Filipino Estan Cabigas wears many hats – photographer, traveler, writer, entomologist and historian. He’s nice guy too! TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Desaparecido“) © Estan Cabigas In this series, Estan explored the complex mix of emotions and memories of a family with a missing husband/father. He was forcibly taken away in 2007 due to political reasons. [...]
Ahmad Zamroni is an Indonesian photojournalist. For several years, he has covered news events for the wires and has now transited to freelance work. TOP TO BOTTOM, (from “Islam of Indonesia“) © Zamroni Ahmad This series focuses on Islam in Indonesia and how it has influenced politics and everyday life. Life and religion are intricately [...]
© Ch’ng Yaohong One word to describe the SIPF opening today – amazing! It’s hard to see so many good works congregated in one area especially in Singapore and I was literally blown away by the quality I saw. There were so many good works on show that it’s hard for me to single out [...]
There’s something about grainy black+white street scenes. How does one weave a story with random snapshots taken of streets, strangers and strays? © Yoshihisa Kajioka, 2008 Yoshihisa Kajioka at No Digital accomplishes the act of story-telling through arranging his random images on his website, creating stories that are similar to Daido Moriyama’s works.
This just came into my mailbox today: The FCCT is pleased to announce its Second Annual FCCT Photojournalism Awards, the premier photojournalism contest in Asia. Who’s Eligible? Any pro or amateur photographer in Southeast Asia (defined as: Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Brunei). Photographers do NOT need to be [...]
© Munem Wasif Munem Wasif has received this year’s City of the Perpignan Young Reporter’s Award at Visa pour l’Image, the premier International Festival of Photojournalism. I wrote about Wasif last September here. Since then, he has worked on a number of excellent work and his name seems to be popping up everywhere. Munem’s work [...]
New online magazine hot off the digital presses, Vewd is an international photography website dedicated to continuing the tradition of storytelling through a visual medium – this includes documentary, photojournalism, street and portraiture in the form of galleries and multimedia pieces. Do check it out!
Mort Rosenblum and Gary Knight (from VII) have unveiled a new magazine – dispatches. The magazine’s financed by Dr. Simba Gill, an entrepreneur, scientist and businessman in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry. And it’s not one of those pdf magazines that you get free online. dispatches took root on an olive farm in Provence, flourished [...]
I know I’m a little slow in posting this but I was learning so much going through the video interviews last weekend that I completely forgot about posting it. For those who are unaware of it, the World Press Photo awards has a lovely collection of interviews up on their site. Worth wasting spending time [...]
It’s strange to find a photographer associated with catfish but it probably has to do with Suthep Kritsanavarin’s series, Four Thousand Island…Where the Mekong Die? In this documentary project, Suthep focused his sight on the fishermen whose daily lives depend on the Mekong river’s giant catfish and other endangered species. TOP TO BOTTOM, Four Thousand [...]
