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READERS' GALLERY
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READERS' GALLERY

Better Cellphone Photography’s readers were challenged to photograph the theme Creative Silhouettes.

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September 2020
Photography Museum, Museo Camera, to Open Again
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Photography Museum, Museo Camera, to Open Again

India’s first not-for-profit centre for photographic arts, Museo Camera, will be reopen again after a four-month-long lockdown has affected the museum’s sources of revenue.

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September 2020
Portraits of Resilience
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Portraits of Resilience

Through her evocative portraits, Ashfika Rahman unravels the persisting crimes against Bangladesh’s indigenous community.

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September 2020
Nowhere - Nitesh Mohanty
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Nowhere - Nitesh Mohanty

Conchita Fernandes delves into the visual passages of Nitesh Mohanty’s Nowhere, a book that probes into what it means to bloom and wither in the presence and absence of the thing that you love.

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September 2020
Masrat Zahra Wins the 2020 Peter Mackler Award
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Masrat Zahra Wins the 2020 Peter Mackler Award

Kasmiri photojournalist, Masrat Zahra, was conferred with the 2020 Peter Mackler Award for chronicling the conflict in Jammu and Kashmir, with a specific focus on the perspectives of women.

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September 2020
John Margolies
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John Margolies

Conchita Fernandes looks at the work of John Margolies who spent a lifetime documenting the flamboyant and garish trappings of obscure towns.

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August 2020
Canon Launches Two New Mirrorless Cameras
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Canon Launches Two New Mirrorless Cameras

Canon’s legacy, with SLRs and then DSLRs, has been nothing short of brilliance.

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August 2020
Nikon Reveals its Latest Z Series Camera
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Nikon Reveals its Latest Z Series Camera

Nikon has finally announced its much-awaited full-frame camera, the Z5. It features a 24.3MP sensor, in conjunction with the EXPEED 6 Image Processing Engine.

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August 2020
Sony Announces its Latest G Master Lens
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Sony Announces its Latest G Master Lens

Sony has officially launched a new lens in it’s G Master series—the FE 12—24mm f/2.8 GM. It has a wide constant aperture of f/2.8.

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August 2020
The GoPro Challenge 2020 Winner Awarded the GoPro Max
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The GoPro Challenge 2020 Winner Awarded the GoPro Max

Intensely contested, with some brilliant photography coming into the final round, the award for The GoPro Challenge 2020 goes to 17-year old Priyanshu Singh from Varanasi. Congratulations Priyanshu for a brilliant, well-deserved win!

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August 2020
The Artistry of the Sony Alpha 7R III
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The Artistry of the Sony Alpha 7R III

Auditya Venkatesh talks about what sparked off his association with Sony and why the Alpha 7R III has been his go-to camera to this day.

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August 2020
Leica Unveils a New Edition in its M10 Series
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Leica Unveils a New Edition in its M10 Series

Leica has launched a new camera, the highest resolution member of its M10 lineup—the M10-R.

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August 2020
Dream A Little Dream
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Dream A Little Dream

Our thoughts are a lot like the moments that we encounter and record using the camera.

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August 2020
Competent & Surprising
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Competent & Surprising

Nikon Z50 is the company’s first Z mount APS-C mirrorless interchangeable lens camera. It is the first in this format, ending all doubt about Nikon’s seriousness about this segment. K Madhavan Pillai put it to the test.

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August 2020
The Grandeur Of Smallness
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The Grandeur Of Smallness

Mahesh Bhat on sharing extraordinary stories of ordinary heroes through one of the most successful photography projects, Unsung.

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7 mins  |
July 2020
Winners of HIPA 2019-20 Finally Revealed
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Winners of HIPA 2019-20 Finally Revealed

The Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA) has announced its winners for this year’s edition.

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July 2020
Kashmir's Masrat Zahra Wins International Award
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Kashmir's Masrat Zahra Wins International Award

Last month, the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) named Masrat Zahra as the winner of this year’s Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award.

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July 2020
READERS' GALLERY
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READERS' GALLERY

Better Cellphone Photography’s readers were challenged to photograph the theme Minimalism.

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July 2020
Wading Through The Deep End of My Mind
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Wading Through The Deep End of My Mind

We go through life oblivious of the natural processes that are at work to keep our bodies going.

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July 2020
UNTOLD STORIES
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UNTOLD STORIES

Our lives are a collection of stories that are broken into multiple chapters. Each chapter is segmented into moments that are fed by choices and decisions that guide the trajectory of our narrative. In them reside tales of courage, hardship and resistance that sometimes go hidden and untold.

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July 2020
Gertrude Käsebier
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Gertrude Käsebier

Conchita Fernandes traces the career of Gertrude Käsebier, whose life extended far beyond the domain allotted to the women of her time.

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9 mins  |
July 2020
Cellphone Photography - In Search of Solace
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Cellphone Photography - In Search of Solace

George Kamelakis speaks to Nilofer Khan about embracing change, and the intention behind his sombre and sometimes mysterious images.

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5 mins  |
July 2020
Beautifully Crafted - Sigma 45mm f/2.8 DG DN Contemporary
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Beautifully Crafted - Sigma 45mm f/2.8 DG DN Contemporary

The Sigma 45mm f/2.8 DG DN Contemporary, by design and purpose, is the first in a series of lenses by the company particularly for small, full frame mirrorless camera bodies. K Madhavan Pillai reports.

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July 2020
A Life of Rebellion
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A Life of Rebellion

What does the word freedom imply? What does it mean to be free? To be an African American in the 19th century was akin to being owned by a white master.

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July 2020
Peary vs Cook: Who Reached The North Pole First?
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Peary vs Cook: Who Reached The North Pole First?

Very few discoveries in the world have been as passionately debated upon for a century as the first expedition to the North Pole. In 1909, two American explorers—Robert Edwin Peary Sr., United States Navy officer, and Frederick Albert Cook, physician and ethnographer—emerged from the Arctic, a few days apart.

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June 2020
Hong Kong's Cry for Freedom
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Hong Kong's Cry for Freedom

This year, an eleven-member team of photojournalists from Reuters won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. Two of them are from India—Adnan Abidi and Anushree Fadnavis. Nilofer Khan speaks to the duo, and writes about the uprising in Hong Kong.

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June 2020
Unlikely Medleys
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Unlikely Medleys

While in conversation with Aditya Nair, Conchita Fernandes discovers the qualities that instigate a sense of confoundment with his photographs.

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June 2020