Friday, 24. October 2008, 12:36:41
The most quirky image that one could think of -I have come across this on the Internet.I am unable to locate the photographer.Whoever it was,it is one hell of a creative picture.A perfect one for the graffitti on the wall and the delicious presence of the dog alongside the boy when the latter is just doing it.
Friday, 4. April 2008, 08:56:13
By Atul Loke
"Inside hell"- Abdul Wahab inside his burnt house in Ramlal ki Choli, Ahmedabad, during the Gujarat riots
A powerful image of the carnage and the riots that took place in Ahmedabad following the communal mayhem The man and his child are staring through what remained of the holes of their windows while the woman is salvaging for something in the kitchen.
The contrast of the green walls of this family with the black sooty patches caused by the fire brings into sharp focus the brutality of the carnage ,the destruction of the domestic peace of this ordinary Muslim family .
http://outlookindia.com/images/photoessays/Burnthouse_gujaratriots_20071015.jpg(courtesy:Outlook India Magazine)
Friday, 4. April 2008, 08:46:33
Original BBC picture :
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44538000/jpg/_44538097_pakistan_milk_466ap.jpgI love this BBC picture of an old man stirring the milk for its wonderful perspective. The background stone wall with its delicious brown hues with a graduated tint has brought in sharp focus the old man’s face lit up partially in the ambient light. The quiet dignity of the man is striking.
Thursday, 11. October 2007, 14:22:39
A girl in Afganistan near the door of her house' -A BBC photo
News in Pictures: 10th October,2007
The girl stands there ,pretty and innocent, against the stark background of a mud wall .The textures of the mud wall and the ancient wooden door are wonderfully captured . The colour of the mud wall rises in a graduated fashion from a dull Grey to a bright yellow and a similar graduated colour marks the broken door and its frame. The impact of the bright little girl standing on the door is truly amazing.
Thursday, 11. October 2007, 14:17:22
Fishermen in Srilanka" by Steve McCurry
The most interesting thing about the picture is ,apart from the exoticism of the Srilankan sea-scape,the beauty and symmetry of the human form represented in the picture. The figures of the fishermen are etched against the sea-sky in almost geometric shapes. Mark the angle of the camera which captures the perfect symmetry of the body postures of the fishermen perched on the poles. A good photograph celebrates the beauty of the human form as it operates on the elements of nature .
Wednesday, 26. September 2007, 02:01:23
A sugar factory in Pakistan
A lovely shot.Apart from the atmosphere,what is of interest is the drama of human actions that the picture captures so well.Two of the men are stewing the hot syrup while the steam rising almost smells of sweet sugar and one of them is watching the liquid perhaps for its viscosity while the other is stirring it with a ladle.A third man is at the doorway ,turning away from the hot fumes perhaps and he is a mere observer not participating in the action. Beautiful.The photo speaks like a poem.
Friday, 24. August 2007, 01:45:58
There is a particular type of photographing which I like most.This is the photographing of a particular spatial situation consisting of several elements of living and non-living things acting out together in a single performance .In people photography we tend to focus on individual participants without looking at the overall functioning of all of them as participants in a spatial situation.I have tried photographing the marketplace ,the temple precincts,religious congregations etc.where such possibilities exist.But at the symbolic level where different elements participate to convey an emotive meaning or a subtle suggestion the situations available to us are much fewer because the symbolism is an after-event usually depending upon what the photographer likes to construct and is purely a matter of chance that such a fortuitous combination of the different elements is available to you.
Raghu Rai's photograph of the religious ceremony of the immersion of the Goddess Durga in the river Ganga in Kolkata is an outstanding example.(See the photograph below :On the banks of the Ganga )
Here the number of elements is unusually large but nearly all of them contribute to the spatial situation of the photograph.There is the river,the boat, the tree , the cow, the image of the Goddess and a woman participating in the situation.The beauty of the photograph arises largely from the different elements acting out together in a unique spatial situation.
Saturday, 18. August 2007, 03:04:57
The cow-herd
www.photonet.com
Magical ! Check out the entire portfolio of Ramaiah Gidda .The grainy photographs ,in black and white, are sheer poetry ! The wistfulness seen in most of the photos does not appear to be merely a product of technical manipulation but a candid shot with a realism close to my own experiences of the rural living. Much of the poetry of the photos stems from the exoticism of such themes to a Western reader not familiar with the Indian milieu but to us who are brought upon such experiences the poetry still exists in the form of a nostalgic return to our childhood in rural India , more particularly in the villages of Andhra pradesh which form the backdrop of these pictures.
Tuesday, 14. August 2007, 00:10:21
On the banks of the Ganga
(Photograph by Raghu Rai)
There is the Ganges and the tree and the cow , a boat in the river, the clay statue of Goddess Durga awaiting ceremonial immersion after 9 days of worship. Everything revolves around our way of life ,our religion ,our beliefs, the fantastic notions about life inherited as a part of the shared consciousness.The cow is sacred ,the Mother Goddess is sacred and the Ganga is sacred ;everything here is a symbol of a cherished way of life .The beauty of the picture is enhanced by the symbiotic manner in which different elements act on each other.
("A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever"-Quote from Raghu Rai)
Monday, 13. August 2007, 00:51:10
The old woman -A photo by Michael Ging
(A note by the Photographer
I first saw this woman at St. Peters square in Rome during the day.There were people who would come up to her and kneel with her to pray and then they would give her some money. I did not think this was to time, or place to photograph her, so I went on.The woman was very small (about 3 ft tall) and had clubbed feet. I never saw her face. As I was going to dinner as the sun was setting I was walking down this street as she was walking up. The light was beautiful giving texture to the cobble stone street. I took 4 photos as she passed me. I then gave a shop keeper who was watching me photograph her 5 euros ,which he gave to her. I felt with the beautiful light that God wanted me to take this photo.I do not mean this in a religious sense ,sometimes when I am taking a photo everything goes perfect and you get this great feeling that you did things right.It was like because I did not take the photo in the square ,I was given another chance,with better light
The photograph has happened exactly as good photographs do -not by design but by a combination of fortuitous circumstances as though what the artist has said about God wanting him to do it is really true. The light is wonderful and the tonal quality is delicious.As one of the commentators has said ,the photograph has a minor irritant -the cutting off of the door but in the face of so much beauty that is nothing.The sensitivity of the artist is clearly reflected in the way he has responded to the theme with a lot of humility.
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