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Tasveer Online | Pradip Malde | portraits Interview with my most favorite photographer (professor, mentor, friend), Pradip Malde, on the amazing portraits from his collection of photographs, “Prayer & Despair.”

India, November, 1995. It is midweek, and there are priests, pilgrims and worshippers milling around us. Religion does not abide by the seven day cycle here. My parents are unusually quiet as we stand amid the bustle, gazing out at a tiered stretch of river. Damodarkund. They explain that this is where the ashes of my ancestors have been released over the centuries, into the still waters, along with flowers, prayers, tears, memories. Like smoke. I feel a lightness, something lifting. This is where I came from, this is where I am going. My hand is in the water, a conduit and a key…

…Acceptance of anything can bring despair, and anything unbearable can inspire prayer. Kneeling down on the river bank, my hand in the clear water, I felt both.

photo:

Shiva, Jodhpur.

India, 1995. platinum-palladium print. 8x10 inches

Apr 17, 2012 3:44pm

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Blind Spot Series 03: Uta Barth’s to draw with light.
This publication includes work from the photographer’s series …and to draw a bright white line with light along with images from Compositions of Light on White, and a new series being created for the publication of this book.

(via Blind Spot Magazine)

Mar 26, 2012 5:43pm

Keeping in mind the work of Masao Yamamoto as I see Spring unfolding.

“I dared to associate the word ‘tender’ with ‘melancholy’ rather than the word ‘suffocating’; this is what Yamamoto’s photos reveal to me - a tender melancholy.”

- ARPAÏS du bois

(via Kawa = Flow #1590, 2010 - Masao Yamamoto - Artists - Jackson Fine Art - Photography - Atlanta)

Mar 23, 2012 9:17am