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...
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.
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
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
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
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.
“Stories are powerful because they transport us into other people’s worlds. But in doing that, they change the way our brains work, and potentially change our brain chemistry – and that’s what it means to be a social creature.” – Paul J Zak
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