By Arjun Kumar and Aparajit Iyer Unity and Immunity. Here are two very interesting concepts that have been ever-integral to human life since the beginning of civilization. They are as important as they are tough they are to capture in a photograph. But alas, photography too is an art of storytelling. And so here we…
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Photojournalism- Domino Effect
By Aparajit Iyer and Arjun Kumar This month’s edition really gave us a run for our money!! When we first heard the theme “The Domino Effect” it really got us thinking. Unlike previous themes, this one was not easy to portray in images. But much like how the Domino Effect works, all we needed was…
Photojournalism- Food for Thought
By Aparajit Iyer and Arjun Kumar Food! Food! Food! It’s something that resonates with each and every one of us in some way or the other. When we first got this amazing theme to work on, the plethora of colours, the variety of tastes, and the joy of eating all of it once the shoot…
Photojournalism- Behave!
By Aparajit Iyer and Arjun Kumar BEHAVE! That’s something we’ve been hearing since we came into this world, and will continue to hear until we perish, be it from your teachers at school, or the traffic light at the corner by your house that says ‘STOP!’. Times may have changed, but the idea of behaving for…
Photojournalism- 2020 Rewind
By Arjun Kumar and Aparajit Iyer 2020 has been a very eventful year, to say the least. Call it nature’s hit on the reset button or some high order conspiracy, ever since “When It All Began – CNY2020”, each of us was greatly humbled, at our insignificance in the musings of our cosmos. “Changes” were…
Photojournalism- There Is An Impostor Among Us
By Aparajit Iyer and Arjun Kumar In this month’s edition, the team has concentrated on the theme “There is an Impostor Among Us”. As photojournalists, this theme has encouraged us to extensively brainstorm and open up the multiple layers of meaning the theme consists. Each picture in our collection has varied perspectives and understandings of…
June Edition – Controversy: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Photojournalists Note by Manya Srivastava and Tanisha Jhaveri The resonating fact that echoes through history is that there will always be two sides to the same story, two faces to a coin. While history may capture one and the media may portray another, that doesn’t invalidate either. Here at the Casual Observer, the photographers tried…
May Edition – Looking Forward
Photojournalists Note by Manya Srivastava and Tanisha Jhaveri There’s the past, that’s gone, and the future that’s yet to come. Both we have no control over. We can either choose to focus on what’s done or what is yet to come. In this edition of the Casual Observer, the photographers focused on this theme of…
April Edition – The Circle of Life
Photojournalists Note – Tanisha Jhaveri & Manya Srivastava The photographs in this edition of the Casual Observer focus on the theme of “The Circle of Life”, be it the distinction between the old and the young in our community, the phases of the moon or the ultimate end of life on this planet. Taking photos…
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