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Farmers in Nepal, by Lothar Seifert

L&C Team — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:48:56 +0000

They are farmers and to plow a small field with their buffalo. These people are poor because they only have little farmland. This couple lives in a small hut in the Himalayas in Nepal.

Technical Info: Nikon D5100 with Sigma 17-70mm | Exposure 1/1000sec @ f/4.5 | ISO 400 | Focal length 70mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | May 01
Award Score: 62 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 15, Style 12, Skill 11)

Title of the photograph: Farmers in Nepal
Photo of the Day Award Category: Documentary Photography
Photograph Location: Kathmandu Valley | Nepal

Photographer: Lothar Seifert (Naundorf, Saxony, Germany) Registered Photographer
Lothar Seifert was born 1955 in Germany. He lives in a small village in Upper Lusatia surrounded by wonderful nature. He is currently working as a design engineer, specialist for occupational safety and environmental officer. Over time, photography has become an important part-time of his employment. Lothar Seifert’s journeys in Asia, his friendly relations with the people of various religions in Nepal, Kashmir, Ladakh and India, has learned him to love the road and portrait photography. The motivating impulses from these Asian countries are limitless. Lothar’s pictures from Asia shows also solidarity with the poor people on earth. For three years he organized support for the schooling of children from poor families in Nepal and sends winter clothing for children in the cold regions of the Himalayas. By these experiences and adventures Lothar gets incidentally wonderful motifs for photography.

The invitation of the Secretary of State for Culture and Tourism of Jammu and Kashmir brought Lothar in 2009 for the second time on a photo safari in the beautiful countries Kashmir and Ladakh. The most important photo for Lothar is not by himself, but by the photographers by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. This picture shows His Holiness together with Lothar Seifert and a friend. In addition, Lothar likes the faces of little insects and makes many macro shots of the animals and plants. With his photographs and conservation projects he wants to help to understand the nature and to save the environment.

Website: http://www.l-seifert.de/
Portfolio: http://www.asien.l-seifert.de/
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Fishing in the Forest, by Rahat Azim Chowdhury

L&C Team — Tue, 21 May 2013 02:44:02 +0000

The Rema-Kalenga wildlife sanctuary is a part of the trap hill reserved forest, the largest remnant of upland natural forest in the country. Its unknown to mass people because of remote access area. Their lifestyle is different and difficult than our city life. Children go to charity school and rest of the time help their family for livelihood. They are fishing, harvesting ,collecting fruits, and doing other supportive works for their family. Here is a little demonstration of them, fishing in the forest.

Technical Info: Canon EOS-550D with with EF 75-300mm | Exposure 1/800sec @ f/5 | ISO 200 | Focal length 210mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | May 21
Award Score: 62 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 15, Style 12, Skill 11)

Title of the photograph: Fishing in the Forest
Photo of the Day Award Category: Documentary Photography
Photograph Location: Rema Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, Habiganj, Sylhet | Bangladesh

Photographer: Rahat Azim Chowdhury (Dhaka,Bangladesh) Registered Photographer
Rahat Azim Chowdhury was born in 4th May 1984 and from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is a Computer Engineer by profession. From his childhood he loved to take pictures of nature and people around him, but it was not his infatuation. Photography becomes his passion when his childhood friend Nazmul Shanji (Registered photographer of Light and composition ) inspired him around a year ago. He believes self-learning is the best learning so that he started learning photography from e-books, online articles, video tutorials and observing photo works . Obviously he learned from his friend Nazmul Shanji a lot of stuffs .His friend helped him a lot to quick start with his 1st DSLR camera. After five months he completed his first photographic course “Advance course in Basic Photography” from PRISM Photography Institute. Recently he has intended to do an “Advanced diploma course in professional photography.” He is fond of taking photos of different aspects of human lifestyle and nature. Nature, Lifestyle, Wildlife, Architectural, Street Photography, Candid, and Portraiture are his specialty. Rahat doesn’t like to do wedding and fashion photography as a machine of easy earning money. Creating own signature in photos is Rahat’s main awareness, where he always try to put his own styles, knowledge and views. He said “I’m a ghost of the navigator, I want to explore over the world various countries lifestyle. Specially third world countries religious views, architectural structure development and social pattern of thought are subject to me. My dream is to be a photo creator who can’t run after money enormously”

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Education for All, by Nazmul Shanji

L&C Team — Mon, 06 May 2013 11:18:30 +0000

I was on my way to a deep forest for wild life photography and found this sweet girl trying to study beside her house with other same aged girl and instantly the line came to my mind was “Give me an educated mother, I’ll give you and educated nation”.

Technical Info: Canon 7D with 70-300mm f4 L | Exposure 1/400sec @ f/5.6 | ISO 400 | Focal Length 124mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | May 06
Award Score: 65 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 16, Style 13, Skill 12)

Title of the photograph: Education for All
Photo of the Day Award Category: Documentary Photography
Photograph Location: Rema Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, Habiganj, Sylhet | Bangladesh

Photographer: Nazmul Shanji (Dhaka, Bangladesh) Registered Photographer
Nazmul Shanji was born in January 1986 and from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is an Electrical Power Engineer and completed his BSc in EEE from Bangladesh and MSc from London. He was in band music from his early days until 2008 then suddenly left professional music for his better study life. From his childhood he loves to take pictures of nature and people around him, but honestly it was not his infatuation. Photography becomes his passion when he inspired a lot by his wife around a year ago. He believes self-learning is the best learning so that he started learning photography by the help of e-books, online articles, video tutorials and observing seniors’ works. His friends and cousins helped him a lot for a quick start with his 1st DSLR camera. After 5 months he completed his 1st photographic course in Photojournalism. Recently he has done an advance course in basic photography and now started a one diploma course in professional photography. He feels affection for taking photos of different aspects of human life and nature. Nature, wild life, architectural, street photography and candid portraiture are his specialty. Shanji also loves to do wedding photography barely from an artistic vision just not only for earning money. Creating own signature in photos is Nazmul Shanji’s main awareness where he always try to put his own styles, knowledge and views. “I love to travel a lot and try to capture the moments of life. My dream is to be a photo creator by which I can show my observation to others, the scrutiny of an unseen diary” said by him.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/unsocial/
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Gallery: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/gallery/1341536/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nazmul.shanji

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Story of Forest Kids, by Rahat Azim Chowdhury

L&C Team — Sun, 05 May 2013 03:22:43 +0000

I got few local kids in frame from one of the largest wildlife sanctuary in Bangladesh – Rema Kalenga Forest. They lived there, deprived of proper education and facilities. The forest isn’t scared them at all. They are playing, leading their life, and watching curiously at outsiders. I’m an outsider there; they look at me with question in their mind. I tried to frame their story of life with my camera, the story of forest kids.

Technical Info: Canon EOS-550D with with EF 75-300mm | Exposure 1/2500sec @ f/5.6 | ISO 800 | Focal length 255mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | May 05
Award Score: 65 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 16, Style 12.5, Skill 12.5)

Title of the photograph: Story of Forest Kids
Photo of the Day Award Category: Documentary Photography
Photograph Location: Rema Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, Habiganj, Sylhet | Bangladesh

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Unshackle Oppression, by Nazmul Shanji

L&C Team — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:52:36 +0000

It was a nice, sunny day and the very best cultural day for Bengali people because it was Pohela Boishakh, the 1st day of the 1420th Bangla Year. I was near TSC with my wife and cousins and suddenly I saw a painting on that wall with a slogan – “The shackles of oppression will be broken.” This reflects the current condition of the conscious people of Bangladesh. We want to live in peace all together in our lovely country and we can sacrifice our lives for that.

Technical Info: Canon 7D with 17-40mm L | Exposure 1/1000sec @ f/6.3 | ISO 200 | Focal Length 32mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | April 21
Award Score: 65 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 16, Style 12.5, Skill 12.5)

Title of the photograph: Unshackle Oppression
Photo of the Day Award Category: Documentary Photography
Photograph Location: Near TSC, University of Dhaka | Bangladesh

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Inception, by Jyoti Omi Chowdhury

L&C Team — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:11:42 +0000

An unexpected explosion as a manual laborer tries to dump hot tar. The sudden burst of light, fire and heat created a collage that can only be labeled as a mini big bang…the inception of the universe. We replicate our existence in ways we rarely fathom.

Technical Info: Sony Nex 5N | Exposure 1/60 @ f/4 | Focal Length 18mm | ISO 200
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | April 18
Award Score: 65 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 16, Style 12, Skill 13)

Title of the photograph: Inception
Photo of the Day Award Category: Documentary Photography
Photograph Location: Chittagong | Bangladesh

Photographer: Jyoti Omi Chowdhury (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) Registered Photographer
Jyoti Omi Chowdhury was born in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, which in his opinion is infamous for torrential rain and back alley cricket. His formative years were spent daydreaming about art, politics and sports under the cusp of a military dictatorship. He moved to the wilderness of the American prairies and western Canada for his university education, and eventually wound his way to Harvard. In between all this tiptoeing, rapidly developing wanderlust, he began to research and write on genocide, gender equity, war theory, and liberalism. During his PhD research and fieldwork, he found an outlet in photography.

Omi’s photography exhibits the equipoise between space and human identity. Most of his photographs were taken at various warzones and dictatorships, from Somalia to Burma. Instead of replicating and imitating the dire conditions that are part and parcel of human existence within these warzones, Chowdhury’s photography captures the levity, beauty, and randomness of people’s lives in these places. It is ultimately an homage to undying human spirit that refuses to wither even in the most desperate of circumstances. He has also ventured into the world of fashion photography and has photographed ballerinas, yogis and fashion models for various spreads and sub-shoots. Omi has had three solo shows in Berlin, Boston and Ann Arbor, respectively. His work has been featured in Light and Composition Magazine, LAT, Vogue Italia and in galleries in Chicago, Indianapolis, Prague, Munich and Abu Dhabi. Omi will also be doing an installment for the Smithsonian in Dec 2013.

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A Morning with Solidity, by Nazmul Shanji

L&C Team — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:28:34 +0000

On the way to Ratargul forest, Sylhet we are waiting for a boat to pass the river and found this stunning moment. This photo is showing the reality of life where some fisher men were working hard in the morning. I took this photo to show the world when many people are getting ready for their office or asleep these people are fighting with nature for foods not only for them also for their family.

Technical Info: Canon EOS 7D with ES- 70-300 f4 L IS | Exposure 1/320sec @ f/6.3 | ISO 100 | Focal Length 70mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | March 25
Award Score: 65 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 16, Style 12.5, Skill 12.5)

Title of the photograph: A Morning with Solidity
Photo of the Day Award Category: Documentary Photography
Photograph Location: Near Ratargul forest, Sylhet | Bangladesh

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Raise Your Voice, by Ashik Masud

L&C Team — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:14:57 +0000

Rape is the biggest problem now a days. It’s a high time to raise your voice against rape and all kind of women harassment. We want to live safely. We don’t want to see any rape, garments fire genocides, murder. With some effort we can shift away from a rape culture. And it can help not just women, not just the most socially vulnerable, but the entire social climate.

Technical Info: Nikon D90 | Exposure 1/1250s @ f/4 | ISO 200 | Focal Length 60 mm
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | March 01
Award Score: 60 (Value 10, Clarity 11, Composition 15, Style 12, Skill 12)

Title of the photograph: Raise Your Voice
Photo of the Day Award Category: Documentary Photography
Photograph Location: In front of National Parliament House of Bangladesh | Dhaka

Photographer: Ashik Masud (Dhaka, Bangladesh) Registered Photographer
Ashik Masud is a passionate shutter bug, lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh, specializing in people with a style consisting of colorful and energetic imagery. Ashik mostly loves documentary photography, and loves to represent his country through his viewfinder. In professional life, he is an IT Professional. He likes to photograph people in their interaction with the world surrounding them and think photography is a wonderful medium to connect with people with respect and discover their cultures. He is a self-taught, and believes the best way to learn is to just do it.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashikmasud/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashikmasud
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And the War Goes On, by Shahnaz Parvin

L&C Team — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 03:04:24 +0000

The photograph is from Bangladesh, the country where International Mother Language Day originates from. If you trace back its history, you’ll know the blood that Bangladeshis paid for earning the right to talk in their mother language. 61 years have passed since Bangladesh’s language movement of 1952, but still the war criminals of 1971, the Liberation War of the country are not brought into justice. Now, in 2013, a spontaneous and peaceful mass movement has spread all over the country asking for capital punishment of the war criminals. Here in the photograph, a young freedom fighter of the new generation is captured lighting candles in the memory of the martyrs of the language movement, as if symbolizing the on going war for justice, handed down from one generation to another.

Technical Info: Canon Eos Kiss X4 | Exposure f/2.5 @ 1/60sec | Focal length 30mm | ISO 800
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | February 21
Award Score: 68 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 18, Style 12.5, Skill 13.5)

Title of the photograph: And the War Goes On
Photo of the Day Award Category: Documentary Photography
Photograph Location: Dhaka | Bangladesh

Photographer: Shahnaz Parvin (Dhaka, Bangladesh) Registered Photographer
Shahnaz Parvin is a passionate Bangalee, who resides in Bangladesh. Though she is doing a job as system admin in a PSI company, her real passion lays in photography and learning it. Shahnaz mostly loves documentary photography, and loves to represent her country Bangladesh through her lens. Her images have been used on a number of renowned magazines in various countries.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/_spark/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001548214861
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/spark_bd

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The Sign of Change, by Shahnaz Parvin

L&C Team — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 03:36:31 +0000

This picture narrates the changing fate of Bangladesh. The nation is going through a spontaneous mass protest demanding capital punishment for the war criminals of the country. Here people of all age, as well as the children of the freedom fighters are signing in demand of the capital punishment for the recognized war criminal Abdul Quader Molla. He has been found guilty of large-scale massacres in the Mirpur area of Dhaka during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. Five out of six charges against him are proven, but still he did not get the highest punishment according to the nation’s law. So the protest continues, transforming into a revolution throughout the nation. Now the nation awaits justice, and also to rewrite its deserving fate through the hands of its new generation.

Technical Info: Canon Eos Kiss X4 | Exposure f/3.5 @ 1/80sec | Focal length 30mm | ISO 6400
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | February 09
Award Score: 66 (Value 12, Clarity 12, Composition 16.5, Style 12, Skill 13.5)

Title of the photograph: The Sign of Change
Photo of the Day Award Category: Documentary Photography
Photograph Location: Shahbagh, Dhaka | Bangladesh

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