Authors: Shahidul Alam

‘What of the photograph made out of nothing?  What about painting with light?  Is it photography?  Surely if we can paint with light we can paint with dreams, create the morning mist or the afternoon glow.  Will it be a fake?  Hardly.  Whatever else may be false in this tenuous existence of ours, imagination is…

He had been watching for a while as I photographed the kids playing leapfrog. It was for an assignment for Oxfam and I had gone early in the morning, as much to get the dew and the morning light as to find the kids at play before their hard day as rag pickers kicked. He…