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08 January
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Geoffrey Hiller’s Enduring Love Affair with Myanmar

  Well-known Portland-based photographer Geoffrey Hiller’s first encounter with Myanmar was back in 1987. He was drawn to the resilient people of this country, whose political legacy is deep-rooted in authoritarian, repressive military regime, and went on to visit Myanmar many times. This love affair bore an award-winning web documentary and compelling photos capturing the lives of a people forgotten by the rest of the word. Hiller’s new book ‘Daybreak in Myanmar’ started out as a Kickstarter project that was successfully funded last year.Movie A Dog’s Purpose (2017)   Besides being a masterful photographer, Geoffrey Hiller is also a multimedia…

08 January
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Capturing Motion

Apart from capturing a moment or an exact second in time, photographs can also be used to denote movement. Sometimes, it is necessary to show what is happening through one single image and that is when the skill of capturing motion through images comes into play.   Here are a few tips on how to effectively capture the action of motion in your pictures:   Panning   Panning is a great way to depict motion in your pictures. It is a simple but highly effective method that allows the photographer to show that the subject is in motion. The technique…

06 January
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New York Through the Eyes of Mary Ellen Mark

Award winning photographer Mary Ellen Mark is a critically acclaimed photographer known for her expertise in the areas of advertising photography, portraiture and photojournalism. Around 16 compilations of her photographic works have been published and exhibited at various locations around the globe. She has been endowed with the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award thrice and has received triple fellowships from the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts). Early life   She started her early years in photography by following transvestite culture, the women’s liberation movement and movements associated with the Vietnam War. This was how her photographic affair with the…

21 April
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Stories behind Magdalena Sole´s images – Part II

Image above: R.A Catchings & Leonard Henderson at WE J´S © Magdalena Solé   I searched for the perfect chapel all over the Mississippi Delta until I found the Brooklyn Chapel in Greenwood. Not only was the chapel and the light just right, but also the cotton was at its fullest and the clouds that day perfectly mimicked the shape of the cotton balls. I didn’t know the picture existed until I found it.   R.A Catchings & Leonard Henderson at WE J´S © Magdalena Solé   It was still light outside when I took this picture at WE’J’s bar…

14 April
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Stories behind Magdalena Sole´s images – Part I

Magdalena Sole recently shared with us some of the techniques behind her images.   MAGDALENA SOLÉ is a social documentary photographer. She is best known for her vibrant and complex color work. Visual language has been her life’s work. In 1989 she founded TransImage, a graphic design studio, in New York City. In 2002 she graduated with a Masters of Fine Art in Film from Columbia University. Her last film, “Man On Wire”, on which she was the Unit Production Manager, won an Oscar in 2009. She has taught in Europe and the US.   Her projects span the globe….

05 December
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Day of the Dead in Oaxaca, Mexico

  In the state capital, Oaxaca City, the festivities of Día de los Muertos begin a week before the 1st and 2nd of November. Day of the Dead is the most time-honored and expressive holiday. It is an example of the harmonious relationship between Christianity and the pre-hispanic traditions found in this Mexican state. Dressed as doctors, judges, teachers, tennis players and prostitutes, The “Catrinas” (female skeletons representations), engage in all kinds of activities from dancing, praying and drinking to hair styling and singing. Every conceivable profession and pastime is burlesqued and well represented in the “comparsas”(Day of the Dead…

05 September
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