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Building up a connection with Beijing

Building up a connection with Beijing

Building up a sense of connection with Beijing through the iPhone lens - by Paul Yan It is one thing to live and work in a city of another land other than the motherland you were born in; it is another to get used to and be in peace with it even though you have lived...

Washing up a melancholic truth – A rainy day in Marrakech

Washing up a melancholic truth – A rainy day in Marrakech

It was almost as if the rain had washed away any traces of an identity we - the tourists, travelers, photographers, writers - gave Marrakech over the years, and had now revealed a much more accurate truth of a city usually depicted as way more colorful and exciting...

Gone stray by Sabrina Boem

Gone stray by Sabrina Boem

Gone stray. How I find myself involved in a documentary project about stray and colony cats In the beginning, it was not a photo project. It was just me going to take photos in a park where a huge colony of stray cats live. I had started taking photos of cats when I...

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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Brief Encounter with the Jazz Devil by Jonė Reed

Brief Encounter with the Jazz Devil by Jonė Reed

He called himself Jazz Devil. “Hello my name’s Barry I’m a music guy and I wear hats” he said “I like your work – would you shoot me in your street/portrait style”? …I just started shooting him – he laughed and said: oh you’re quick… straight to work, let me put my sunglasses on – he wouldn’t be photographed without them – his trademark.

The HongKongers by Nicolas Petit

The HongKongers by Nicolas Petit

There are old men with birdcages and women in pleather trousers with poodles; children asleep over their homework on a temporary table set up streetside as a night tram trundles by, the neighbourhoods still alive with the breath of the night… There is a name for those who have chosen this place as home. The Hong Kongers.

Solitude in Peace: This is @__circo

Solitude in Peace: This is @__circo

Everything perfectly balanced and nothing left to chance, and long waits for the missing character: this is Juan Sebastián Alcalá Ortiz, @__circo on Instagram. We have asked him to share with us how he creates these extraordinary shots.

Sunday Abstracts : February + March

Sunday Abstracts : February + March

Grryo believes that abstract artists deserve to be recognised. Every Sunday join us in celebrating creative photography and art, from collage, design, multi layered textural compositions, to minimal colour pieces. We want to see diversity and images that cross and merge the boundaries of our imaginations.

We hope to support the abstract arts community by having a place for artists to share imagery that goes beyond the everyday snapshot and pixel and is transformed into a digital artwork that makes you feel something. Abstract art needs to be seen and experienced.

Intimacy and photography by Buku Sarkar

Intimacy and photography by Buku Sarkar

I mostly photograph in a big slum, the largest Muslim slum, in Calcutta.  Narrow alleys, no wider than the width of one person, separate little houses. There are no doors to these houses, only curtains. The alleyways are dark, even at night, only a light shining...

Happy Face by Yoshihisa Egami

Happy Face by Yoshihisa Egami

My friend often says to me: "You're an expressionless man."  Certainly, it might be so. I can't laugh very well. My friend asks me: " Why do you always have a sad face? " 友達が、僕によくこう言う。「あなたは無表情な人ね。」 確かにその通りだと思う。僕は上手く笑うことができない。 友達が僕にきく。「なんでいつもそんなに悲しそうな顔をしているの?」 MYSTERY...

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