Reblogged from Campari and Sofa: How does one portray the spirit of one’s country? Through the faces of its people is an excellent way to start. Malick Sidibe’ was born in Bamako, in what was then French Sudan (now Mali) in the 1930’s, and it was art who lifted him out of poverty and took him away from a ...
Reblogged from Campari and Sofa: This is the story of a curious man and an undersea artist. At 71 years old, Yoji Ookata thought he had seen it all ... underwater. He'd been diving since his 21st birthday. Worked as a professional deep sea photographer since he was 40 and spent the past 31 years beneath the surface of ...
Reblogged from Campari and Sofa: In the spirit of generosity week - I wanted to share art by a woman who shares art. And who asks people to share their time to help her to share the art. Lovely Stuff Mademoiselle Maurice takes origami to the streets. From a small, perfect, intricate formed fold (in fact 30 000 of ...
Reblogged from Campari and Sofa: Nina Katchadourian has a unique way of whiling away long plane journeys: she locks herself in the lavatory and styles herself as a 15th Century Flemish portrait. She uses whatever materials are around - paper towels and cups, loo-rolls, seat protectors, eye pads ... snaps away quickly - and leaves the bathroom as she found ...
The excited voice on the phone said “Chulie I am in Sri Lanka, are you here?” Sadly I wasn’t – I was stuck in a hospital in Dhaka with pneumonia. The caller was Nirvair Singh Rai, a young Indian friend I met while working at Drik. Today, we caught up on GChat. “I am in love with your homeland, and ...
Dear Householder Many of my ancestors have lived in this land of yours undisturbed for years and the government has granted me legal rights since 1937. However, lately my sunbathing in your garden has been interrupted by this very annoying photographer. As far as I know, there have been no paparazzi on this land till your arrival recently. Could you ...
Reblogged from Campari and Sofa: “Quite often I feel as if my soul is in the past and my mind is in the future”. To say that Luther Gerlach is in love with the past would be too reductive. It might be more accurate to say that Luther Gerlach is in love with the photographing technique and equipment of ...
Magnfied view of leaf at bazaar where Kalpana and Lieutenant Ferdous had an altercation shortly before her disappearance. Photo: Shahidul Alam/Drik/Majority World The brilliance of visual documentary combined with meticulous research in the photo-forensic study “In search of Kalpana Chakma” breaks a painful silence of the disappearance of Kalpana Chakma, an outspoken indigenous Bangladeshi woman who fought for the rights ...
It was a regular sound of a banging on a door or a window that woke me up in the middle of the night. Robbers, polecats?– snuggled nicely in bed I debated whether to get up or not but in the end commonsense got better of me and I switched on lights, peered from my window in to the garden. ...
Lassie, a little grumpy waiting for chocolate cake on my Mother’s birthday. 22 August 2012. Photo Chulie de Silva You were there under my father’s bed as he breathed his last, You were there when the tsunami came, and survived it too, You were there for every birthday, stuffing yourself with cake, You were there sulking, refusing to be photographed ...
Reblogged from ALAL O DULAL: Murder not tragedy A project at Drik Gallery An exhibition of observations, both witnessed and imagined of the rana plaza collapse. Read more… 537 more words
Reblogged from Campari and Sofa: The young woman who washed my hair at the hairdresser today me told that she is in love. And this time it's for real. I asked her how she knew? And she listed her new fella’s virtues – he doesn’t lie, he buys her presents, he takes her great places, he’s never late to fetch her, he doesn’t have other girlfriends .. Read more… 1,261 more words
“Sri Lanka remains deeply concerned that the lack of financial independence of the OHCHR also leads to disproportionate attention being paid to country-specific action in the Council which selectively targets some countries, while situations, human rights violations and restrictive practices in other parts of the world that warrant more urgent and immediate attention and action remain conveniently ignored,” said the ...
Reblogged from Art Blart: Exhibition dates: 15th February - 26th May 2013 NEVER AGAIN! . Many thankx to Haus der Kunst for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. Eli Weinberg Crowd near the Drill Hall on the opening day of the Treason Trial, Johannesburg, 19. ...
What are the hallmarks of a winning image in Smithsonian magazine’s photo contest? Technical quality, clarity and composition are all important, but so too is a flair for the unexpected and the ability to capture a picture-perfect moment. Over the past eleven years, Smithsonian judges have seen over 290,000 photographs from more than 112 countries and are once again looking ...
Reblogged from Art Blart: Exhibition dates: 16 February - 26 May 2013 I don't often say this about an artist but OMG, I am in love! Five years before Wassily Kandinsky (he of the book Concerning the Spiritual In Art 1910), before Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, the images of Carl Jung (The Red Book) and Rudolf Steiner (Blackboard Drawings 1919-1924… Read more… 2,342 more words ...
