Emerging photographer winner of a Second Place IPA Awards 2015, of a Third Place IPA Awards 2015 , a Silver Medal Prix de la Photographie (Px3) 2015 and a Bronze Medal Prix de la Photographie (Px3) 2015, as well as being finalist and several honorable mentions at other International awards.
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According to Hindu mythology 'Kalappali' is a ritual, which means sacrificing in the battlefield for ensuring victory. It was believed that whoever performed this sacrifice first and with his life in front of goddess Kali will ensure victory of his side on the battlefield.
Cage Fighting is gaining each day more and more fans around the world. Due to spectacular arenas all covered with wire, from which the fighters cannot leave, and more violent blows than those used in boxing, this is the fighting of the new generation.
The fate of the Omo Valley was sealed in 2006 when, upstream of the valley’s arterial Omo river, the Ethiopian government began constructing the ‘Pride of Ethiopia’
This series documents the traces of aging that affected my grandfather over the last 6 years. I quietly observed his daily activities and focused on the physical indicators of the time passed.My grandfather, 89 years old, listens to the radio in his bedroom, as he never turns on the TV during the day.
Somewhere in Russia, Village First of May
Cold wind, mud, ice. The land is covered with silence in "Piervo Maiscki" village (First of May), a remote village in Northern Russia, far thousand kilometers from Moscow.
I also note that most mannequins are manufactured locally, and I spot several places of handcrafted mannequins, by the road. I want to understand why. Why are locally made mannequins in white ? in an african country as Ivory Coast?
I think it all comes from being the north but nobody knows, originally from colder climates that make my thoughts and ways of working a solid foundation and ideology in forms. I guess that's why I like to do certain kinds of stories.
Nepal was hit by two strong earthquakes on 25. April and 12. May 2015 and during the following months by hundreds of aftershocks. 14 hilly and mountainous districts in the central Northern parts of Nepal were heavy affected.
Moacir’s dreams stray from typical boyish fantasies of superheroes and pirates. He wants nothing more than to escape his Nicaraguan life of poverty and abuse to live the American dream.
Bodhgaya is the most important place of pilgrimage for Buddhists in India. It is said that the Buddha has obtained Enlightenment there under what became known as the Bodhi Tree.
The land of high passes in Ladakh, India in the shadow of the Himalayas impregnates nature in its most immaculate form. The boundless beauty of the mystic peaks, fathomless vastness, cloud shadows playing hide n seek on mountains all during the day
The small african nation of Burundi has been gripped by violence since April 2015 as when of Pierre Nkurunziza’s announcement of the intention to run for a third-term in office.
Gazi to Gezi - a stone's throw away" explores the poetry of a nationwide revolt in Istanbul, Europe's largest city. An explosive mix of the city’s inhabitants come together to fight the police and barricade themselves into one of the metropolis' few remaining green spaces, Gezi Park.
This is a series of portraits and general shots of the Tsaatan and Mongolian people who live in and around the forests of the East Taiga region of Khovsgol province in northern Mongolia.
The history of Kumartuli is difficult to trace as there are several stories about the origins of the place .It is surmised that most of the potters from surrounding areas of Krishnanagar
This project is about an elderly woman from Russia affected by cancer. For several years she had been struggling her disease. She received treatment inhospitals, got several courses of chemotherapy
Understated, charming and poetic, the Bulgarian countryside is one of quiet isolation, almost suspended in time. The natural spa, found on the edge of the Black Sea is a rustic,no-frills afair.
Also known as Thai boxing, Muay Thai is considered as the national sport in Thailand. Organized around monetary bet, the winners are rewarded by fame and fortune and successful fighters are being treated like celebrities.
When I moved to Bangalore in 2005, without a local number to make calls on, I was dependent on the yellow phone for communication. So was my wife, who used these phones to call me whenever she ran out of mobile prepaid limit.
That is how my grandma used to answer with a smile on her lips when I asked her how long it used to take to get from alghero to olmedo at the beginning of her adolescence.
War Landscapes is a project based on an exhibition and a photo book with about 100 black and white images taken in fifteen years of work in major conflict areas of the world.
We want to be normal (sane) like you. This is what they wanted from me from their world. I want to be normal, normal and normal. These are the words of the pure heart. Words coming from mind which we call to be not in control.
A tiny happy place called ' Sondeshkhali 'the name was notified by the locals,Unexpectedly i went to that place where people are heavenly live their life, basically i was about to go there seraching for to see'Tiger'or 'Deer' because the place in the sundarban Area
Camino, is a travel series which deals with the subjects of solitude, spirituality and hardship. It mainly tires to capture the beauty of the journey and least of all focuses on the actual destination of the trip, Santiago.
For the Europeans or the North Americans, being the by far most frequent travellers seem to be amazed, astonished and fascinated by the simple life style, paired with an ongoing healthy approach to life.
The White Cliffs are made of white chalk. The chalk is just like the kind used on chalkboards. Long ago, the whole place was at the bottom of a sea. Many tiny sea creatures died. They left their bones and shells there.
In Columbia the cocaine business has become less important than in past years. It is the land now, with its enourmous riches hidden in the subsoil, and the consequent lucrative management of extraction, inflaming economic interest and violence.
Storytelling tradition has found multitude of vernacular expressions in Indian life. Patachitra is a storytelling tradition of Medinipore region of Bengal in eastern India. In this unique art form, oral tradition meets the visual structures of a narrative.
Photography is like therapy. Exactly so the characteristics of 'It's not forever' series can sound, where the author as the mother of a suckling without physical possibility to exist in the parallel world constructs it with the camera assistance
Devotees from approximately 150 countries, including the host country, Bangladesh, attend the three-day Ijtema seeking divine blessings. The last day witnesses the maximum crowd with people flocking to the prayer ground for the "Akheri Munajat".
“It took a catalytic moment in my life to take my photography from a hobby to something I do every day,” Robin Macmillan says. The Canadian photographer was just 39 years old when she received the life-changing diagnosis of stage-2 breast cancer.
‘Hola Mohalla’, is a three day event celebrated at the Sikh shrine ‘Keshgarh Sahib’ in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab, India.
Disappearing Home is a portrait of the East End's English community at the start of the new century: it documents and explores its culture and traditions. The project depicts a glimpse into the everyday lives of the English people of East End
“Quinceañera” also called « fiesta de quince años » is the celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday in parts of Latin America and marks the transition from childhood to young womanhood.
Grounded in the ideals of a counter-cultural past and freed from the forced constraints of a conventional camp experience, these photographs explore a society of teenagers empowered through otherwise impossible freedoms.
I traveled mostly through the north. Usually by myself. There's no good photography near a bunch of tourists. It's more of a wandering searcher kind of type of process. A sort of Zen-like meditation on finding beauty in unexpected places around you.
'Chau' is a traditional dance drama popular in the Chotanagpur plateau area of Eastern India. In 2010 Chau dance is inscribed in UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
“BEYOND” is an exclusive documentary featuring photographer Joey L. Set in Varanasi, India. The documentary by filmmaker Cale Glendening follows Joey and his assistant Ryan as they complete their latest photo series- “Holy Men.”
How many Brazilians, as happens all over the world, pay to have sex in brothels, low-class bars, luxury hotels, night clubs, in the alleyways of the favelas or even in a car in front of the Copacabana Palace Hotel in Rio de Janeiro?
Narayan Tushar Kaudinya lives as a Filmmaker and documentary photographer. He did independent theatre and worked as an illustrator. While travelling, also learning about language and society, he taught children in northern Indian states in winters.
Not far from the iconic city of Carrara, in the heart of the Apuan Alps, and uncommonly for Italian expectations in this field, the history of this valley and its force break down any stereotypes about the world of marble, about quarriers and those who live there.
The ecstatic Gomira dance masks of Dinajpur district have ensued from animistic practices of the Desi and Poli communities of the Rajbangshis. Every village has its own Gomira dance troupe.
My wife is from Habana and I met her in Santiago in 2000. She left the island in 1996 and never get back till summer of 2005. That was when I was able to get to Cuba with her and our 2 sons. She had not seen her father for 9 years, so it was a very touching moment when she met him in habana airport as we land.
Photographs were taken during 2014-2015 in an asylum in Belgrade, Serbia. Residents belong to different age groups, corporal and mental competence. Common to all is that they were brought to the borders of existence, some of them are on the boundary between life and death
Josef Stalin deported the Ingush people to Siberia and Central Asia from their homes in Russia's North Caucasus in 1944. The Soviet dictator inflicted such harrowing displacements upon a number ethnic minorities deemed suspicious during the Second World War.
My passion to create is driven by my bicultural background as an Iranian-American. My work is a reflection of culture as well as the self, pursuing distinct and obscure emotions in an attempt to create a narrative and connect with humanity.
