Inspiring Photographers
*bliss has been updated
Newsroom Navigator Just a terrific array of links that a newshound or just someone who is interested in life will find interesting.
Dan Gilmor says the future of newspapers is discouraging.
It's Banned Books Week, from September 24 to October 1. Read a banned book. Well, read any book.
If you have a dSLR such as Nikon D70s please be aware that third-party batteries, while seemingly inexpensive, can and will explode.
*bliss has been updated
Newsroom Navigator Just a terrific array of links that a newshound or just someone who is interested in life will find interesting.
Dan Gilmor says the future of newspapers is discouraging.
It's Banned Books Week, from September 24 to October 1. Read a banned book. Well, read any book.
If you have a dSLR such as Nikon D70s please be aware that third-party batteries, while seemingly inexpensive, can and will explode.
Tiffinbox is a labor of love. No doubt about it. However it would sure feel great to receive your support if you really find something, anything useful from time to time.
Starting today, in the upper right hand column is a tip jar. Throw in a couple of bucks. Throw in ten, or whatever suits you. Thanks for your support!
Help me spread the word about the site and send me leads to South Asian photographers, artists, designers, writers, musicians, dancers and events they are involved in. I'll be happy to post their information, be it a link or a series of images, on this site. The email address to send that info to is tiffinbox[at]pipalproductions[dot]com.
Via Amita Verma
Deepa Mehta, Anita Desai and MG Vassanji are just a few of the renowned film-makers and authors attending the 2005 South Asian Literary and Theatre Arts Festival, (SALTAF).
Water, Mehta's much anticipated final part of her trilogy of the elements will have its US premiere at the festival, almost five years after fundamentalists shut down filming in India. We will celebrate the life of Ismail Merchant, legendary producer of such classics as A Room with a View.
Anita Desai will speak of her experiences working with Merchant in the film adaptation of her book In Custody and we will also screen this award winning film. Literary panels will explore such topics as the South Asian male identity; young adult literature; and the search for a sense of belonging. Authors will read from their latest works, conduct book signings and take your questions.
So, join us for a two day extravaganza of South Asian themed arts on October 1st and 2nd from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Baird Auditorium of the National Museum of Natural History. The event is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution Asian Pacific American Program and the Network of South Asian Professionals of Washington D.C. For more information view our website.
As the event is free and open to the public, we rely on your sponsorship and donations to make it possible. To contribute toSALTAF and reserve your seating, please go to this link.
South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora in Children's Literature is a terrific resource by writer/editor/children's literature junkie Pooja Makhijani to provide educators, librarians, and parents an overview of representations of South Asia and the South Asian diaspora in children's literature and tools to select books for their classrooms and communities.
Designorati, the first blog network exclusively for creative professionals, by creative professionals, and driven by passion. If you are interested in writing for them (and for a nice cut in advertising royalties) check out this link.
Passion & Profession 9: A weekend retreat devoted to
engaging imagination and rekindling passion for photography [For more information: please contact Emily DeWan, Chicago/Midwest ASMP, 773.502.0795. Deadline was September 12, but Emily will still entertain enquiries if you are serious about going. I really wish I could go!]
How NOT to market oneself.
Cool blog of the day: Photoethnography.com
Someone with a keen sense for the obvious
@t the rate of, or A Natural History of The @ Symbol
Designorati, the first blog network exclusively for creative professionals, by creative professionals, and driven by passion. If you are interested in writing for them (and for a nice cut in advertising royalties) check out this link.
Passion & Profession 9: A weekend retreat devoted to
engaging imagination and rekindling passion for photography [For more information: please contact Emily DeWan, Chicago/Midwest ASMP, 773.502.0795. Deadline was September 12, but Emily will still entertain enquiries if you are serious about going. I really wish I could go!]
How NOT to market oneself.
Cool blog of the day: Photoethnography.com
Someone with a keen sense for the obvious
@t the rate of, or A Natural History of The @ Symbol
Media Transasia is all set to launch an edition of Maxim magazine in India.
Piyush Sharma, the associate publisher of the new magazine says that Maxim's new Indian edition will be similar to other editions, but the content “will be adapted to suit Indian sensibilities.”
I am curious to know how these “Indian sensibilities” are defined and by whom. Thoughts anyone?
Via Shahidul Alam
Ten photographers illustrate selected aspects of globalization in Asia, North America, Africa, Europe and Latin America. Their stories express a single subject that can be comprehended only in the light of its constant transformation. Together they create a whole, which is brought together in the exhibition.
TALES FROM A GLOBALIZING WORLD is a collective project that draws its strength from its individual authors. By uniting diverse photographic perspectives and styles of expression, it combines various aspects of globalization into an image of the new reality that is shaping the world we live in.
The project was photographed by Akinbode Akinbiyi, Ziyo Gafic, Philip Jones Griffiths, Tim Hetherington, Thomas Kern, Bertien van Manen, Shehzad Noorani, Cristina Nuñez, Andreas Seibert and Stephan Vanfleteren. It was conceived, curated and produced by Daniel Schwartz.
The show begins its international tour at Drik’s new gallery in Dhanmondi on September 22. 2005 and will be the inaugural show at this exciting new venue. The exhibition will later go on to Cairo and Rome.
The guest of honour for the exhibition will be Professor Muzaffer Ahmad, Trustee, Transparency International Bangladesh. Dr. Dora Rapold, the honourable Ambassador of Switzerland in Bangladesh will be present as the special guest.
The project is an initiative launched in 2002 by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
I have received word that on Sunday, September 25, 2005, from 12:30 to 4:30 pm at Tommy’s Place, Topping Student Center, on the USC Campus, in Los Angeles, friend and fellow photojournalist Shahidul Alam will be feted at a reception in his honor. If you are in LA, do stop by.
Tommy's Place is close to Exposition Blvd. & Trousdale Pkwy. Car entrance is through Gate 3 from Figueroa St.
The reception will also be an opportunity for photographers and videographers from Bangladesh to present their photographs and short films. Invited artists include Laila Nahar & Yasmin Kabir from the San Francisco Bay Area and Rashed Zaman from Los Angeles.
Shahidul will be in town to attend, as an honored guest, the National Geographic's All Roads Film Project in Hollywood.
Two of this year's winners are from Bangladesh including friends of Tiffinbox, Abir Abdullah, whose images from Old Dhaka and Shehzad Noorani for The Children of Black Dust. I am not sure if either or both will also be at hand to discuss their work but meeting Shahidul alone would be a great experience.