Richard Kavanagh is a leading hair stylist in New Zealand. He is a platform artist since 1997. Now he is an elite member of Redken Global Artistic Network. He has won several hairdressing awards in New Zealand.
His work features on the covers and pages of publications such as vogue, style, Karen and many more. He is the fashion guru on prime time network television, hosts the weekly hair and fashion spot on TVNZ’s Good Morning show.
Rajiv Kapoor uses photography as a medium to communicate his sense of humanity while documenting the ordinary people on the streets. His work portrays the indifferences, homelessness, moving stories of individuals and various other social issues. He uses photography as a social tool to document different cultural traditions and lives of people.
Rajiv has taken various workshops on social documentary. Also, his series of photographs were displayed in many universities and various exhibition halls and café around the metropolitan area of Seattle, WA.
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.
Dear All,
The New Year is here. And Pixpa would like to celebrate the new beginning by announcing “The First International Pixpa Photo Challenge!”
Call for Entries for “The First International Pixpa Photo Challenge”.
Theme: Retrospect 2009
We are looking for your best works from 2009 – evocative, dramatic and interesting images that you have captured in 2009. The images can be black & white or color under any category – abstract/illustrative, portrait or landscape.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
- You can post your entries to Pixpa’s wall on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PixpaCommunity
- Or send your entries to photochallenge@pixpa.com
- Make sure you include a caption with each entry.
- Please submit JPG files only with minimum 1000 pixels width.
PRIZE
- The winner gets a Pixpa Pro custom designed portfolio website valued at USD 1000.
- The website will include 2 years of hosting and support.
- View examples of Pixpa Pro custom-designed websites.
The shortlisted list of finalist entries will also be featured in a website on the competition.
The winning entry will be published on the Pixpa website and the Pixpa Community on FaceBook.
TIMELINE
You should submit your works before 28th February 2010.
The winners will be announced on 15th March 2010.
RULES
By entering the Pixpa Photo Challenge you must accept the terms and conditions given below:
- Participants must be 18 years or above on 1 January 2010.
- The Pixpa Photo Challenge is open to all professional and amateur photographers.
- The competition has no entree fees.
- You can submit up to 5 entries.
- The copyright of any entry submitted will be owned by the photographer.
- The participants warrant to the organizers that the copyright of the entries submitted by them is owned by them and required permissions have been taken from any model or property featured in the photograph. In case the work was commissioned by a third party, the photographer must take the permission of the person who commissioned it, before submitting the entry.
- The entries submitted for the competition can be used by Pixpa for marketing and promotion purposes of the competition in online or offline mediums without any payment to the photographer or to any third party. This free use will only be in connection with the promotion of Pixpa Photo Challenge and Pixpa shall give a credit line to the Photographer in case of any such use.
- The organizer of this photo competition is Pixpa – http://www.pixpa.com
Please remember that you must adhere to the above stated terms and conditions.
So all you photography enthusiasts out there – budding students, amateurs or professional photographers, hurry and send us your entries.
About Pixpa:
Pixpa is a platform to deliver custom-designed portfolio websites to photographers, artists and designers. Pixpa portfolio websites empower creative professionals to easily and successfully leverage the power of the internet to showcase their work and promote their business. For more information visit http://www.pixpa.com
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Tengku Bahar, known by his peers as Badris, is a New Delhi-based photographer and photo editor. Time, Newsweek, Le Monde, International Herald Tribune, the New York Times and the Washington Post have published his images.
Following his Visual Anthropology degree from the University of Virginia (USA), Badris photographed for newspapers in Virginia and Texas before pursuing personal projects in northern India.
He covered the December 2004 tsunami in his home country Malaysia for Agence France-Presse (AFP) and a year later was promoted to chief photographer in the capital Kuala Lumpur.
He currently edits on the AFP South Asia Photo Desk, overseeing production from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives.
We feel better when we look at a photographs of people we love. Need some science to prove it? Here you go: Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles recently published a study showing that looking at photos helps people experience less physical pain.
The experimenters applied painful heat to the arms of female volunteers under several different conditions. The subjects were asked to rate the discomfort they felt while…
(a) holding the hand of their long-term romantic partner (as he sat behind the curtain),
(b) holding the hand of a male stranger (also behind the curtain),
(c) holding a squeeze ball,
(d) viewing the partner’s photographs (taken upon his arrival) on a computer screen,
(e) viewing photographs of a male stranger (ethnicity-matched to the participant’s partner),
(f) viewing photographs of a chair, and
(g) viewing a crosshair.
The subjects reported the lowest levels of discomfort under condition (d), viewing a photograph of their partner. Surprisingly, looking at a picture made them feel better than when they were holding their partner’s hand.
The researchers conclude:
“The findings suggest that bringing loved ones’ photographs to painful procedures may be beneficial, particularly if those individuals cannot be there. In fact, because loved ones vary in their ability to provide support, photographs may, in some cases, be more effective than in-person support. In sum, these findings challenge the notion that the beneficial effects of social support come solely from supportive social interactions and suggest that simple reminders of loved ones may be sufficient to engender feelings of support.”
The study was published in the November 2009 issue of the journal Psychological Science. View a PDF of the report or read more in a UCLA press release. Spotted via The New York Times Well Blog
George Menon is born and brought up in Christchurch, New Zealand. Now he is a well established wedding photographer in London. His work reveals the magic of joy and his creative style by capturing the spontaneous emotions and magical moments. He is an expertise in black and white images too. He believes in capturing casual, natural and contemporary images, as his photos are creative, expressive and emotive.
Surge Images is the photography studio of Gary Umberman.
Gary has been professionally shooting for over eight years, His personality and passion for creating beautiful portrait images has become a major draw card for editorial, portrait and wedding clients alike. Whether it is commercial, fashion, portrait or wedding photography, Gary combines his extensive photographic knowledge with a unique style and creativity. The result is photography that is both artistic and contemporary
Sanjay Austa studied English literature in college and started out as a journalist without a clear writing mandate. So he got an opportunity to cover a range of issues (and non-issues) ranging from socialite evenings to socially and culturally relevant stories. He wrote about politicians and prostitutes. About writers and vamps. Good samaritans and criminals. About triumphs and failures and joys and tragedies.
The switch to photography was gradual. His photographs and his choice of subjects however reflect his journalistic pedigree. His first assignment took him on an adventurous two-month expedition to Kanchenjunga, where unshaved and unbathed for that duration, he documented the Indian Army’s climb to the summit. Since then he dabbled in all forms of photography. But he reserves a special liking for photo-essays on different human-interest issues. These are published regularly in the Indian and the International Media. His photo-essay on the 1984 anti-Sikh Delhi riots was exhibited in California by various human rights groups. More recently he has done four picture books on four different Indian Monuments for Penguin Books.
Canadian car photographer Jonathan Swan, shoots only cars, and exclusively in the digital medium, using both 35mm and Medium Format Digital. Jonathon prides himself in his complete involvement in the photography workflow – from conception through visualisation to the final digital image.
Jonathons’s list of clients have included Audi, Jaguar, Mazda, CAR, Wheels, Motor, Car and Driver and Street Machine.
Aware of the importance of allying his digital post-processing to his photographic images, Jonathon is constantly developing and introducing new ideas and techniques through his work.
Photographer Ted Nelson’s visual journey started in New York. With over 20 years in still and motion picture photography, Ted now spends a lot of time teaching photography as well.
In his own words: I can’t imagine doing anything else that would provide the satisfaction I receive from sharing y work with others, opening windows that helps enrich their lives and appreciation for the intrinsic value of wild things and wild places.
Students often ask me what the ‘perfect picture’ is and that is simple: The perfect picture is the one that drives you to make another one. Each image should be seen as a stepping stone to the next. That is the philosophy that drives my creative vision.
“….It is important to be true to the subject and not cloud it by ego or a certain style.”
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.
Salman is an Advertising / Commercial Photographer, based in India. He has worked with Tehelka, an Indian weekly. Earlier he was with IndiaPicture. Salman has also worked on documentary films and a book on photography.
Creativity can be described as the ability to see the extraordinary in ordinary situations. This power of observation takes photography one-step ahead of the decisive moment. It is not always about the perfect moment; rather it is about leaving scope to the imagination of the viewer and giving photography an edge as an art form by going more towards the abstract and the unseen. This approach to photography is called the “Indecisive Moment”. Prarthana uses this indirect approach to shoot her images. They are moments that are abstract, that have something to narrate, and some thing to contemplate over. “The Indecisive Moment” is a glimpse of the world as Prarthana sees it. The images show a sense of freedom in her approach towards the subjects. They are bereft of any pressure from the outside world, be it in technique or in composition.
Prarthana Modi is a photographer based in New Delhi, India. She studied management and systems design after which she worked in the telecommunications industry for ten years before giving it up to pursue photography. She started with foundation courses in photography from St. Martins School of Art and Design, London and then went on to study at The School of Black & White Photography, London. However, she is mostly self-taught and self-motivated. Prarthana captures all her images on black & white film and all the prints are hand printed on bromide.
Neeraj Mahajan is an advertising and commercial photographer based in Delhi. Apart from his commercial work, Neeraj has shot a lot of documentary works also. His website is a reflection of his two distinctly different body of works.
In the span of less than a decade, Mustafa Quraishi has cut a swift and salient furrow from being an envied, and often feared, paparazzo to a diligent essayist of India’s layered realities, a photographer possessed of a thinking eye and a mind that can see.
Mustafa’s air of casual languor can often leave you with the impression that he is no more than merely twiddling with expensive toys. But very often that’s just part of a keen professional’s act – unhurried, unobtrusive grace is probably a more apt description of Mustafa on the job.
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 took an internship in news photography at the Delhi offices of The Indian Express and at 30, the thought of looking back hasn’t struck the still boyish Mustafa.
After five rich and eventful years at the Express, Mustafa joined the Associated Press and moved down South to Hyderabad, one of the more happening state capitals of India. 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. It was a project that would not only land him a prestigious grant from the National Media Foundation in 2008, but also become an engrossing personal passion. 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./
But 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, the rapturous 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 and, of course, a string of big-ticket Indian newspapers, magazines and exhibitions.
He works out of Delhi, where he lives with wife Safia. When he is not looking like a camera guerilla – a dozen lenses strung round his waist, bandolier-like, Mustafa mostly to be found asleep or washing his zealously kept SUV.
Ixint Studios specializes in nature, wildlife and travel photography from around the world. Paul Ixint, the creative force behind the studio is an avid nature lover and a wildlife photographer. Paul has travelled worldwide to capture images of wildlife that are on the brink of extinction. He hopes that his images will spread the message of conservation as well as a love for all living creatures on earth.
Annie Smith was born and raised in upstate New York and now lives and works in NYC. From her Ferry Studios, she has created many memorable fashion and beauty images. Annie has worked with prestigious and demanding clients all over New York. She has also authored a book on the modeling industry.
The book – 1001 Images of Taj Mahal by Rupinder Khullar is a culmination of two decades of relentless work.
Enamoured by Taj’s pristine beauty and everchanging quicksilver quality, Rupinder Khullar has captured this magnificent mausoleum from every conceivable angle, in different seasons of the year and at various times of the day. Ever responsive to faint shifts of light, to the play of clouds and the drama of sunrise and sunset, Taj Mahal continues to entrance visitors regardless of how often they visit this monument, built by a great Mughal monarch for his wife.
As someone who has been photographing the Taj for so many years, Rupinder Khullar shares with us his
knowledge of its architecture and the arts that went into its embellishment, in this splendid celebration of one of the
world’s greatest monuments.
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