magnum Foundation, the organisation delved […]
Patrick Brown: Trading to Extinction
Thailand – From the pristine jungles of Cambodia to the great national parks of India and Nepal, Asian wildlife is being plundered on an unprecedented scale. Every year, it is estimated that up to 30,000 primates, 5 million birds, 10 million reptile skins and 500 million tropical fish are traded. Patrick Brown has been photographing […]
Samar Singh Jodha: OUTPOST
India – OUTPOST is a visual disquisition on spontaneous individual expression in a rapidly homogenising global culture. Samar Singh Jodha deploys a pictorial trope of discarded containers fashioned into habitat by miners in India’s pristine northeast. Artist Samar Singh Jodha’s latest enterprise is a visual disquisition on a global culture where individual aesthetic notions are […]
Momo Okabe: “I truly wanted to destroy everything I had”
Japan – Momo Okabe’s photographs depict the bare situation. Be it the sexual act, a wasteland, or the wake of a tsunami, the images Okabe presents speak directly, without device. There is a vitality to her practice, so much so that she notes that the process of constructing her book Bible saved her, nominated for Kassel Photobook […]
Island in the Stream – Dorian Francois
India – Stretched out in the middle of the holy Brahmaputra river, which flows through the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, lies the world’s largest inhabited river island – Majuli. The island is the home to many ancient monasteries whose traditions relate to a particular branch of Hinduism, called “sattriya”, which, over time, has gradually […]
Max Pinckers – The Fourth Wall (2012)
India – A photograph of two men in uniform climbing over a fence, escaping. A re-enactment of a moment that just passed. They do it over again with great pride and pleasure. Later I read an article in the newspaper. Two men use sleep-inducing gas to rob a struggling actress in her home; the same […]
Folk Fantastica – The Turbans
The Turbans is an international musical collective travelling the world on a quest to discover and create great music, starting in Nepal in 2009 when classical violinist Darius Luke Thompson and guitarist Oshan Mahony played together for the first time in Kathmandu. They travelled by bicycle to India where they formed a band that has […]
Lone Ranger – Alastair Humphreys
England – Alastair Humphreys is a British adventurer and author. Named as a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year for his inspiring work on promoting the concept of Microadventures, his expeditions are numerous. He has cycled 74000kms around the world in 4 years, walked along the entire length of river Kaveri in India, rowed across […]