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Share and publish your portfolio galleries anywhere on the web using embeddable slideshows from Pixpa

Today, Pixpa (www.pixpa.com) launched the ability for its portfolio website users to publish and share their portfolio galleries anywhere on the web. Pixpa users can now embed their photo galleries directly on their Facebook wall, any website or blog or a number of social networks as a beautiful, interactive slideshow with full navigation controls. Users can publish single or multiple galleries by simply selecting galleries in EasyStudio – the online control panel for managing Pixpa portfolio websites. Click here to see this in action.

The interactive slideshow is branded with the user’s identity and links to a full screen photo gallery slideshow on the user’s portfolio website. Pixpa users can also use this feature to share specific galleries as stand-alone slideshows with clients.

Gurpreet Singh, CEO, Pixpa says – “We feel that the ability to share and publish work across the web is a very important tool for any photographer, artist or designer to reach out to a distributed audience online. Creative professionals can now take their work to their audience, rather than wait for people to visit their website. The embeddable slideshows also are a great tool for driving traffic to one’s portfolio website by sharing selected works”.

About Pixpa:
Pixpa is a easy-to-use portfolio website solution for photographers, artists and designers. Pixpa offers professionally designed, hosted and fully-manageable portfolio websites for creative professionals. To learn more about Pixpa and go live with your own portfolio website, visit www.pixpa.com.

Photowise – Redefining Photography Education

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Photowise is an educational institution that endeavors to redefine Photographic education and practice in India.
The institution offers courses, workshops and Photo-walks which are structured on a mentorship model and customizable to fit students’ requirements and schedule.

Photowise is giving much-needed professional stimulus to the the photographic education in the country so that the current void between pedagogy and practice can be filled.

Courses:
Introductory Course
Intensive Course
Introductory Course (lighting)
Please Click here to know more about course details.

Amit Mehra Photography – Awarded the Best Photographer of the Year-Asia by Sagamihara Museum, Japan.

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In his exciting visual journey spanning twenty years, Amit Mehra has traversed through variant genres of photography.

He has recently been awarded “Best Photographer of the Year-Asia” by Sagamihara Museum, Japan for his photo book “India A Timeless Celebration”.

His work has been published in Time, Der Spiegel, Fortune, Condenaste, Elle, French, Indian & Italian Elle Decor, India Today, Tehlka, Gallerie and National Geographic.

His advertising clients are Airtel, Pepsi, Reebok, Samsung, Ford, Maruti, Oberoi Hotels, Aman Resorts, Emaar, Dlf, Unitech, Westin etc.

His photographs of Timeless India have been exhibited and are in the permanent collection of Sagamihara Photography Museum, Japan and have also been exhibited at Gabbaron museum, ARCO Madrid art festival, Spain and Canon Gallery, Japan.

His works have been widely exhibited in London, Madrid, New York, Tokyo, Sydney, Milan and Melbourne and are the part of permanent collections of private collectors and art museums.

His forth-coming photography book projects are “We Indians” and “Kashmir”.

Dinesh Khanna Photography – Telling Stories in Color

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Dinesh worked variously as a Calculator Salesman, Garments Quality Checker and a Busboy in an Upper Eastside Bar in New York in his early years. This rather confused career path was due to his teenage belief that if he followed in his Photographer Father’s footsteps he would be yet another victim of the Indian caste system. This rebellion further led him to a 12 year long career as a Client Servicing Executive in Advertising where he finally achieved ‘burn-out’ at the ripe old age of 33 years and which left him with a burning desire to become a Professional Photographer.

So in 1990 he finally succumbed to what can probably be blamed on genetic coding – the desire to make images – both as a means of making a living and as a form of creative expression. The last 18 years have seen him involved in creating images for Advertising, Editorial and Corporate clients, specifically in the area of Food, Still-life, People and Interiors.

Also a body of Personal Work which has been exhibited in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, London, Edinburgh, San Francisco and New York. His latest Exhibition was “Tirtha – a Spiritual Journey” in December 07 in New Delhi. Besides this he has done 2 Pictorial Books – “Bazaar” and “Living Faith” – which were a result of over a decade of traveling through the traditional markets and religious centres of India. 18 years into the journey Photography is not just a profession and a passion but his means of understanding and feeling the world and life around him.

Besides continuing to do commercial assignments for International Magazines, Advertising Agencies and Corporates, Dinesh is also currently working on 3 Projects, which are very close to his heart, on “Benaras – Everyday in Eternity”, “Earning Dignity – from Art, Craft and Trade” and “Telling Stories – London, Paris & New York”.

Dinesh’s feelings about Colour: “Color is almost a language in India. It’s in food, clothes, on walls, in architecture. Color is such an integral part of life that to take it away would be killing a part of the story. As a photographer, I find color challenging. Black-and-white photography is almost easier as it makes the image alien to the way the mind sees things. Color is always around us. To transcend that, to show reality the way it is, and yet, have an interesting composition or an interesting moment is far more challenging.“

Delhi-Drama – A Photographic Project on Delhi

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DELHI-DRAMA is a long-term photographic project on Delhi conceptualized and initiated in 2009 by Sundeep Bali. The project is an amalgam of Photography, Performance, History, Fashion and more.

The project would culminate in several episodes of staged photographic works executed with the intervention of a performer whose dress (from jewelry to footwear) and demeanor as well as actions and body–language either affirm a certain socio-cultural profile of a certain site/locality of Delhi or even contradict it .The message is to inform or remind the audience of historical/traditional socio-cultural profiles of well –known sites/ localities and contexts associated with them in a way which is quintessentially Delhi.

Bizarre and romantic, banal and exotic, gaudy and earthy, nonchalant and inquisitive, formal and anomalous- these are some of the contradictory facets of this city that Delhi-Drama endeavors to showcase.

A visual extravaganza and a tribute to Delhi and its denizens.

Rahul Reddy – Fashion Designer

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Rahul Reddy is a graduate from the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi in 2001. After completing his graduation, Rahul went to the London College of Printing, London. On his return he joined Rajesh Pratap Singh as his assistant for three years.
In 2006 the label ‘RAHUL REDDY’ was launched and has been a regular at the fashion weeks in India since 2008.

Announcing the Jury for “The First International Pixpa Photo Challenge”

The First International Pixpa Photo Challenge 2010 will be judged by Amit Sharma and Mustafa Quraishi. Amit and Mustafa will bring all their experience and distinct view points to the challenging task of selecting the winners from the many intersting, diverse and evocative expressions that we have received as entries for this photo contest.

To view their body of work, please visit:

Amit Sharma – www.amitworks.com
Mustafa Quraishi – www.mustafaquraishi.com

About Amit Sharma:
Amit Sharma is a self taught photographer based in Delhi, working mainly in the field of lifestyle,fashion and travel. He shoots regularly for Publications like Travel + Leisure , Maxim and has shot prestigious assignments for Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, Femina etc.

About Mustafa Quraishi
Mustafa Quraishi specializes in social documentary photography and is based in New Delhi, India.

As a boy he dreamed of flying choppers for the Indian Army, but Mustafa discovered his real calling as early as his late teens. At 18, he joined the Delhi offices of The Indian Express and after five rich and eventful years, Mustafa joined the Associated Press and moved to Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. It was while he was in Andhra Pradesh that he began documenting the world of India’s ultra leftwing Maoists who have been running a armed insurgency against the State from their vast jungle bases in Central and South India. It is while working on the underground Maoists in the jungles of Andhra Pradesh that the thought of documenting the movement and its lives and faces through an extended photo-essay struck Mustafa. Since then, Mustafa has made several, and often perilous, journeys to the remote and inaccessible heart of the Maoist struggle to put together a rare and singlular photo archive on a subject that currently occupies centrestage in India.

Mustafa’s work has taken him to other ports of action and human tragedy, the Asian tsunami of 2004, the serial bombings in Delhi in 2008, Inauguration of Hamid Karzai’s government in Kabul 2009 the overthrow of the Nepali monarchy. His work from such flashpoints has found place in prestigious publications like The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, GEO magazine, amoungst others.

Renaud Philippe Photography – French Photojournalist

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Renaud Philippe is a French freelance photojournalist based in Quebec City, Canada. He is co-founder of Stigmat Photo -  A Photojournalism Agency . After getting a degree in journalism, he fell in love with India and the Himalayan regions where he has traveled several times. Renaud is deeply determined to follow his way and to make his pictures become a tool to awaken the collective conscience on social issues.
His work has appeared in publications including MacLean’s, Canadian Geographic, Mare magazine, Global Post, Le Figaroand Days Japan.

Ryan Reason Photography

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Ryan Reason, a native resident of Las Vegas, started photography at the age of ten and spent a lifetime following his passion for self expression and visual communication. In the year 2008, he began working for commercial photography studio in Las Vegas as photographer and studio manager. His work continues to portray his passion for creating impactful and bold images.

Ryan has specializing in concept and environmental portraiture, his work featured in 944 and seven magazines. Ryan is currently working on a series of portrait that will be used rebranding of UNLV school of Architecture.

Sundeep Bali: Lens-based Artist and Educator

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Sundeep Bali is a well known photographer who calls himself a lens- based artist. As a commercial photographer, he has worked for Verve, Khoj, Max Muller Bhawan, Osians. His work has been published in various online journals and publications like Architectural review, Architectural record. He captures the complexities and excitement of urban-existence.

He is the member at the academy of photographic excellence. He has also started the institute, Photowise for specialized training in photography. He was also the semi finalist for the Hasselblad Masters award in 2008. His first solo show was presented in May 2006.