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photographers as photo archivists

August 25, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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Dear Aspiring Photographers I think a new job oppurtunity has emerged in these FB discussions about how to earn a living with photography in a time when everyone is taking their own photographs. I wonder if some of you might consider offering an archiving service to people who are making…

iPhone Parents

August 25, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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And Dear iPhone Parents, If you are too busy to print/backup photos, hire a young photographer as your photo archivist. They can come in, or work online, once a month to organise and archive your memories. Now theres a new way to earn a living while still engaging with photography,…

The Family Album in Passing Clouds

August 25, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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Yes, one wonders what will happen to the young Family archive, stored on passing phones and clouds, a giant garbage heap of memories. Even if they exist in this form, will they be accessible if someone is not continuously tending to them? Dear young parent friends, perhaps make a print…

From 36 to 300 Photos

August 25, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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“Isn’t it ridiculous, in today’s day and age? If someone cannot handle the innocent flashes from a mobile phone camera, they have no business to be playing professional tennis. - "From 36 to 300 Photos" by Paddy Rangappa in the Hindu Submitted by dayanita on Mon, 08/24/2015 – 08:32

Photography Fantasy – II

August 25, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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My mother, Nony Singh, dressed her mother in her father's clothes and made this photograph. And then dressed herself in her father's police uniform and made a self portrait (as it was called in those days). She was terrified that Hilter would come to India during the war. Submitted…

Photography Fantasy – I

August 25, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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Photography Fantasy is perhaps the most popular form of Photography today: the Selfie. Before the Selfie there was the studio portrait fantasy and the home studio fantasy, often meant just for the family album. The family album is the great source for understanding aspirations of a society. This beauty is…

Dear Aspiring Photographers – IX

August 25, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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Dear Aspiring Photographers, All that I have been saying about Cinema, Literature and Music is encapsulated in this brilliant essay: "Thou Art Sick - Intuition, the Inner Detective" by Aveek Sen in the Telegraph. "I think that intuition, the detective in us," says Lynch, "puts things together in a way…

Photography as easy as LBC

August 25, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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LIGHT- Photography after all is drawing with light. So you must learn to read light, see where it falls, what shadows it creates, how it changes, what it says........So first of all, before lifting your camera even watch the light falling on that which you are drawn to photograph. Move…

A Photograph is not worth a thousand words.

August 25, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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A Photograph is NOT worth a thousand words. A photograph is best where there are no words, when it reveals the unsayable, says that which has no vocabulary. ****** Post Script: * But to get to this 'unsayable photograph' requires Rigour, Restraint and the inescapable Reading. Its back to being…

Dear Aspiring Photographers- forewards – VII

August 25, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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And please don't ask me or any one else to write a Foreword to your book, Dear Photographer. You have worked many years to get to this stage, do all you can to keep your own voice throughout the book. The notion of forewords was necessary a few decades ago,…

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