Summer 2012: 20 photographs from India exposed @ Cafe Allokoto, Komotini.

 

 

 

In a previous post we saw a video with 126 images from India. These are the 20 images that has been selected and they are being exposed this summer @ Cafe Allokoto, Komotini. The black & white images are shot with film black & white, the color images are digital (shot with Nikon D700).

20-March-2012: kids - Jodhpur (poster my exposition of photography from India), India.

This photograph has been selected as a poster for my exposion of photography that will take place in a local cafe in Komotini, Greece on 21 of June 2012. The poster of the exposition is bellow and the image has been cropped a little bit to the right. The design of the poster is from graphic designer Vaso (link spagheti design). Some encyclopedic information about Jodhpur (this city is called also as "the blue city"): The blue color in the past was used only by Brahmani high cast (blue house was a house of a higher cast). Later this color was used by lower casts because people believed that this color enhance the cooling of the house and expels the mosquitoes ;-). More cities in the region of Rajastan in India have this blue color, ie. Bundi.

•  Jodhpur (article at en.wikipedia).

This is the full set of images where this image has been selected:

21-June-2012: Exposition of photography - India, Cafe Allokoto, Komotini, Greece.

This is a promotion video of my exposition of photography with photographs from India that will take place on 21 of June 2012 at Cafe Allokoto in Komotini. In the video footage we see fast 126 images from which 20 has been selected for the exposition. The music in the video is from MumBai Mafia and the sample is "Bollywood Snuff Movie" (which is distributed under creative commons 3.0 share-alike).

28-Jul-2011: Women-rain, Chitwan jungle, Nepal.

May-be an image like that is better to be shot in colour. Generally speaking Asia is full of colour and it is a question if a photographer should choose colour or black and white. Recently in a speech of the Turkish photographer  Ara Gulerm, mentioned that issue. Asia is full of colour so the photographer has no other choice rather to choose colour. This image is from the  Chitwan jungle in Nepal and it has been selected from the following set of images:

 Image with rain from Asia posted photographer Steve McCurry in his blog:

• Right as Rain.

27-Feb-2012: Hindu monk, Mumbai - India.

This image has been selected from the following set of images:

Photographer Paolo Pellegri in the project "Time in Turkey" from the Turkish newspaper Zaman.

In the project "Time in Turkey" photographers has been joined in order to shot non-touristic images from Turkey.

• Time in Turkey: Turkey from a Global Perspective.

12-Feb-2012: Snowy landscape - Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey.

These images has been selected from the following set of image. In the beginning I was think to publish only the first image (more "classic style" image), but the composition of the second image seems also interesting. I like the composition of the palm tree between the minarets and the geometry with the column and the cables within the composition. This kind of "black & white" landscape seems better in black and white film rather shot in colour-digital form.

8-Jul-2011: Woman in the ship, travelling from Lavrio to Kavala, Aegean sea, Greece.

In this photograph it interesting the composition of the vertical lines in the bag and the scandals and the eccentric watch. This image has been selected from the following set of images:

26-Sep-2010: 18th-19th century bridge, Kompsatos river, Rhodope,Thrace, Greece.

This panoramic image is made by hugin stitching software using the following images:

This image is also distributed under free license from the commons of wikipedia. The river Kompsatos is near-by the village of Iasmos. Also this image, which is distributed under a free license is also mine. It is the same scene 3 days earlier (the river is not muddy).

19-Sep-2010: Marmaritsa beach - Active fault between Maronia and Makri, Rhodope, Thrace, Greece.

This is a stitched panorama by software hugin. Some post processing has been made over the stitched panorama (curved horizon correction) etc. This image is almost 160 degrees panoramic. These are the images that this stitched panorama is made of.

27-Feb-2012: Hindu monk, Mumbai - India.

This photograph has been selected from the following set of images:

René Burri - on photography - The Economist.

René Burri was born 1933 at Zurich, Switzerland and is member of Magnum agency.

• René Burri (article at English wikipedia).

23-Aug-2011: Hinduc temple - Lingam, Varanasi, India.

Hindu temple with a Lingam in Varanasi during the flooding of Ganga river (due to monsoons). Lingam is phallic representation of God Shiva.

22-26 August 2011 - 28 February till 2 March 2012 - Part 2: Varanasi (India).

November 2011: Wagon - horse, Komotini, Rhodope, Greece.

This image has been selected from the following set of photographs:

26-27 February 2012 - Part 1: Istanbul - Mumbai (India).

26-Aug-2011: Varanasi, India.

19-Dec-2011: Portrait of Rob (photographer and cyclist), Greece.

 

Rob is a British cyclist and photographer. His project is to cycle around the world (the site of the project is http://www.thelifecycle.net/). From these two images the best is probably the best (with the shadows of a plant in the background). The total set of the image shot is include in the following contact sheet:

16-Dec-1996: (engraving) Portrait in a train, while travelling Oradea -> Cluj, Romania.

This engraving is based in my photograph which you can see beneath (posted here in this blog). It is a work of a friend who is an artist (Ioanna Zikidou).

Dec-1994: Street photo of people in "Piata Romana" square, Bucharest, Romania.

Searching my old negatives I found this image shot December 1994 in Bucharest Romania. Quite interesting part is the gaze of the man in the right, who is the only one who saw me taking this picture. The film is 100 ASA Azomures (Romanian company producing photographic films) but the grain is due to the film quality and film developing (the chemical used was also by Azomures).