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...
Postal by Gemma Antón, Orietta Gelardin Spinola, Ione Saizar
Postal is a project about short messages, or fragments (from the Latin word fragmentum, meaning “an isolated or incomplete part of something”). What is that something? In this case, it is our own daily realities. The daily realities of three different people. Each of...
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...
States of Mind by Emma Amar
"We would have said that I existed of two manners, between what I was for me and what I was for the others. There was no relationship." - Simone de Beauvoir I think of defining myself by these few lines... In my head is a winter decor, a Baudelaire's Spleen...
Framing Feelings by Racheli Shavit
My main occupation in the last ten years or so is song writing, which mainly means writing lyrics to songs in close cooperation with musicians and performing artists. The last two years have been dramatically overwhelming in my personal life. For 25 years I’ve lived...
West Lake Rhapsody by Nga Hoang
In a city that is built on lowlands between rivers, there is no shortage of waterfront retreats, and West Lake is up there with the best of them. It serves as a rare green lung amid the ever-growing concrete jungle, an oasis of calm away from the hustle and bustle.
Life is full of surprises… by Marina Sersale
Of all the things I could do in my life, I never imagined that a photography exhibition in Tehran would be one of them. Instead, a few weeks ago I found myself (@eauditalie) on a plane bound for Tehran, for the first group exhibition of Hikari Creative, the photography collective that Q. Sakamaki, Ako Salemi, Eric Mencher and I launched on Instagram in December 2014.
A New Pair of Eyes
Being born and raised in Jakarta, there have been times in the past I have complained about the city. Jakarta’s traffic can be crazy, the unending line of malls everywhere can be dull and the pollution is bad too. Nonetheless, I have learned to look at my city with a new pair of eyes.
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.
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.
“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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