Located more than 30km from the center of Hanoi Capital, Quang Phu Cau Village was formed over a century ago and is the only village to make incense and incense foot in Hanoi.
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One of the most popular careers in My Dong village, Hai Phong – Vietnam, was iron casting, that traditional craft that was handed down for hundred years ago.
Mythologically the Gods are believed to descend to earth to take bath(snan ) on the holy Ganges on this day. Dev Deepavali or the Diwali of the Gods is the festival of Kartik Poornima celebrated in Varanasi,Uttarpradesh in India.
I find the void subjects fascinating and strange, as there is no sense of who they are, but an aspect of them like where they were or what they were doing in the past.
I made this body of work while wandering across the streets of Tel Aviv in the late summer nights. This is preferable time for a night bird like me. I try to reveal the magic which is over the city in the night -streets and moving objects look so different than during the day.
Yuan Tang is a Chinese-born multidisciplinary artist who moves freely within photography, video, installation, and print. She received MFA in Photographic & Electronic Media from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017. Currently, Yuan works as a photographer and news photo editor in New York City. Yuan began creating “Comfort Zone” in 2021.
As time goes on, I realized that it was no longer easy for me to conceal my emotions. They are always abundant but restrained. Being with myself disengages me temporarily from reality and immerse me in the universe of emotions.
It was in July, 2007 when my flight took off for Kathmandu on a sunny afternoon from Delhi. It was my first visit to any foreign land and I was nervous. I was equally excited to visit a foreign land and that too Nepal.
hhath is an ancient Hindu Vedic festival historically native to the Indian subcontinent, more specifically, the Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and the southern parts of Nepal and West Bengal.
Vasuki Tal via Nandanvan is a trek with unique visuals where we walked over Gongotri glaciers and later Choyurangi Glacier for miles & set up camp at the foot of towering Himalayan peaks
This collection consists of images that are straight photography, all works exist in a space between the real and imagined.
Durga Puja is the biggest festival for Bengalis worldwide and it all starts with the idols from these narrow lanes of Kumartuli in Kolkata. Kumartuli, perhaps one of the most incredible places to visit in Kolkata.
Sentiments around ‘a sense of belonging’ have been following me for the larger part of my life - this question of where is it that I truly belong?
This series emerged from frustration and desperation. It took birth on its own as if the existence was there but denied consciously. Since we never care for our blind spot and pretend to be smart in every move, it rests there.
Noir, film noir and neo noir are my favorite genre in movies. Noir is something more than just visual style, low key lighting or compositions breaking all the rules.
I am passionate about photography and art in general since I was a child. Every time I had the opportunity to go to a new place like a school trip or with my parents, I took my small camera, and I captured everything.
They look beautiful, gracious and sometimes mysterious! They are lonely cottages carrying a bag full of stories! I first met them in India, my own country.
Dunescapes by Mohammed Arfan Asif’s project was selected and published in our print edition 17. Dunescapes is an ongoing project for more than a quarter of a century in an expanse called, The Empty Quarter in the United Arab Emirates
I was diagnosed positive with Covid 19 along with symptoms of headache, complete loss of smell, coughing and a lot of tiredness on May 2nd 2021. Life changed somewhat and I shifted myself to an isolated stay in the apartment in Newtown, Kolkata.
Amid this Pandemic when we all went into lockdown it was a mixed feeling of anxiety, fear and monotony. Being a photographer it was sometimes very frustrating to sit indoors though it was essential for the current condition.
The second wave of Corona virus in India has fallen so heavily that it exceeded daily infection and total infection rate of first wave in the year 2020 and so far highest in the world.
Uncertainty and Distress in Myanmar Migrant Workers Behind Thailand Lockdown. They Are Out of Work and left with no Options During COVID-19
Japanese Aquariums is a journey into some of my oldest, most treasured childhood memories. Whenever I visited my grandparents in the small, northern Japanese city of Otaru, my grandfather, a high school teacher and an enormous influence in my life, would take me to the aquarium.
Mountainous Adjara is one of the most distinguished regions of Georgia. The traditions and the old ways of life have been preserved to this day in this area. The isolation and alienation of inhabitants of this mountainous area has been an ongoing issue for a long time.
Allahabad is one of the oldest cities in India. It is delineated in old sacred texts as ‘Prayag’, ‘Teertharaj’ or ‘Prayagraj’ and is considered to be the holiest of pilgrimage centres of India.
In the remote village of Yar-Sale in Northern Siberia live a group of elderly women. They were once part of a nomadic community of reindeer herders.
In earlier days, cloths were made through manual process in India. Yarn was made from raw cotton through a handmade machine called Charka which was made of bamboo and wood.
Gangasagar, formally known as the Sagar Island, is a renowned Hindu Pilgrim place situated about 150 km south of Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal. The City of Joy acts as the transit point and accommodates all those headed for Gangasagar.
My project on the Brick Kiln Workers was an off-shoot from my bigger project on Women Workers in the informal sector. It came about while travelling to document women workers when I got drawn by black plumes billowing from large chimneys across from a farm.
As an old saying about Ladakh goes, "a land is so barren and the passes so high that only the best friends or fiercest enemies would want to visit us.”
In my photography, my personal experiences often motivate me to start creating works. Eventually, it leads me to the fundamental theme of our life and I want to express what I think and get from there.
The Hornbill festival is one of the favourite festivals of Nagaland. The Hornbill festival is celebrated in the first week of December every year in Kohima, the capital city of Nagaland.
What would the world look like if human expressions could be suppressed? Sometimes we are really infused by our fantasies.
This is what I have to do now with my life. When this pandemic began in 2020, I lost control like people around the world. I talked with my parents more than ever and shared almost all my time with them.
Since a very young age, I was fascinated by stories of the Silk Route that passed through many countries stretching from China to parts of Europe.
Red Illuminates, is a multimedia work comprising still and moving images that explores the concept of culture in socialist countries and how loyalty to the state is cultivated.
The Himalayas are a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan plateau. This is also, by definition, the name of the vast mountain chain, which comprises the Himalayas, the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, and a number of small ranges ranging from the Pamir Knot.
Parang La Trial, famous for mountain features, colors, patterns and unique fossils. Participated in Sept’2005, almost fifteen years back.
As a part of my job responsibilities as an Analyst, I have been working on a few research white papers on "Risks and Impact of Coronavirus Globally in coming times".
In George Orwell’s 1984, an unperson is someone who has been vaporized, whose record has been erased. Similarly, the North Korean defectors that Tim Franco chose to portray have decided to disappear, fleeing sometimes for ideological reasons and often out of despair.
In the Soma region of Fukushima prefecture, there is a traditional Samurai festival called “Soma Nomaoi”, which is said to have continued for more than 1000 years.
Durga puja in West Bengal is one of the famous festivals of India which witness large public gathering every year. The year 2020 will be remembered for the curse of Corona Virus pandemic. More than 1.2 lakh people have already lost their life in this pandemic. India is among the worst impacted countries.
Har Ki Pauri, A holy place - Har Ki Pauri is situated on both sides of the Ganga river, at the foothills of the Shivalik ranges.
We are all aware about the theory of biologically evaluation for Jean Baptist Lamarck. The theory tells about the evaluation of human how the structure of APE has got transferred to the today’s human being.
History tells us there’s nothing new about thousands of black people on the street demanding justice. Facial recognition technology and social media monitoring show us how far the repercussions of organizing and protesting against governments can go in the 21st century.
Mongolia is a landlocked country located between China and Russia. It is a vast emptiness that links land and sky and is one of the last few places on the planet where nomadic life is still a living tradition.
It is the story of a girl who lived through a period of history but was never seen, and though she was very artistic, she always hid from others until one day her identity was revealed. She was still trying to keep his identity a secret until she was satisfied to register herself in history.
The collection is a tribute to the famous cellist Jacqueline du Pré, a famous British musician who died at a young age. In this series, I have tried not to see the female face at first, so that the viewer's perception remains without judgment, and when she begins to see the rest of the photographic works, she realizes the feelings of this dominant musician.
