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The Religion
Photograph/Jessica Hilltout Jessica Hilltout discovers that in Africa, where not even the basics are taken for granted, football is precious. Jessica Hilltout This project, titled Amen, began in 2008...
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Learn from the Masters: Ashok Salian
Simple shapes and colours can make effective compositions. Photograph/Ashok Salian Ashok Salian On the occasion of Better Photography magazine’s thirteenth anniversary in 2010, 13 great masters drew...
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An Hour With a King
Madhaviah Krishnan He was in the water when I saw him first, sitting on the river-bed with his head and shoulders alone showing above the surface, ten yards from the grassy bank. He got up and waded...
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Book Review: The Archivist
The Archivist by Nony Singh A secret becomes a secret, once it is shared. When shared repeatedly, it becomes a fact. With time, a fact transforms into a story. And if the story finds itself on the...
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Rain as Supplementary Lenses
You may need to take several photos, so that the rain bokeh is not covering any important subject. Photograph/Anshul Dutt The rains are almost coming to an end, but before this monsoon completely gets...
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On a Matter of Ethics
“The sad thing is, in today’s day and age, with the kind of practices we see, the starting premise of every image, is doubt.” Indranil Mukherjee discusses ethics in the ever-changing world of modern...
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Mumbai – A City Where One Forgets to Take Photos
Photograph/Gabriel Fuchs After having made fun of my photographer friend Anita for oh-so-long, I finally went to her home country India. Even though she is from Hyderabad, we met in Mumbai where she...
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Capture Beautiful Early Morning Light
Arrive early in the morning if you want to capture the best possible light. Photograph/Chetan Kapoor This photograph took me all of two weeks to make, because I wanted all the elements to be just...
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The Human Element
Photograph/Prasad Np Prasad Np is a passionate photographer who enjoys photographing people, wildlife and travel. He is the author of the travel and photography blog called desi Traveler. You can...
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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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Sam Harris: How India Changed my Life and my Photography
Photograph/Sam Harris This article was originally published in March 2012. “I knew I had to allow myself to drift away from what I had known, if it wanted to make fresh discoveries.”—Sam Harris Let me...
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Behind the Facade
The serene landscape hides the consequences of aggressive mining that has been going on for years. Photograph/Sudhanshu Malhotra This article was originally in July 2013. Sudhanshu Malhotra is a...
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Paper Abstracts
I wanted to create wave-like shapes. I used coloured papers with sidelighting to create this image. Photograph/Nilesh Bhange Nilesh Bhange presents interesting shapes, forms and colours using an...
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At What Stage Does Art Become Pornography?
David de Souza This article was published in June 2014. Have you wondered at what point can nude photography be considered art, as opposed to pornography? Pornography in the pejorative, is associated...
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Birds Outside Your Window
The Rose-ringed Parakeet is found in flocks near human existence. The male is rose pink in colour and has a black collar. When you approach a bird do not make quick movements, or the bird might fly...
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The 10 Commandments for Accompanying a Photographer
Having spent vast amounts of time with photographers, and being a consultant who is paid to compartmentalise everything I see and do, I have catalogued the do’s and don’ts for accompanying a...
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A Walk in the Park
Photograph/Krithika Akkarajuby 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...
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Reader’s Tip: Rain as Supplementary Lenses
Once you have noticed the supplementary lens phenomenon, you must wait for an interesting frame to play itself out from within the droplets, and then trigger the shutter accordingly. Photograph/ Kumar...
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Looking Beyond What You Think You Know
All the elements came together to look like something out of a pop artwork, and this caught my attention. As an architect by profession, it is second nature to me to size up a room in my head. When I...
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Learn from the Masters: Ashok Salian
Simple shapes and colours can make effective compositions. Photograph/Ashok Salian Ashok Salian On the occasion of Better Photography magazine’s thirteenth anniversary in 2010, 13 great masters drew...
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