Tag: Photographs

  • In conversation with Vijay Sarathy, Visual Artist and Photographer

    In conversation with Vijay Sarathy, Visual Artist and Photographer

    Featured Images: Vijay Sarathy Vijay Sarathy is a self-taught visual artist and photographer from Chennai, India. His work involves transforming bodies of nature to represent inner states. Your photographs depict landscapes and objects that feel tantalizingly familiar, and yet they manage to propel the viewer into a parallel universe that…

  • A Portrait of Respectability

    A Portrait of Respectability

    Many years ago, my grandmother took her two children off to a photographic studio to have their portraits taken. In the fragile photograph that is now more than 80 years old, my father poses on an oversized chair, slightly leaning into his older sister who is standing next to him.…

  • The Joy of Being Human

    The Joy of Being Human

    Joy has been popping up in my feeds a lot lately. One of the more recent posts was an image of a jazz musician, Jon Batiste, playing freedom songs and hymns on a joyfully decorated upright piano at a protest march in New York. He has been doing that at…