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Yesterday Tribute to events from the past: The iconic Under Construction Photographs
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Fine Art The indescribable art of Photography
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When I Click The Story behind the photographer's click
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Elemento Embracing the elements of photography
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The Photo Project Natalie's "The Room Of Drowned" & "The Soul covered in moss"
The Street Story The color of unseen India Geo-tagging
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Endless Journey through the captured dimensions thoughts and photograph
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Editor's Note More Time to Click Than Ever Before We are all stuck inside our homes. It’s time we make use of these days being productive and creative and also spend some time knowing ourselves better. As Photographers and Artists, we’re all look for inspiration or motivation and we keep waiting for it, rather than looking for it in ourselves. But maybe sometimes it’s also important to have something external push you and fuel the thoughts of creativity. This is our first edition of NEGATIVES and we wanted to connect with photographers, artist and art enthusiastic people from all around the world and India especially. As a photographer myself who cares about this Art, it’s been a great journey creating this magazine and make it reach people. It was great connecting with different photographers from all around the world and knowing how there is a need for change in the approach we make magazines. We’ve got work from great photographers and a look into the thoughts, process and insights that they have. It’s interesting to see how uniquely excellent everyone’s work is. It’s important to be aware of the fact how photography has changed its meaning and significance with time and this can be seen in the article ‘Yesterday’ with some iconic shots from the past. After looking at the past, we come back to the present and see how the world looks when it’s documented with photographs in ‘The Moody Globe’. We look at photographs from photogenic locations in Bangalore, then, we get into the thought process of Gowreeshankar on ‘When I Click’, and at the same time we also look at the three great award-winning photojournalists from India who won the Pulitzer this year! We talk about two extreme photography styles of artists, from ‘The Imperfection in Photography’ to ‘Fine Art Photography’ featuring ‘Nann Goldin, Todd Hido’ and ‘Karim Bouchareb’ respectively. The main feature of this edition of the magazine is a look into Natalie Ina’s photo project on «The Room Of Drowned» & «The Soul covered in moss». We have Elemento talking about Elements of photography and gives you a gallery experience of looking at these photographs. At last ‘Endless’ is a beautiful way of looking at the fusion of Poetry and Photography were the photographers where free to interpret the poem and create photographs which speak.
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N E G A T I V E S T E A M EDITOR IN CHIEF Ashish Dodamani
NEWS/FEATURE WRITER Ashish Dodamani Aishwarya Shyamkumar Kartik Dutta
LAYOUT DESIGN Aishwarya Shyamkumar Ishwin Razdan Kartik Dutta Aakriti Chaudhry
DIGITAL PUBLISHING Ujjwal Singh Ashish Dodamani
CONTENT CURATOR Kartik Dutta Aakriti Chaudhry Aishwarya Shyamkumar Ishwin Razdan
COPY & RESEARCH Aakriti Chaudhry Ujjwal Singh Ashish Dodamani Aishwarya Shyamkumar Ishwin Razdan Kartik Dutta
DESIGN Ishwin Razdan Kartik Dutta Aakriti Chaudhry Aishwarya Shyamkumar
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he wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. The iconic wonders that shook the world with its wonderful design named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel. The wager was to "study the possibility of erecting an iron tower on the Champ-de-Mars with a square base, 125 metres across and 300 metres tall". Selected from among 107 projects, it was that of Gustave Eiffel, an entrepreneur, Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, both engineers, and Stephen Sauvestre, an architect, that was accepted. Emile Nouguier and Maurice Koechlin, the two chief engineers in Eiffel's company, had the idea for a very tall tower in June 1884. It was to be designed like a large pylon with four columns of lattice work girders, separated at the base and coming together at the top, and joined to each other by more metal girders at regular intervals. The tower project was a bold extension of this principle up to a height of 300 metres - equivalent to the symbolic figure of 1000 feet. On September 18 1884 Eiffel registered a patent "for a new configuration allowing the construction of metal supports and pylons capable of exceeding a height of 300 metres. The construction itself lasted two years : June 1884 : The project began and the first drawings
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were done. January 28th, 1887 : The works begin. April 1st, 1888 : The first stage was completed. August 14th, 1888 : The second stage was completed. March 31st, 1889 : The third and final stage in which the tower was completed in its entirety ended. The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated on March 31, 1889. Gustave Eiffel walked the 1,710 steps to the top of the Tower to place the tricolored French flag at its summit. At the time, the Tower was 312 meters high. The Design was made with 18,038 metallic parts, 5300 workshop designs, 30 engineers and designers. The construction of the Iconic Eiffel Tower was done in 2 years, 2 months and 5 days of construction with around 150 workers, 7,300 tonnes of iron, 60 tonnes of iron and 5 lifts. The moment lies in these anonymous archive photographs. The smile, sweat and effort of hundreds of workers who were left unnoticed. Yesterday
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The assembly of the supports began on July 1, 1887 and was completed 22 months later. All the elements were prepared in Eiffelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s factory located on the outskirts of Paris. All the metal pieces of the tower are held together with rivets, a well refined method of construction and the first pieces were assembled in the factory using bolts. A team of 4 men was needed for each rivet assembled. Left : Anonymous photographs during the construction of the Eiffel Tower Right : Workers on a scaffolding, Eiffel Tower, 1888
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Fine Art The indescribable art of photography
Karim Bouchareb Algerian Art Vision Photographer
Karim began photography almost 5 years ago, mostly taking some family pictures on various occasions or trips. But then realized that this is not just a hobby but a whole world full of secrets, which made him dig deeper into it more and more, where he read many books and watched several videos to explore this field that he knew that now it is difficult and required a big focus. He rely on his pictures on the dramatic and surreal side, that it portrays. Full of mystery, associated with black and white images, which is the psychological side of his and it is the soul of my mono images. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had several meetings and dialogues with magazines and forums, whether Arabic or foreigners, and he recently got the third position in the Italian Siena International Photography Awards. Therefore, he had made an academic study of photography in his city to understand many things, especially the technical side of cameras and other techniques and that led him to get a recognized certificate in photography.
Social media has played an important role in bringing together many different aspects and contact with the high level and got to know many distinguished photographers across the world, which increased my understanding and cognition to understand the true level of global photography. Algeria has many charming and pictures areas and regions, and this is what appears in his pictures of mountains, plains, and valleys because diversity is something very important for a landscape photographer.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Photography has been something very special and indescribable pleasure, the feeling stems from the depth of self as I am fascinated by nature and the magic of the earth.â&#x20AC;?
Karim Bouchareb is an Algerian art vision photographer I work as a legal representative in the economic firm specialized in the iron industry. AWARDS : Italian Siena International Photography Awards (3rd)
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I CLICK Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life. Pain or mindless, every shot has a story behind. A vision that's captured into a memory.
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Channi Anand The story of India’s crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world. The unprecedented lockdown included a sweeping curfew and shutdowns of phone and internet service. But Associated Press photographers Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan, Dar Yasin and found ways to let outsiders see what was happening. Now, their work has been honoured with the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography. A day after Anand was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, he sat out on his journey to the border of Jammu. ‘‘I went to the border area near R.S Pura. I left early in the morning for a photoshoot. People in the border areas are busy working in the fields as it was the harvesting season. There was a lot of checking by the police and the police was also helping people, so I thought of doing a photoshoot of these activities’’
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Anand’s photograph of a Border Security Force soldier who keeps a vigil near the Indian-Pakistan Border at Garkhal in Akhnoor which is about 35 kilometers to the west of Jammu was one of the photographs from the series that was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer.
Channi Anand is a resident of Jammu & Kashmir who currently works as a reporter for the US News Agency associated press. In Aug 2019, he won the most prestigious journalism award.
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Mukhtar Khan is a resident of Kashmir who extensively covered the Kashmir conflict in 2020 and also the earthquake in South Asia during 2000s. He has also won the Atlanta photo journalism award in 2015
Mukhtar’s photograph of the six year old Munifa Nazir, a kashmiri girl, whose right eye was hit by a rubber bullet shot allegedly by Indian paramilitary soldiers on Aug 12 stands out from the series of photographs that he had taken.
“It was always cat-and-mouse,” Yasin recalled . “These things made us more determined than ever to never be silenced.” Yasin and Khan are based in Srinagar, Kashmir’s largest city, while Anand is based in the neighboring Jammu district. India said the moves were needed to forestall protests and attacks by rebels seeking independence or Pakistani control for the region. Thousands of people were arrested. With communications shut down, AP journalists had to find out about protests and other news by finding them in person. Khan and Yasin took turns roving the streets in and around the regional capital of Srinagar, Yasin said, facing mistrust from both protesters and troops. The journalists were unable for days to go home or even let their families know they were OK. “It was very hard,” Khan said, but “we managed to file pictures.” After spotting luggage-toting people walking toward the airport, he said, the photographers decided to ask travellers to serve as couriers. Yasin also recalled how a relative of his, who was also a photojournalist, had told him about delivering the film to New Delhi in person as the conflict in Kashmir raged in the 1990s.
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Dar is a resident of Kashmir who has covered the Kashmir conflict, the aftermath of the South Asian earthquake, the Afgan war and the Rohingya refugee crisis. He has won several awards like the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards, National Headliner Awards and the Sigma Delta Chi Award. He was a part of the AP team which has won Hal Boyle Award and Robert F. Kennedy Award for Rohingya crisis coverage. He also won the 2019 Yannis Behrakis International Photo Journalism Award.
Yasin’s photo of a masked Kashmiri protester, who jumps onto the bonnet of an armoured vehicle of police, was on of the image that was a part of the series of the photographs taken by the Associated Press photographers.
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ELEMENTO
Elements in Photographs PATTERN In photography, patterns are everywhere. This isn’t just something small like a texture that repeats itself throughout the photo, but really in any repeating element at all. Even the reflection of a mountain in a pool of water is a pattern – one which should not be underestimated since it ties the photo together. That’s what patterns do, really. They tie photos together. They give photos a reason to exist SYMMETRY Symmetry in photography composition is achieved when two halves of an image hold the same weight. This is also known as formal balance, or symmetrical balance. However, this symmetry doesn’t have to be literal in the sense of one half of an image exactly mirroring the other. SPACE Positive space is any part of the photo that attracts attention. Areas with significant visual weight are usually positive space. The same is true of areas with high levels of texture. Negative space is the “filler” between regions of positive space. It doesn’t necessarily fade into the background like cool colours tend to do, but it isn’t the portion of the photo that attracts the most attention. Photos with high amounts of positive space feel crowded, while photos with high amounts of negative space feel empty. Neither of these sounds like a particularly good emotion, but both can be very powerful in a photo. I’ve taken cityscape images with a sense of business and urgency because of their high positive space.
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PATTERN Liane via Pexels Sergio Souza via Pexels
SYMMETRY Vincent Van Zalinge via Pexels Ciyan Ren via Unsplash
SPACE Guiseppe Samiani via Pexels Cotton Bro via Unsplash
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Natalie "The Room Of Drowned" & "The Soul covered in moss"
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n the centre of the empty room, a lonely shadow appeared. Where there is no time, where the window pours dead white light, there, behind the thin, fragile membrane of glass, the branches of lonely trees waver, and clouds float quietly across the grey sky. A living world with nothing to look for, in the void, the outlines of objects appear, they become clear, like the memory of past lives. Memory is bloody, painful, cruel. Memory, the room is filled with suffocating smell of stagnant water. A smell that mingles with the whitish shroud of light and the dust of yellowed pages. On those pages the words, mazes of words and images. Labyrinths, for vain searches of the reason for losses. Emptiness, a void filled with fear, forgotten words on the thin edge of consciousness, quiet as the whisper of shadows: "The room of drowned.
The border of rebirth. The point of finding Death." Her steps are light, weightless. The hair touches the water noiselessly. It is easy to immerse in water, like taking the first breath, like glance without emotion at the trees that are melting in the white light, like closing your eyes. But the light won't let go of someone who came empty-handed. Everything has a price. Hair keeps the memory of days gone by, of the way passed when they grew stronger. Hair keeps the strength to go on, the strength to live. She takes the scissors in her hands, feel the pain of loss, loss of herself, and cut off every curl, as a connecting thread with life. Darkness is everywhere. "She will come, she will never leave you. But a new road is open now. The water will take away the old lives, fears and pain. Come true. Take a breath."
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My hair turns black with the breath of autumn, my hands become branches of withered trees. Germinate, to dig my roots into the wet earth, to draw a drop by drop from the underground river. Closer, Closer, Who am I? Forget what means breath. To forget what means loneliness. Forget myself, forget. The sky looks me straight in the eye, to see it's reflection. The sky is crying, gifting live drops of rain, drops that find shelter in my eyes. And the rain becomes a fragile bridge between the forest and the sky. Between the sky and me, the forest moves, lives inside and out. His children are born and die. Time slows down, becomes as vicious as a swamp. The time goes by, the ritual is complete. I am the Forest. The great giant and the Paris quadrifolia's berry eye. A tiny blade of grass and an ocean of greenery. Breathing the wind, whispering by the rustle of leaves, feeling the grey sky overhead, and wait. Wait for new guests.
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STREET The Color in the Life of Indian Streets Geotagging the Indian streets : Banglore • Hebbal skywalk This place is famous for the multiple turns and the flyover which cause traffic and a perfect opportunity for long exposure shots, but the place is not limited just for that explore your skills!
• Nandi hills A calm soothing hilly spot in the plateau state Bangalore, which works as a perfect escape from the urban city life, therefore, a perk of that city life offers one to capture the scenic beauty and much more.
• Sankey tank A cool, calming and beautiful park with a lake is the enchanting spell for senior citizens, birds, morning and evening walks and photography. Although the place is busy with photography nothing should
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ENDLESS Where vision meets words from photographers to poets In the journey of mystics, I see ‘a mirror of reflection’ ‘A mirror of meaning’, That I searched for... I went in seacrch of you, You who hid behind my shadow.
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THE MOODY GLOBE Top News around the globe through the colours and photograph BEACH PARTY
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BEACH PARTY WUHAN, CHINA On Aug 18, 2020, Wuhan celebrates with music festival, beach party after months of no local cases of COVID-19. People packed together in a swimming pool at the Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park for a music festival in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province It’s not only a massive pool party. Wuhan, the city where Covid-19 was first reported and the one hit hardest by the virus, is now welcoming an influx of tourists, and its economy is reviving, which local residents believed should not only be seen as a sign of the city’s return to normalcy, but also a reminder to countries grappling with the virus that strict preventive measures have a payback,” the state-run tabloid Global Times said in an editorial. According to BBC News, thousands flocked to celebrate at a music festival in the city, packing the Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park shoulder to shoulder, with not a face mask insight. The scenes, startling when compared to recent images from around the world, illustrated the city’s apparent recovery from its initial COVID-19 crisis. -National Post
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BLAST IN BERUIT, LEBANON On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of the city of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, exploded, causing at least 200 deaths, 3 reported missing, 6,500 injuries, US$10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15 billion in property damage, and leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. The explosion was felt in Turkey, Syria, Israel, Palestine and parts of Europe, and was heard in Cyprus, which was more than 250 km away. It was detected by the United States Geological Survey as a seismic event of magnitude 3.3, and is considered one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions in history. The Lebanese government declared a two week state of emergency in response to the disaster. In its aftermath, protests erupted across Lebanon against the government for their failure to prevent the disaster, joining a larger series of protests which have been taking place in the country since 2019. On 10 August 2020, Prime Minister Hassan Diab and the Lebanese cabinet resigned due to mounting political pressure exacerbated by the event. -BBC
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WILDFIRES CALIFORNIA, USA On August 15th, lightning strikes started hundreds of fires across Northern California. In the days since, over 1.2 million acres have burned. California is under a state of Emergency and all CAL FIRE resources are fully committed to battling these fires. We will provide a daily Wildfire Report until the fire seige has been brought under control. Over 17,400 firefighters remain on the frontlines of 26 major and three extended attack wildfires in California. The weather pattern over much of California fluctuates with higher temperatures and fairly clear skies. While progress was made on a number of fires, several others saw growth due to increased fire behaviour and firing operations. Lately, firefighters responded to 22 initial attack wildfires across the State. Since the beginning of the year, there have been nearly 7,900 wildfires that have burned over 3.4 million acres in California. Since August 15, when Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fire activity elevated, there have been 25 fatalities and nearly 5,400 structures destroyed. -CA Gov
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"I think the wrong things are kept private"
Nann Goldinn
Sometimes in photography, it’s easy to get tied up with gears, rules and composition so much that we forget to just enjoy being in the moment and living it. There are impressive photographs taken by photographers which show great composition, lighting and techniques which get praised for its beauty and perfection. It’s very common to get driven by the thoughts of making ‘picture-perfect’ images and share them with the world. Maybe sometimes it’s important to be in the moment which helps you connect more with the surrounding. The camera and the rules are just techniques that help to improve the photographs, the main aim is to help the viewer connect with the photograph and give them
something in return for the time they invest looking into your photograph. It’s not always about perfection. Talking about imperfection, there are photographs which follow no rules of composition but evokes a sense of connection with itself. There is a feeling involved. These imperfections in every photograph give it, it’s a unique identity and makes you praise it. It’s the same concept as Wabi-Sabi from the Japanese culture. Every photo has something more to say apart from the framing. Here are some examples of work from some photographers which mainly focus on capturing the raw emotion of the person or place.
Nan Goldin Nan Goldin’s Exhibition on “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” was a narrative slide-show which was around forty mins long with around 700 snapshot sequence and had also had around thirty different songs to set the mood and the environment. She travelled around Europe showing different versions of the same slide show.
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It’s seen that people who come to look at Nan Goldin’s work connected deeply with her narrative where the protagonists and the artist herself are captured in intimate moments of their dayto-day life. The photographs consist of moments which show sex, sexual dependency, intimacy in a relationship, sexual orientation, drag queens, Trans people, drug usage and living together. The photos do a good job of showing her friends in their own home lives, outside in the world, in their relationships with each other and themselves.
The dependency a person can get on another person which is inappropriate for them. But the sex is good and the sexual connection
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The Ballad of the Sexual Dependency (DATE?) It’s about the struggles in a relationship between intimacy and autonomy
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the different language that men and women speak, the different ways they are bought up, violence that can occur in a relationship, the struggle for autonomy within a relationship and to let the other person be autonomous. In the end, it’s not about what kind of people it talks about, but it’s about the photographer’s friends. To her, it was a sin to move a beer bottle because photography to her was all about telling truth and it had to exactly be what it was. That was the bottom line of photography, to show exactly what it was and to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty that she saw in them.
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"I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter"
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While shooting images while sitting in his car driving, the condensation blurs the image and makes it look like a photograph which has emotive light and shimmering colours. Objects became barely recognizable. The emphasis of the photographer moves from providing the viewer with a literal visual representation of a place to communicate an evocative feeling. This is what is seen in todâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work in his winter landscape shots shot through his carâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s windshield. The emphasis has moved from how a situation looks like
Todd Hido Tod was a photographer who would shoot on films and photograph landscape through the misty window of his car. Most of his images lack detail, focus and clarity. The photographers have been kept very raw while resting it.
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to what it feels like.In all these examples you can see the use of photographs changing from just being a frame, to being an art form which makes people feel what you want them to feel. Many of the narratives, particularly come from things that he have seen in others and around and that he have encountered. For him, the most magical things about photography happens when you place one picture next to another picture to create new meanings.
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COVER PAGE Photograph: Todd Hido
SPACE Guiseppe Samiani via Pexels Cotton Bro via Unsplash Article: Aishwarya
CONTENTS Photographs: Akshay Ajithan Mario Natalie YESTERDAY Photographs : Anonymous Article written : Aishwarya Shyamkumar Source : Tour eiffel paris
PHOTO PROJECT Photographs : Natalie Ina Concept Article : Natalie Ina STREET STORY Photographs: Ashish Article : Kartik/Ashish
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Photographs: Karol Wisniewski Tiago Matos Mario Akshay Ajithan Praveen
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