Sunday Edition: Gabrielle Strijewski, K R Sunil, and Suresh Naganathan
Sunday Edition: Gabrielle Strijewski, K R Sunil, and Suresh Naganathan
PHOTOSNACK #328
Every Sunday, I contact photographers previously featured on PHOTOSNACK and ask them to send me their spontaneous thoughts, observations, reflections, or advice.
Today, I am sharing the messages I received from Gabrielle Strijewski, K R Sunil, and Suresh Naganathan.
Gabrielle Strijewski
How long is now? Isn’t that what the picture tells us?
Pictures tell of moments that we would like to extend to get closer to what happened.
And to imagine what might still happen.
Gabrielle Strijewski was featured in PHOTOSNACK #250.
K R Sunil
What we often regard as editorial article topics or as worldly phenomena that are not attached to our surroundings often come knocking at the door – sooner or later.
This photograph is one such story and one of innumerable many.
In Kerala, my native, the coastal strip is now dotted by many such homes, which were once thriving with life. However, encroachment by sea waves has been on the rise in the last couple of decades, which can only be attributed to climate change that is happening all over the world. The sea connects the world, and I believe any effect on it can ripple throughout the world, like this home, which had to be deserted due to the merciless tides.
The coastal community lives in total reverence to the sea, yet they are the first ones affected in this hour of crisis. The homes have to be left behind in such a hurry that there may still be relics of the life that were continuously displaced within the walls by the periodic tides! Kitchen utensils, kids’ toys, flooded appliances that have somehow remained clinging to the premises…
This photograph is a stark reminder of the fragile balance between humanity and nature. It's a haunting testament to the unseen casualties of climate change, a silent crisis unfolding in plain sight.
K R Sunil was featured in PHOTOSNACK #268.
Suresh Naganathan
Street photography, to me, is both the easiest and the hardest genre of photography. Easiest because all you have to do is wear your shoes, take the camera and get out of your front door. The world is your canvas.
What makes it the hardest is that you have absolutely no control of your environment: neither the light, nor the people. If you miss a moment, there are no redos.
That's what makes it so addictive to me :-): the quest to witness, amidst the mundane world, a fleeting moment of magic where the light, the people, the gestures align.
99.99% of the time, this quest will yield very little but if you persevere, every once in a while, the gods of photography will reward you with a moment of pure grace. And that, to me, is an unparalleled feeling.
So go out and take pictures; you may come back with magic :-)
Suresh Naganathan was featured in PHOTOSNACK #280.
Sunday Editions connect you with photographers whose work you previously explored through PHOTOSNACK.
I want to reveal some authentic parts of the people behind the cameras.
I don't ask them any specific questions. I ask them to share whatever comes to mind when they think about YOU, the newsletter readers.
It makes their responses genuine and personal.
I hope you enjoyed today's Sunday Edition.
Until next time,
Tomasz