As a Malaysian man living in Doha, the scenario above is a common experience for me. Many times I, together with other Asian bachelors, have been told to leave these places while seeing Arab or Caucasian bachelors walking freely to wherever they want to go.
Category: Portfolios & Galleries
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‘Fatalistic Tendency’: A Photographer Copes with Thoughts of Suicide – Feature Shoot
‘Fatalistic Tendency’: A Photographer Copes with Thoughts of Suicide
For Fatalistic Tendency, Dhaka, Bangladesh-based documentary photographer Tushikur Rahman visualizes his own depression through scenes of violence and confusion. In his unnerving, claustrophobic frames, he confronts the painful suicidal impulses brought on by insomnia and anxiety attacks, using his camera as a means of recording a personal diary and intimate confessional. For Rahman, who has photographed major catastrophes including the 2013 collapse of Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza and the nation’s 2010 tiger killings, Fatalistic Tendency was in some ways the most difficult of his projects, forcing him to imagine some of his deepest fears and most private desires.
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2014/09/fatalistic-tendency-photographer-copes-thoughts-suicide/
For Fatalistic Tendency, Dhaka, Bangladesh-based documentary photographer Tushikur Rahman visualizes his own depression through scenes of violence and confusion. In his unnerving, claustrophobic frames, he confronts the painful suicidal impulses brought on by insomnia and anxiety attacks, using his camera as a means of recording a personal diary and intimate confessional.
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zhang kechun – the yellow river | burn magazine
Zhang Kechun – The Yellow River
Zhang Kechun The Yellow River ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Zhang Kechun The Yellow River play this essay Saying that it is a song might have been a popular joke. Saying that it is our mot…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/09/zhang-kechun-the-yellow-river/
Then I determined to go and follow its pace, with all my courage and my only presentable tool — a large-format camera. That is my implicit expression. I have the knowledge that mountains and rivers are nothing a photographer may properly comment on, and behaviors like growling, making a bold pledge or a plaintive complaint on the presence of such an eternal being may look inappropriate. Now, it’s the moment that I must wake up my silent soul to quietly keep watch on it flowing for seasons, to stare at it through this journey, to drink a toast to it, to sing a song for it, and to have a sleep beside it.
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Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience, TIME.com
If the story of the United States has a theme so far in the 21st century, it is surely one of resilience. To hail that spirit on the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001, TIME revisited the people who led us, moved us and inspired us, from the morning of the attacks through the tumultuous decade that followed. These astonishing testimonies — from 40 men and women including George W. Bush, Tom Brokaw, General David Petraeus, Valerie Plame Wilson, Black Hawk helicopter pilot Tammy Duckworth, and the heroic first responders of Ground Zero — define what it means to meet adversity, and then overcome it.
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People of the Twenty-First Century | PDN Photo of the Day
Over the course of the last 20 years, Dutch conceptual artist and street photographer Hans Eijkelboom documented fashion trends worn by people in New York, Paris, Amsterdam and Shanghai. The images, laid out into grids, are compiled into one comprehensive book, Hans Eijkelboom: People of the Twenty-First Century (Phaidon Press, 2014).
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Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns – LightBox
LightBox | Time
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via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/
Carter curated a presentation of images from artists such as Trevor Paglen and David Taylor, who use deep investigative research methods to inform their work — Paglen, for example, often finds the names of classified military programs by searching for government job listings. Both men create work that discusses the covert culture surrounding intelligence in America, often shedding light on information that would otherwise be unknown to the public.
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A United Ukraine, in Photographs
A United Ukraine, in Photographs
Arthur Bondar has produced a three-part opus on his Ukrainian homeland, portraying it as he remembered it from his childhood, as one.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/a-united-ukraine-in-photographs/
Arthur Bondar is not exactly the type to take orders. He gave up pursuing a military career when he realized in college that “fighting was not a good way to solve problems.” Instead, he turned to photography, working for a Ukrainian photo agency.
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A Virginia Community Looking for a Safe Harbor
A Virginia Community Looking for a Safe Harbor
Preston Gannaway’s first book delves into the lives of the residents of Ocean View, a community in flux in the shadow of a sprawling naval base.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/a-virginia-community-looking-for-a-safe-harbor/
Preston Gannaway, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, moved to the neighborhood to begin a staff job at The Virginian-Pilot. Raised in mountain country, she was captivated by the chance to live seaside on a photographer’s salary. Almost immediately, the majesty of the sea inspired her to make photographs of the area and its people. Now, five years after the ocean lured her, she has published her first book, “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.”
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Majid Saeedi Life in War – The Eye of Photography
“As a photographer I believe it is my responsibility to show how other people live their lives…a lot of us sit at home and don’t even know our neighbors. I wanted to get closer to the normal people of Afghanistan, to live with them, eat with them and talk to them. To tell their stories, which have become part of my life also.”
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Fractures Photo Collective: a documentary photography collective – The Eye of Photography
Their logo is a camera lens screwed onto the face of a hammer, and when the shutter clicks, the images are as striking as the subjects. Fractures Collective was founded three years ago. Today the team includes four documentary photographers based in Barcelona, Sao Paulo and Caracas: Guillaume Darribau, William Sands, Anderson Barbosa, Oscar B. Castillo and development director Nora Meesen. They are all committed to producing politically and socially engaged photography.
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kiana hayeri – jense degar (the other sex) | burn magazine
Kiana Hayeri – Jense Degar (The Other Sex)
Kiana Hayeri Jense Degar (The Other Sex) [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Under Islamic laws, homosexuality is not recognized and is considered to be a sin. Contrary to what is…
via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/10/kiana-hayeri-jense-degar-the-other-sex/
Amir is 19 year old. He is a bold Iranian homosexual. He has been accepted and supported by his family and has survived in a society where his existence as a homosexual is denied
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Envisioning Human Rights Part I Gilles Peress, Thomas Morley, Jean-Marie Simon – The Eye of Photography
Gilles Peress raises the dilemma of human rights photography:
“I keep asking myself the fundamental question: Can human rights photography, like 18th century novels, be a vehicle for empathy? Can photographs motivate viewers to engage with human rights issues and bring about real change? As we know, badly used photography can be a vehicle for propaganda or emotional exploitation of the worst kind, and can ultimately desensitize viewers. Alternatively, if we accept the postmodernist argument mentioned above, we run the risk of photographs not being taken and entering a black hole of not seeing and a complete absence of consciousness. Which do you choose?”
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Modern Day Explorer Documents the World’s ‘Micronations’ – Feature Shoot
Modern Day Explorer Documents the World’s ‘Micronations’
Drawn to small places with improbable histories, photographer Léo Delafontaine could be described as a modern day explorer. Upon the discovery of the Principality of Sealand, a military platform situated on international waters, with a population of four and ruled by a constitutional monarchy, he knew this would be the start of a new documentary project. After some research he realized these independent entities, or Micronations, are not an isolated phenomenon and many other similar nations exist throughout the world.
via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2014/10/micronations/
Drawn to small places with improbable histories, photographer Léo Delafontaine could be described as a modern day explorer. Upon the discovery of the Principality of Sealand, a military platform situated on international waters ruled by a constitutional monarchy, he knew this would be the start of a new documentary project. After some research he realized these independent entities, or Micronations, as the series is titled, are not an isolated phenomenon and many other similar nations exist throughout the world
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Léonard Pongo – Uncanny & Magical: Exploring the Congo | LensCulture
LensCulture – Contemporary Photography
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via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/leonard-pongo-uncanny-amp-magical-exploring-the-congo#slide-15
“The Uncanny” is a documentary project made in the Democratic Republic of Congo following the elections in 2011. This story offers a vision of the country, as experienced from within. Through my photographs, I am trying to show the broad, collateral impact of the country’s long-running conflicts rather than the usual, “direct” hits.
