All l I wanted to do yesterday was a quickie blog post with the photos I took recently in Galle. But, its no fun staying on the straight and narrow path. So I strayed. Wonderful thing to do this straying – intentional or otherwise — it gets you to interesting places — like the Portuguese who drifted into Galle after ...
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 ...
For weeks this blog of mine, which has a mind of its own had been nagging me to write a piece and take stock of 2011. The question is how do you crunch a year full of events, a stock of photo memories into a single blog but let’s try. … Boys will be boys. A son of a doctor ...
“There is a space between man’s imagination and man’s attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.” ― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam Everyday before I drifted off to sleep, in the waking hours as I moved into consciousness, rumbling along in a rickshaw in dusty Dhaka and often bored at office meetings, my thoughts would be on this ...
It’s great to see Sri Lanka has built back better after the 2004 tsunami and has put behind the conflict years to hit the Lonely Planet’s No. 1 spot as the hot destination for 2013. It seemed right for me to rummage through my archives for some shots off the beaten tracks in Lanka I was lucky enough to visit ...
Never a day passes at the Drik Picture Agency where I work without a mention of Rashid Talukder’s name. He is our honoured and much loved photographer. A heroic and legendary, he documented the Bangladesh’s War of Independence. I didn’t know him when he was alive but only found him in his images. And so why do we talk about him ...
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. ...
Reblogged from Art Blart: Exhibition dates: 26th January - 19th May 2013 The more I see the work of this outstanding artist, the more I fall in love with it. There is just a beautiful lyricism here - nothing extraneous or superfluous within the picture frame, sensitively balanced photographs that are whimsical and engaging. A woman and her dog in Harlem, ...
I had been dragging my feet for months, and the voice inside me was rising to a crescendo about the jobs around the house that needed to be done. On “Me Time” life is serendipitous and often its pretty easy to ignore this inner scratchy voice. But the grass on the lawn was getting longer and visuals of more slithering ...
“Shaken not stirred” was my first blog post in November 2007 — a result of getting copped in Bandarawela for photographing school children. It brought forth interesting advice from a very dear friend, writing as N.B.S. Silva ( this was his nom de plume and NBS stood for No Bull Shit Silva), who said if I had any sense I ...
Then there was the soft rain in the morning – falling gently, the morning drink for the parched grass after the blistering sun of yesterday. The planter’s chair left on the back verandah is wet. Why should I be surprised?– It’s after all the monsoon and I love rain washed mornings. Beyond the fallen browned coconut leaves, beyond the sun ...
Legendary Indian photographer and photojournalist Raghu Rai at the launch of his book “Bangladesh: The price of freedom” at the Bengal Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 7 Dec. 2012. Photo Chulie de Silva The lady in red leaned forward, looked into Raghu Rai‘s eyes and asked “So is it the photographer’s eye that matters?” Rai put his hand on his heart and ...
