Here’s how this market in Delhi’s Chandni Chowk has adapted to a changing world

Here’s how this market in Delhi’s Chandni Chowk has adapted to a changing world

While the photography landscape changing from analogue to digital, camera stores are having to adjust to a new reality. While many stores in Delhi display old manual analogue cameras, most of their work deals with repairing and selling digital ones. Photography no longer remains the art it once was, Rajkumar Kapoor, owner of Madanjee & Co, … Read more

Step up: the artist fixated on feet – in pictures

Step up: the artist fixated on feet – in pictures

Russian photographer Lisa Litovka can’t decide why her sculptures are foot-focused. “Is it because I like feet or don’t like them? Shoes are great, though, and crazy shoes are cool.” This belief is clear from her images of footwear made from pancakes, mushrooms, slinky’s, broken glass … “Spiky, uncomfortable shoes happen,” she says. “I’m so … Read more

Mass Isolation Australia – capturing the nation amid the Covid pandemic

Mass Isolation Australia – capturing the nation amid the Covid pandemic

Mass Isolation Australia was created during lockdown in March 2020 to establish a visual record of the pandemic. It quickly became a way to see the Covid crisis unfold through Australian eyes, as well as a source of connection and community in a time of social distance. With the Ballarat lockdown to end at 11.59pm … Read more

Glenn Murcutt named the 2021 Praemium Imperiale laureate for architecture

Glenn Murcutt named the 2021 Praemium Imperiale laureate for architecture

The acclaimed architect has become the first Australian to win the annual award. The Praemium Imperiale recognises laureates in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, music and theatre/film. Here Guardian Australia takes a look back at Glenn Murcutt’s extensive work Source link

Met Gala 2021: stars explore ‘American independence’ theme – in pictures

Met Gala 2021: stars explore ‘American independence’ theme – in pictures

Co-chair Billie Eilish (the youngest in the event’s history) was one of many stars to channel Grace Kelly at the pandemic-delayed Met Gala on Monday night. She was joined by a guest list of fashion designers, models, celebrities and – to some controversy – TikTok stars, on the steps at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. … Read more

Sean Lock – a life in pictures

Sean Lock – a life in pictures

A retrospective of the life and career of the comedian, who has died from cancer at the age of 58 Main image: Sean Lock performs on the first night of a series of concerts and events in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall in London, March 2006. Photograph: Jo Hale/Getty Images … Read more

CPWD prohibits photography, video recording at Central Vista construction site

CPWD prohibits photography, video recording at Central Vista construction site

Amid criticism over the Central Vista Redevelopment Project, the Central Public Works Department has prohibited photography and video recording at the construction site near India Gate. Sign boards have come up at the redevelopment site of the Central Vista Avenue, which read: ‘No photography’, ‘No video recording’. An official in the CPWD, which is executing … Read more

The style-setting photography of Carlota Guerrero – in pictures

The style-setting photography of Carlota Guerrero – in pictures

The Spanish photographer’s work has seen her collaborate with musicians such as Solange Knowles and fashion houses from Dior to Nike. A new book, Tengo un Dragón Dentro del Corazón (I Have a Dragon in My Heart), is published this month by Prestel, priced £40. Here is a selection of some of its strikingly beautiful … Read more