Jannatul Mawa: “Close Distance” – Powerful Portraits of Bangladesh Maids and Their Women Employers
Bangladesh – Historically, domestic servants worked (only) for food and lodging in better-off homes of predominantly rural eastern Bengal. The introduction of wage labour during the British colonial period gradually led to the introduction of wages for domestic service, but even now, after twice-achieved national independence (1947, 1971), no minimum wage has been fixed by […]
“Hijacking Reality” – Paris Workshop with Boris Eldagsen
Paris – Emaho Magazine in collaboration with Le Petite Espace announces our first workshop in Paris with German photographer Boris Eldagsen. HIJACKING REALITY What does an artist need to produce strong Staged Photography? Expensive camera equipment? Professional light? Assistants? Actors? Set designers? Make-up? No! Just a good eye, intuition and a personal understanding of one‘s subject […]
Emaho Foundation’s Emerging Asian Photography Grant Winner Announced
India – We are delighted to announce that Tsunomu Yamagata has won the Emaho Foundation‘s Emerging Asian Photography Grant 2015 for ‘Ten Disciples’, a project on Japanese valley, filled with radio-active rocks and high ground temperature, curing cancer patients. With his high-contrast black and white images, Yamagata explores the Japanese view of life and death […]
Petra Stavast: ‘Ramya’ – Beautifully Archiving Your Landlady for 14 years
Netherlands – Ramya, long-term personal project converted into a photobook by Dutch photographer Petra Stavast, made over a period of 14 years, is simple story of a tenant documenting her landlady Ramya when she first moved into her house in 2001. Published and designed by Hans Gremmen of f-w photography, Stavast successfully creates a very personal and […]
Marta Berens: “Dream Chapter” – Magical Illusion of a Photographer’s Reality
Poland – Dream chapter is a part of my “Fairytale” story. “It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born. (…) Some call me the Elder Granny, others – the Dryad, but my real name is Memory. It is I who sits on a tree that keeps on growing, and […]
Oliver Cablat: “Story of the teleported DUCK” – Theory of Evolution
France – In 1930, duck farmer Martin Maurer had a duck-shaped building constructed to house his retail poultry shop in Flanders, a small town on Long Island, New York. In 1972, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour wrote Learning from Las Vegas, a book in which they examined the concepts of vernacular, functional […]
Karin Bareman: The Emperor’s New Clothes
USA – As is so often the case, it is the title that draws me in. The Furtastic Adventures of the Cabbit and the Folf. The words are playful, whimsical and poetic at the same time. A Cabbit is a hybrid between a cat and a rabbit. A Folf is a creature halfway between a […]
China Masterclass with Joan Villaplana: Beauty, Ugliness and the Sublime in Contemporary Photography
After the great success of our workshops in India, Manila, and Tokyo, we continue our workshop program of IED-Madrid and EMAHO Magazine with Joan Villaplana, at the Central Studios in Shanghai, on Sept 7, and at the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China, on Sept. 21. CONCEPT Beauty has been marginalized in the Western Arts for decades. In contemporary photography, Ugliness and the Romantic […]
Rafael Arocha: “Medianoche” – Confessions of Night Seduction
Spain – Medianoche refers to a border that confronts us with certain limits. A temporary space in which we can explore the relationship between instinct and desire, the behaviours that they give rise to and the manifestation of our fantasies of seduction. In this work the night leads us to an exercise that gives us the […]
Lina Hashim: “Unlawful Meetings” – Photographing Young Muslim Couples Sexual Encounter
Denmark – Like any of the major religions, Islam seeks to regulate sexual relationships between members of their society through moral codes. As laid down in the Quran, any form of sexual behavior – intercourse, oral sex or any action that encourages sexual activity – is strictly forbidden before or outside of marriage. Of course, […]
Ana Galan: V I V ( R ) E L A V I E – Paying Homage to Old Age Love
Spain – This project is about love in all its forms. I have always thought that arriving to a certain age, we become invisible, towards ourselves and towards the rest of the people. Viv(r)e la vie! pays homage to those who decide not to become invisible, to those who continue to live “in the moment”. With […]
Poulomi Basu: “A Ritual of Exile” – Exposing Women Condition in Nepal
Nepal – “It’s dark, and there is no light. I feel so scared someone might come.” Radha is only 16 but once a month she is exiled in a makeshift hut deep in the forests of mid western Nepal. Her only crime is that she is menstruating. Radha is an untouchable, an ‘impure’ polluting agent, […]