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Ode to My Mobile Phone Camera
How my mobile phone helped me to discover photography and what I learned along the way Not too long ago the number was 36. That was how many pictures you could take with one roll of film. I went through about three of them per year. Two for the holidays and another...
Empty Seats
What you are about to read are disparate and fictional short stories I have written to coincide with images that are part of a series of photographs of mine entitled “Empty Seats”. The series embraces the enigma of everyday objects that are specifically created by and...
Fears and Memories in Helsinki
March of fears and memories. At the end of every downward road the sea appears frozen. Huge slices of ice are floating on the water like melancholic islands. Blue eerie light all day long. The wind is whipping the faces as a reminder that winter never really...
The Instagram #StorytellerCircle
Each week, on Mondays, we challenge our Instagram community with a story prompt. Here is how it works:
We select a photo from our #wearegrryo hashtag and post it to the @wearegrryo account.
You can add a story in 1-2 sentences in the comments. The best gets a feature here on our website.
Good Luck!
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Life through Hipstamatic with Michel Veld
My name is Michel de Veld I'm a nurse, working on a team for home care, helping people with dementia and psychiatric disorders. I live and work in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Combos Lens/ Film used on the pictures above are: Aatto / Blackeys44 ...
The Translation by Caroline de Bertodano
THE TRANSLATION Ritsona Refugee Camp, Northern Greece. 20th & 21st May 2016 As of 20th May 2016, there are 54,230 refugees living in Greece & the Islands that only has a capacity for 42,100, according to UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees). On a dark,...
7 Short Stories and a Farewell by Sergi García Gavaldà
After several years without taking pictures, I started to take pictures of the streets and people from my city. I have always been interested in street photography, but even if a lot of people tag me in this style, I don't feel like a street photographer. I like to...
24hourproject: Grryo Editor Version
I think the last time I tried to stay up for 24 hours straight was circa 1993, during my freshman year of college. The results then were less than stellar, I ended up falling asleep in my dorm room and missing my Italian midterm. Thankfully, this time, I did a little better. I started out with a 1.5 hour nap at 10:30pm and then it was off to Northampton, Massachusetts to meet up with my friend.
Skills to Share – Photo Storytelling
From time to time we tend to feel demotivated in photography. We always need some motivation through people, courses, or even by looking through various talents. This short course by Kevin Russ was very interesting. He refined my perspective on taking pictures. Many times we are in a place or moment; we think or see, then decide if we want to capture it, or let the moment be. Kevin showed us through his on the road experience that the “just go shoot” spontaneous method can be a very useful tool.
Through the Looking Glass by Romina Mandrini
I discovered photography around four years ago…or perhaps it is photography that found me. It all started with some very severe sleep deprivation. Some might even say I was delirious at the time. I’d recently had my fourth baby, and to say he didn’t like to sleep is...
Forgiveness by Bill Draheim and William Gosline
This fictional piece is Bill Draheim's second guest article for Grryo. You can read the first one here. Forgiveness When I saw it was Boris walking the median—that big loping stride, the buzzed head with the white scar at the heel of his skull—I pulled over. The...
Seeking the Childhood Magic by Susanne Maude
I‘ve always loved stories. I love listening to them, reading, and writing them, but I only started taking pictures after my first child was born. I shot to document, to remember the moments, how the light hit the green walls on our bedroom, how she smiled and waved her fingers towards the window when she woke up. The first steps, first everything. Those were the kind of pictures I wanted to have when I couldn’t sleep and was afraid I wouldn’t remember any of it.
Aerial Nudes and iPhone by John Crawford
Between 1981 and 1986 I completed a series of 18 images. All were shot on 35mm colour negative, from a helicopter from about 1000 feet. Each image was meticulously planned and propped before jumping in the chopper. No post cropping or photoshop was used. I didn’t own a computer, everything was created in camera… Now on to the present time and my beautiful obsession with smartphone photography which kicked off with the first iPhone in 2007. At present all of my personal work is created on the iPhone.