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Sybil: An Autobiography with Lisa Acton Smith & Sophie Smith

Sybil: An Autobiography with Lisa Acton Smith & Sophie Smith

I walk to the edge of myself and peer into the great abyss that lives behind me. 1. A dirty blond-haired girl with eyes the color of raindrops plays a childhood game of hide and seek. Her name is stamped on her forehead - Unbalanced. She has been saddled with it since...

Poetic Images of Multiple Truth by Jussi Kapanen

Poetic Images of Multiple Truth by Jussi Kapanen

Images of Multiple Truth Along the Way Why do people want to photograph strangers in a public space? I am a middle-aged father of three children and an art teacher living in Tampere, Finland. I did my masterĀ“s degree at the University of Arts and Design in Helsinki...

Whistling Echoes: Women of the Sea by Donna Garcia

Whistling Echoes: Women of the Sea by Donna Garcia

They plunge to the bottom of the frozen sea, holding their breath, blinded by the murky abyss, searching not only for pearls, octopi or abalone, but also for freedom. What would happen if their line were to break? Would the men comfortably sitting above in their...

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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The Storytellers Vol. 11

The Storytellers Vol. 11

They silently screamed, reaching for the last rays of light. The sun slowly faded behind the clouds. A sun whose warmth they would not feel for another season . . .

Studying Life Through The Lens by Antonio Denti

Studying Life Through The Lens by Antonio Denti

As a photographer, I study the lives of others as as a profession. The people I have photographed were the ones really affected by what was happening. In every place and situation, even though I was there, I was the least affected. What allowed me to feel that I could look at them in the eyes and keep working was not a moral motive, but a personal one.

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Barbie’s secret life

Barbie’s secret life

It’s a muffled world in which Barbie lives, far away from the limelight; a full collection of 48 dolls is shown in elegant images where vibrant colours are softened by dim light. It’s a gallery full of details where Maria Soldi accompanies her delicate images with words both personal and borrowed. Barbie is shown to us in her everyday life. There’s nothing spectacular in what she does, but she is magical, like special people are. This Barbie is us.

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The Storytellers Vol. 10

The Storytellers Vol. 10

Ed waited all day for his ex wife to drop off his daughter Chloe. Surrounded by so many people, but feeling so alone. Once again Ed would spend his birthday in solitude.

A Phone-y Film Experiment

A Phone-y Film Experiment

It all started with a flea market find. I stumbled across a box of old cameras… But then, I had an idea.

The idea was this: shoot a picture using film, shoot from the same spot using my iPhone, then attempt to edit the latter to look something like the former.

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Sistan & Baluchestan – Ebrahim Mirmalek

Sistan & Baluchestan – Ebrahim Mirmalek

Ebrahim Mirmalek takes us on a hypnotic visual and sensory journey that is infused with stories within stories … He stays in the homes of locals, entering their lives as a stranger but leaving forever changed after immersing himself into the everyday reality of a people often ignored and forgotten.

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Today I Met: USA

Today I Met: USA

We present to you those great portraits and stories in part two of a collection from Sydney, Australia to Seattle, USA. Here is our collection of #todayimet, USA edition.

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Today I Met: International

Today I Met: International

Dawn of October 3, 2015 ushered in a weekend of meeting new people during Instagram’s World Wide Instameet 12. The theme to encourage these worldwide encounters was #todayimet. We at Grryo went one step more and asked our followers to tag portraits of people they met, along with a short story about their new friends. We present to you those great portraits and stories from Sydney to Seattle in our collection of #todayimet.

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