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Animesh
Ray
Project :
Monsoon, Bengal
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Monsoon in Bengal is the most beautiful, most wretched, most sought-after, and most reviled of all seasons.
Rain comes at the end of a brutal summer, yet temperature fluctuates between 35 and 40^oC with 70-90% relative humidity. Rain feeds the rice paddies and jute fields, rain means having to avoid starvation for millions of people, yet the same rains make many homeless and inundate fields of rice where water level often rises faster than the seedlings can grow. Undoutedly it is the most poetic of all seasons in Bengal, yet it makes people home-bound and sick with enteric diseases and malaria, and power outages and leaking roof are misrable accompaniments to the poetic flourish.
Here is my attempt to relive the memory of rains from over thiry years ago, when I had left Bengal and returned this year for the first time during monsoon.
These photographs were taken over three days in July-August 2007.
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Luis
Afonso
Project :
The Atlantic Light
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Portugal is a tiny country in the west coast of Europe. It is only 218 km wide and 561 km long, but has an Atlantic coast of 832 km. If that isn't enough to explain why Portuguese have a special relation with the ocean, its long history sure is.
I don't remember the first time I set my feet on the ocean's sandy shore - I was too infant to remember... - but I know exactly when I first introduced my wide angle zoom to the temper of the sea. It was a beautiful late afternoon in the Spring of 2006. From that day on, I kept on returning several times and my love for seascapes never ceased to grow.
What you'll see here is a journey of learning for me and - I hope - one of discovery for you. In the process, I refined my composition skills, my editing knowledge and, above all, I discovered that to capture great photos in this discipline it's crucial to go out only when the light is right. "First, light", Joe Cornish says, and I can't agree more. And it's that light I want to share with you here.
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24/01/2008
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Marie
Hacene
Project :
Petits bouts de nature
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Petits bouts de nature, c'est une vision de la nature surtout en détail. Fleurs, herbes, feuilles...
Nature in small, is a vision of nature especially in detail.
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28/02/2008
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28/02/2008
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Simon
Kolton
Project :
One fight in bangkok
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I am not that crazy about Thai boxing, but i found this very interesting for picture.
One day i met a man, this guy is a policeman and his name is Noodle ;o)
then he was sergent noodle for me. After long time i spent with him, he told me that before he was working in a big stadium, and asked me if i would like see the place, and backstage.
Hmmmm of course sergent noodle i want !!!
Then 2 weeks after i meet him in evening in front the stadium. Here some picture
from this night i spent in the stadium, i were lucky that i could see the backstage.
I though it would be beter to post this subject in black and white.
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15/03/2008
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laetitia
dupin
Project :
In the Name of God Rama
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In the Name of God
By 1890, a group of untouchable people, to whom the « superior» castes denied the access to temples and to any religious activity, decide to part from the rest of the population. This group start then to tatoo fully or partly their bodies with the name of their god, Rama, as a sign of protestation, of provocation, but also to get an access to a religious and spiritual life. Their main spiritual practice is the reading of the sacred songs of the ‘Ramcharitmanas’, holy hinduist book, where the name of Rama is repeated again and again. This spiritual and social approach is unique. They created a new way of life through their tatoos, their clothes, their writings and their holy songs, where the name of Rama is everywhere. They have religious meetings, called ‘Mela’, during which they sing the name of Rama all night long. However, due to the growing influence of western values in India, this practice is slowing down. Nowadays, only 500 are still active and tatooed, and only a few among the younger ones are following their father’s path.
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14/05/2008
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14/05/2008
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