by Kenan Malik
Continuing my series of posts on photographs composed largely of single colours, in an almost monochromatic fashion, this time green. (Previous posts were on blue and yellow.) For more, check out my photography website, Light Infusion. . Bridge over the Limehouse Cut . Poised to open . Poised to fly . Paradise . Splash . Fan . Seed gone . Mist over Malham . Reflection in Giverney . The strangeness of Orford Ness . Feeling the light
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by Kenan Malik
Continuing my series of posts on photographs composed largely of single colours, in an almost monochromatic fashion, this time yellow. (The previous post was on blue.) For more, check out my photography website, Light Infusion. . Sydney Opera House at sunset . Foggy sunset over the Cambrian hills . Sun and storm over London . Parliament building, Budapest, reflected . London South Bank . Buddha, Dambulla, Sri Lanka . Eden Project, Cornwall . Flower in the wet . Lip (in […]
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by Kenan Malik
My favourite use of colour in photography is almost as monochrome, minimising the palette of colours being used. So, I thought I might publish a series of posts on photographs using largely single colours, beginning with blue. And for more, check out my photography website, Light Infusion. . Looking South from Achmore (in Lewis) . Storm over Scapa Flow . Storm over the Brittany Coast . Like a Turner – Mt Field in the Canadian Rockies . Crane and Shard . […]
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by Kenan Malik
Yes, it snowed in London today, albeit briefly. So, some snow photos (not all from today, but all from south-east London). Snow and ice with a dash of colour (apart from the final black and white at night image). And if you are interested, there are more photos on my photography site, Light Infusion.
Categories: Photos • Tags: photography, snow
by Kenan Malik
I have, over the past few weeks, been reorganising Light Infusion, my photographic website. Apart from a bit of tidying up, it’s just about completed. So, it’s open to browse – and buy prints, if you wish. (And if anyone spots any errors, do let me know.) Here is a small sample of photographs from each of the sections on the site. . Landscape . Cathedral Mountain, in Yoho National Park in the Canadian Rockies, bursting through the early morning […]
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by Kenan Malik
Some people view photography as a realist medium, a means of faithfully recording the world as it is. All photography, however, even the most realist forms such as photojournalism, necessarily distorts, remakes, is partial, frames the image from a certain perspective, tells a particular story. In my photography, I see ‘fidelity’, in so far as it has any meaning, as capturing a particular mood or sense or idea evoked by a place or a moment or a phenomenon, rather than […]
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by Kenan Malik
I have neglected Light Infusion, my photographic site, in recent years. So I am in the process of getting it back into order; it will probably take next few weeks. In beginning to sort it out, I’ve been going back over my archive of photos. And I thought it might be entertaining (at least to me) to pick out my favourites from the past ten years. So, this is one photo per year over the past decade. The choice is […]
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by Kenan Malik
These are photos from Sadarghat, the river port of Dhaka, which in many ways is a microcosm of the city itself – in-your-face, bursting with life, tumultuous and gritty, with people and goods and boats all on the move. There are huge multi-storeyed ferries, carrying both passengers and cargo, bound for destinations all over the country. The poorest passengers simply lay a mat on the lower deck; the upper decks have individual cabins for those who can afford it. In […]
Categories: International, Photos • Tags: bangladesh, dhaka, photography, sadarghat
by Kenan Malik
Faidabad, in the northern suburb of Uttara, is among the poorest areas in Dhaka. The narrow dirt streets and the shacks that line the main arterial road are witness to that. It is far from any tourist spot – it can take a couple of hours of driving through Dhaka’s chaotic traffic and legendary jams to reach Faidabad from the centre of the city. Faidabad is also home to a remarkable mosque, modernist, austere and strikingly beautiful. Designed by Marina […]
Categories: Atheism & Religion, Culture & Books, Photos • Tags: bait ur rouf mosque, bangladesh, bengal, dhaka, islam, islamic architecture, marina tabassum, modernism, mosques, photography
by Kenan Malik
From the outside, the Italian Chapel on Orkney would barely catch your eye. Yet, it is a remarkable building, with a remarkable history. A house of God that is also is a monument to the human spirit. In January 1942, more than a thousand Italian prisoners of war, captured mainly in North Africa, were brought to Orkney. They were needed to construct the Churchill Barriers – four causeways that today act as links between a number of the southern Orkney islands […]
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by Kenan Malik
‘A wart-covered picture of America by a joyless man’, wrote the photographer and critic Minor White. ‘A sad poem by a very sick person’, snorted Popular Photography. The object of their scorn was The Americans, a collection of images of American life by the photographer Robert Frank, who died last week, aged 94. It is difficult today to recognize how revolutionary was Frank’s work when it was first published 60 years ago. His style, his mode of observation, his subject matter […]
Categories: Culture & Books, Photos • Tags: photography, robert frank, usa
by Kenan Malik
The Western Isles and the Northern Isles, at the very edges of Britain, are rarely blessed with blue skies and bright sun. They are swaddled in cloud and wind and rain. And, yet, there is here a quality of light that you rarely see elsewhere in Britain. The cloudscape is an extension of the landscape, and as the light suffuses through the cloud, it acquires a painterly, almost ethereal, quality. It may be why there are so many artists on […]
Categories: Britain, Photos • Tags: orkney, photography
by Kenan Malik
Against the background of the debate about squalor and brutality of the USA’s immigrant detention centres – and whether they constitute ‘concentration camps’, a debate I might engage in sometime – it is worth remembering that America has a long history of mass detention camps. Among the most notorious were the internment camps for Japanese-Americans during the Second World War. ‘The Japanese race’, observed General John L DeWitt, head of the US Army’s Western Defense Command, and a key figure […]
Categories: International, Photos, Race & Immigration • Tags: concentration camps, dorothea lange, internment camps, japanese internment, linda gordon, mass detention, photography, racism, usa
by Kenan Malik
While in Australia, I spent a couple of days on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. It’s a beautiful coastline, with some spectacular geological features. The first part up to Apollo Bay hugs the coastline and makes for an exhilarating drive. But beyond Apollo Bay, you can barely see the ocean from the Great Ocean Road. This is where many of the geological features are – The Twelve Apostles, Loch Ard Gorge, London Bridge, etc – and you nip off […]
Categories: Photos • Tags: australia, great ocean drive, photography, scotland
by Kenan Malik
I’m in Australia at the moment, giving a series of talks in Brisbane, Melbourne and Bendigo. The events have been terrific, with outstanding audiences and discussions. My Observer column this week (published on Sunday, and on Pandaemonium next week) will reflect some of the discussion. So, this week these is no usual Friday/Saturday post. Instead, a couple of photos taken on a flight between Brisbane and Melbourne at sunset. Back to normal (I hope) next week.
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