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A Walk in the Park
I like to take a walk in the park. Recently I took a walk in the park with Anita, my photographer friend. That was quite a different walk in the park. Photographers are not like the rest of us mortals...
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The Rebel in the Photographer
The Drottningholm Palace is the residence of the Swedish royal family since 1981. It is a UN World Heritage that origins from the 16th century (i.e. the palace, not the royal family). After a...
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The Singular Truth about Great Photography
More than a decade of grappling with questions and thoughts on the art, science, function and philosophy of photography has earned me some conclusions. And like every other conclusion, or truth, that...
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Becoming a Professional
Having studied my photographer friends for enough time, I have become brainwashed. Recently I was in Vaxholm, a village in the Stockholm Archipelago (the world’s biggest archipelago). It is a very...
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Where is Your Silence?
As a child, I have had the pleasure of playing with Padma Bhushan Harindranath Chatopadhyay almost every other day (he would drop in every morning after his walk for a cup of my grandmother’s...
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The Photos That Were Never Taken
When I look at the photos taken by my photographer friend Anita, she often comments saying that something is missing; in order to always make them perfect. In short, she did not take the photos as she...
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Being Well Hung in a Gallery
Photograph/Gabriel Fuchs Art, an acquaintance, owns a gallery that exposes photos. As most gallery owners, Art wants to make money on whatever he puts up on his walls. And how does he do that? Here...
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A Love Affair with Black and White
A few photographers still prefer black and white film photography because of the control the medium offers. Exposure, processing, printing… these are the three levels of control that are available to...
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The Virtue Of Turning 11
This month, Better Photography celebrates her 11th Anniversary and moves into her 12th year of publication. Eleven is a strangely potent number. In 35mm and medium formats, most lenses approach their...
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Photography is Feeling It
K Madhavan Pillai Here is an easy, end-of-the-year exercise for you. Buy a new diary for 2013, and jot down your very own, personal definitions for photography. Begin with ‘To me, photography is’. End...
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Artist or Photographer: Does it Matter Anyway?
Photograph/Tomoko Sawada “Personally, I have no particular preference for the term ‘artist’ or ‘photographer’.” Over the past 16 years, I have been working on self portraiture, but not shooting the...
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On Acceptable Costs and Immeasureable Value
K Madhavan Pillai Where is photography heading? In that context, where are we going? Of late, these are some of the questions that keep recurring in my mind. While conclusive answers evade me, I...
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Eternally Sixteen
“Sell your skill, not your convictions. Make your money but live for the art.”__K Madhavan Pillai We bring in this sixteenth anniversary special issue with so many mixed feelings. Joy for turning...
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