In this issue

This issue of Creative IMAGE Magazine takes the reader through a journey of faith, exploring the nuances of religions practised across the globe. With the help of compelling visuals, this issue brings forth the frankness in Magnum photographer Abbas’ stories from India, simplicity of Yang Yankang’s photo essay on Tibetan Buddhists, surrealism in Melisa Teo’s Let There Be Light, in which she feeds her curiosity through her “third eye”. Photostories by various contributing photographers give a vivid glimpse of hope, fear, faith, and religion. Through social media collaborations with Camarena and India Pictures, and gallery walks, Creative Image throws a limelight on young, talented photographers in this issue. Digging into archives, the issue features the work of Russian photojournalist Maxim Dmitriev on 19 Century pilgrimage and faith.

Photo 'Ok' Please

If there has been one major shift in photography over the past few years, it is the advent of the cellphone camera. Even the cheapest of smartphones today pay extra attention to the quality of images that their devices can produce. Never has a camera been so portable and so affordable. Never has an entire generation been so vocal. In every sense of the term, photography has never been so democratic in its entire history. More photographs are made today on a daily basis than ever before.

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Waking From Dreams Of India

Neil Chowdhury was born in England to an Indian father and British mother. After earning his MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle, he was able to amass the funds needed for a plane ticket to pursue his explorations of his father’s homeland.“Photography for me is the perfect instrument of social observation. The reasons I began photographing have to do with the medium’s ability to record, describe, and provide a reference for the analysis of what has been seen. I used this at first as a way of finding and understanding social interaction, and then as a way of continued investigation of other societies, and as a creative strategy of art making,” he says.

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Creative Image Magazine Description:

A 100-page bi-monthly art photography publication, filled with a host of features and opinion articles, on the aesthetics of photography.

Photography is one of the youngest forms of creative expression, and has seen quite a few changes in its relatively short maturing period. The purpose of Creative Image is to pick up photographs and bodies of work that are intuitive, well-explored, eloquent and offer a look inwards, as well as outwards.

The bi-monthly magazine, produced by Raghu Rai, one of India's most renowned photographers and the first Indian to become an associated of the celebrated Magnum Photos, will look at contemporary, emerging artists as well
 as legendary names. Each issue will
 be thematic and will largely cover work produced in the Indian subcontinent. There will also be showcases of works
 by one master photographer from Asia, and one master from the West, along with conceptual, nature, landscape, abstract and experimental photographers from around the world.