[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Currently reading: #3: Untold Stories behind the making of Samuel Bourne’s ‘Picturesque’ Photographs of the Himalayas : a colonial narrative of the mountains. British photographer Samuel Bourne is celebrated for both his technical skills as well as his ‘adventurous outlook in seeking out suitably picturesque views to […]
William Eggleston: Last Days
[ad_1] David Zwirner is pleased to announce The Last Dyes, an exhibition of new dye-transfer prints by William Eggleston opening at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street location in New York, which follows its 2024–2025 presentation at the 606 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. Eggleston pioneered the use of dye-transfer printing for art photography […]
Reading Alfred Hugh Fisher’s Photographs of South India: an …
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Currently reading: #5: Reading Alfred Hugh Fisher’s Photographs of South India: an Adventure to Meet Tambusami What’s your go to method when you want to see what a place looks like before you visit? Do you use google maps & street view? Scroll through your favourite social […]
Looking at Colonial Photographs : Memory, Posture, & Place
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Have archival photographs ever looked back at you? Dragged you into its frames? Made you pause not just to see, but to feel, to guess, to remember, or to imagine? There is a strange alchemy when one is looking at colonial photographs. A photograph can certainly freeze […]
Unnamed People and Forgotten Lives in the Archive
[ad_1] In Kerala’s colonial photography archives, people gaze back at us – some named, categorized, but many left entirely unrecorded. These photographs from British-era Kerala capture moments of stillness: people working, posing, witnessing. But behind each frame lies a pressing question that colonial visual records often fail to answer: who were these people? Photograph of […]
A walkthrough of 4 Colonial Photographic archives on Kerala
[ad_1] Colonial photographs of Kerala, today, when shared online, often evoke nostalgia. During the early 20th century, British officials created images that offer more than just picturesque glimpses of the past. The photos, bound into notebooks, travelled beyond Kerala, shaping how the region was seen and remembered. Today, they remain at once familiar and strangely […]
7 Tips to Up Your Photography Game
[ad_1] For most people, a huge part of traveling is taking photos. Whether you’re bouncing around the globe with fancy cameras or just documenting a trip with your phone, taking good pictures is key to reliving a favorite trip and sharing your experience with family and friends. It’s not hard to take good travel photos. […]
Miloš Nejezchleb: Photography that Challenges Perception
[ad_1] Discovering the Artistic Journey Miloš Nejezchleb, a fine art photographer from the Czech Republic, channels his creative spirit through his lens, capturing the world in unique and compelling ways. Living with his wife and three children, Nejezchleb’s journey into photography began 13 years ago, transitioning exclusively to fine art photography eight years ago. This […]
19th-century Lucknow through the lenses of homegrown photogr…
[ad_1] In the 19th century, the city of Lucknow witnessed one of the most defining moments in India’s history – the war of 1857. Perhaps it is for this reason, (and the simultaneous rise of photography), that there exist several “albums” and “views” of the city. These photos, are now at museums and libraries in […]
In photographs: 19th century South India
[ad_1] In the summer of 1854, Captain Linnaeus Tripe, an officer in the East India Company army, arrived in South India. In Bangalore, he set up a studio, ready to create an ‘accurate’ visual record for the Company. (It is probably why you’d find his photographs more ‘informational’ than ‘aesthetic‘). Tripe’s initial experiments with photography […]