In this issue

Industrial photography explores photos of products, machinery, equipment, and staff members. It is common in various industries, including construction, mining, manufacturing, energy, and transportation. Often, industrial photographs demonstrate people building and creating things – the aim is to capture the manufacturing process and the laborious jobs performed by workers. Every major industrial company needs pictures of their operations, and as technology and automation continue to develop, the need for these images is increasing day by day.
Industrial photography is essential as it captures the technology, innovation, and hard work behind industrial processes of all sorts. Most people aren’t aware of what happens behind the scenes in the industries, and industrial photographs can enlighten them uniquely and excitingly.

Movie Review: On Yoga - The Architecture of Peace

About Michael A renowned photojournalist Michael O’Neill experienced physical healing through yoga. His film pays tribute to the practice and teachers of yoga through this 10-years in making the film. The film explores all the significant facets of yoga through still photography, interviews, and video.

3 mins

Book Review: Photography in India: A Visual History from the 1850s to the Present by Nathaniel Gaskell & Diva Gujral

Following the invention of photography in Europe in the late 1830s, it took mere months to arrive in India. Since then, the subcontinent has gone on to have a rich, varied and, at times, fraught relationship with the medium. Nathaniel Gaskell and Diva Gujral’s Photography in India: A Visual History from the 1850s to the Present (Prestel) gives a comprehensive journey from photography’s first appearance at the height of the British Empire to the work of contemporary practitioners.

2 mins

Old is Gold - Famine in Somalia - 1992

About James Nachtwey: The Photojournalist

3 mins

KAW Questioning the Identity

The whole story revolves around the acronym ‘KAW’, constituting three bodies of work, Khalna Bati, Armour of Weaknesses & Otherworldly. Swarup finds it more than a curious and amusing coincidence that all the interrogative questioning words in Bengali start with the letter ‘Kaw’? the first Bengali consonant? Ki(What?), Key(Who?), Keno(Why?), Kokhon(When?), Kothay(Where?) and Ki Bhabey(How?).

3 mins

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Chiiz Magazine Description:

Chiiz is a first of its kind publication devoted to descriptive Photography. Drawing on the requirements of a photo enthusiast, Chiiz features photographers and their unique and incisive stories from across the globe. With the EXIF details of every capture, we try to give the reader a perspective that helps him/her understand the shot better and recreate it.
Photographers from around the world have been featured showcasing their outstanding work in different genres of photography.