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The ‘Ranjan Kundu Saga’, nicknamed ‘Mr. CHECKMATE’, The New York Photography Award 2023 Winner 2023 : Bollywood News

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The ‘Ranjan Kundu Saga’, nicknamed ‘Mr. CHECKMATE’, The New York Photography Award 2023 Winner 2023 : Bollywood News

The ‘Ranjan Kundu Saga’ is a testament to relentless dedication, an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, and an artistic brilliance that transcends borders. His multifaceted expertise spanning technology, photography, and poetry, serves as an inspiration, echoing the narrative that true mastery knows no confines.

The ‘Ranjan Kundu Saga’, nicknamed ‘Mr. CHECKMATE’, The New York Photography Award 2023 Winner

Renowned as India’s most internationally award-winning photographer and celebrity photographer, Ranjan Kundu, the creative genius, is taking the world of international photography by storm. Ranjan Kundu, Nicknamed as ‘Mr. Checkmate’ for his globally acclaimed Photo-Poem Frame named “Checkmate”, a fusion of photography and poetry, has won several international awards and earned a reputation by exhibiting his work at prestigious photography arenas.

Poem: Checkmate

Checkmate By Ranjan Kundu

In a game of Chess,
Between Life and The Man of Imagination,
And, a life-full living being at the center,
And, the reflection of the dance Of the soul in its eyes.
Sun Vs Moon,
Day Vs Night,
Light Vs Darkness,
Truth Vs Illusion,
Hope Vs Despair,
Humane Vs Moneyist,
Love Vs Lust,
Realization Vs Revenge,
Salvation Vs Damnation.

In a game of Chess,
Between Life and The Man of Imagination,
And, a life-full living being at the centre,
And, the reflection of the dance
Of the soul in it’s eyes.

The Man of Imagination
Checkmates Life,
In the maze of Life,
In the form of a Chessboard.

Checkmate by

The Man of Imagination.

Ranjan Kundu secured his place as the First Indian photographer to Win the prestigious New York Photography Award in 2023. His name is enrolled in a list of notable achievements that have cemented his position as a pioneer in the field of photography. He also won the prestigious Platinum Award at the European Photography Awards 2023, which has added another achievement to his kitty. His journey began with the achievement of becoming the First Indian photographer to achieve the title of First Place Winner at the Umbra International Photography Awards 2018 in USA, which set the grand stage for his rise in the international photography arena.

Ranjan Kundu, the First Indian Photographer whose work was featured on the Front Cover of 6XMEDIA Magazine AUTUMN EDITION 2023 in Atlanta, USA and his interview was also published inside the magazine. His work was also featured on the front cover of Lamour Magazine Fashion Special Edition 2023 in Paris, France and his interview was also published inside the magazine. Ranjan Kundu became the first photographer to be the Cover Face of Xpert Magazine 30 Under 30 Special Edition, India and his interview was also published inside the magazine.

Ranjan Kundu’s incredible artistic talent was recognized by the prestigious Monovision Photography Awards for two consecutive years in 2019 and 2020, a result of his harmonious excellence and unique talent. His remarkable talent and artistic vision has earned him awards and recognition at renowned platforms such as ND Awards 2019, LensCulture Portrait Awards 2019, Monovision Photography Awards 2019, LensCulture Portrait Awards 2020, and Monovision Photography Awards 2020, cementing his position as one of the greatest photographers

In 2021, he earned awards and recognitions in the 16th Black & White Spider Awards, the 7th Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA), and LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2021, where his immense talent and skills were showcased and appreciated by industry professionals.

Apart from the impressive spread of his name, Ranjan Kundu’s finest work has also received exposure in renowned exhibitions around the world. His photographs have graced prestigious platforms such as the Arhust London International Multimedia Exhibition 2019 in London, UK, 3rd ONYX 2019: International Exhibition of Photography in Romania, Odyssey Exhibition 2019 in Pennsylvania, USA, and Blank Wall Gallery 2023 Exhibition in Athens, Greece, leaving an unfading mark on audiences around the world.

Ranjan Kundu’s educational voyage traverses extraordinary realms. His academic repertoire boasts a Professional Diploma in NASA System Engineering, a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, and a Human Resource Management certification from the esteemed International Business Management Institute (IBMI) in Berlin, Germany. This thirst for knowledge led him to pursue a LEAN SIX SIGMA Certification from the Council for SIX SIGMA Certification (CSSC) in New York, USA, solidifying his technical and managerial prowess. Ranjan Kundu also has a Humanitarian Certification from UNICEF.

In the realm of Information Technology, Ranjan Kundu’s expertise gleams brightly. His certifications in IT programming, Network Communication, MySQL in RDBMS, ERP-SAP in Data Processing, and Network Communication Fundamentals attest to his comprehensive grasp of the field. His journey further expands into digital marketing and analytics, where he stands as a Google Certified Expert with certifications in Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Google Data Studio, Google My Business, Google Analytics 360, Google Analytics for Power Users, Advanced Google Analytics

Notably, Ranjan Kundu’s portfolio extends beyond marketing, encompassing certifications in CISSP, CCBA, CAPM, and PMI-ACP. Yet, his brilliance transcends the realms of technology. His expertise in Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is reflected in certifications such as AR Game Development, VR Development with Controllers, and Game-Playing A.I. with S4TF from

IBM. His foray into these cutting-edge technologies cements his position as an innovator in transformative fields.

In honor of his wacky talent, Ranjan Kundu has cemented his position as one of the most versed photographers. His firm commitment to photography, intertwined with his creativity and passion for storytelling along with his photography skills, inspires aspiring photographers both in the world of international photography, and national photography.

In Ranjan Kundu’s story, boundaries dissolve, leaving a legacy of excellence and a roadmap for aspiring minds to chart their path toward boundless achievement.

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The Civil War Photographers Before Kirsten Dunst

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The Civil War Photographers Before Kirsten Dunst

The Civil War Photographers Before Kirsten Dunst

The Still Picture Branch of the National Archives contains the glass-plate negatives of the real Civil War, including those by the photographer Timothy O’Sullivan.

By Robert Sullivan

April 29, 2024

Billy Wade holding a piece of paper with gloves.
Illustration by João Fazenda

Alex Garland’s new film, “Civil War,” follows two war photographers on a road trip from New York to Washington, D.C., via the blue highways of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The more experienced photographer, played by Kirsten Dunst, uses a Sony digital camera, while her apprentice, played by Cailee Spaeny, shoots a Nikon and makes old-school film negatives of a fictional civil war. A real-life road trip to Washington, D.C., via I-95, brings you past the National Archives campus in College Park, Maryland, where the archivists in the Still Picture Branch manage the actual photos of the actual Civil War and the negatives from which they were printed. Like Spaeny’s character, actual Civil War photographers developed images in the field, theirs made on glass plates coated with collodion, a syrupy chemical compound that was also used by Civil War-era surgeons as a liquid bandage.

After a century and a half, the Civil War-era glass-plate negatives, sensitive to light and air, have been carefully stored. One of the very few people who have come in contact with them during the past two decades is Billy Wade, the Still Picture Branch’s supervisory archivist. There are roughly nine thousand plates from the war and subsequent Western surveys, which ended in the eighteen-seventies. The cabinets that house the plates are sky blue. Each shelf holds about a hundred, all in a NASA-level climate-­controlled room. Last week, Wade told a visitor, “The other day, I was in there, and I thought, I wonder if anybody will ever ask what they look like, so I took a picture with my phone.” In the image he made, the cabinets have a nineteen-sixties computer-lab vibe: the rows of plates in flapped enclosures could be powerful servers that fuel the national memory bank.

“I’ve got some things pulled,” Wade said. He went away and returned pushing a cart holding prints made by Alexander Gardner, a Scottish photographer who started the war working for the better-­known Mathew Brady, then went out on his own. All the photographs were made for what is often called the first photo book, “Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War.” At the center of Gardner’s book is one of the archive’s most frequently requested photos of the time, made by his partner Timothy O’Sullivan, at Gettysburg, after the battle. Gardner titled it “A Harvest of Death,” and it is fascinating for the way the details of the dead are in sharp focus, while the living are like ghosts. After the war, O’Sullivan went West with scientists and soldiers and made what is probably the archive’s most requested survey photograph—a sand dune, about three miles long, in Nevada. That picture features the army ambulance that O’Sullivan converted into a travelling darkroom. The photo of the sand dune, creamy and smooth, is an albumen print, made with an antique process that uses egg whites. (Photographic journals at the time featured cheesecake recipes.)

Among the fourteen million unique analog photos at the Still Picture Branch are images from every war that has been photographed. It is common for veterans to visit; the parking lot is often dotted with cars bearing Vietnam War insignia. “We’ve had war photographers come in here and say they remember making these pictures,” Wade said.

Recently, Dennis Fisher, a Marine combat photographer now in his seventies, stopped in to see negatives that he had developed in Vietnam, in 1967 and 1968. He was assisted by Cecilia Figliuolo, an archivist with an interest in combat photography, who spoke to him about the photos he had made twenty-eight years before she was born. “One of the first things he said to me was, ‘This is the first time I’ve held these negatives since I was 20 or 21,’ ” she wrote in “The Unwritten Record,” one of the archive’s blogs. Sitting with the veteran, Figliuolo learned details that the archivists could only have guessed at. As Fisher studied a picture of two men firing mortars in May, 1968—part of a U.S. operation to clear land south of Da Nang—he told Figliuolo that he had brought a tape recorder along on the mission, to record the sonic chaos. “Did you take your recorder out with you every time?” she asked.

“No, I took it out once, and it was such a pain in the ass to lug around I never took it out again,” he said.

When Fisher returned home from the archive, he phoned Figliuolo, and played her the cassette tape, but what she remembered long after his visit was that, when he had stared at the battle scenes in the archive, it was as if that audiotape were playing in his head. “In that moment, I could tell that he could hear it,” she said. “He remembered everything.” ♦

OnePlus introduces ‘The Red Perspective’ photography book: All details

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OnePlus introduces ‘The Red Perspective’ photography book: All details

Smartphone maker OnePlus has unveiled its first-ever limited-edition Shot on OnePlus Book, titled The Red Perspective. “’The Red Perspective’ initiative serves as a testament to the OnePlus community and RCC members’ passion for photography and creative ambitions empowered by their OnePlus devices,” said the company.
The exclusive Red Perspective book presents a selection of carefully chosen visuals contributed by members of the Red Cable Club and the community, offering a glimpse into life from their unique perspectives.Covering a diverse array of themes, including macro photography, black and white captures, wildlife, nature, travel, and lifestyle imagery, the book provides a rich tapestry of visual storytelling.
Ishita Grover, director of marketing, OnePlus India, said, “We are thrilled to introduce our first-ever limited-edition Shot on OnePlus Book, ‘The Red Perspective’. The idea behind this unique Shot On OnePlus initiative is to encourage the creative ambitions of our talented OnePlus community and bring their perspectives and creative efforts to life through the power of OnePlus’ unparalleled camera capabilities.”
“Each photograph in ‘The Red Perspective’ is thoughtfully curated which instills deep emotion and transports viewers to captivating moments. The selection criteria prioritized the meaning alongside visual appeal. ‘The Red Perspective’ celebrates innovation and creativity, showcasing our community’s unique perspectives through photograph,” added the company.
The Red Perspective will soon be on display at chosen OnePlus Retail stores.

A Who’s Who of the Photo World Brushed Elbows at AIPAD’s Photography Show

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A Who’s Who of the Photo World Brushed Elbows at AIPAD’s Photography Show
CULTURE CLUB

Last week, the Photography Show made a triumphant return to the Park Avenue Armory, where the fair last exhibited in 2016. Top photographers, galleries, curators, museum directors, and industry leaders flocked to the show and enjoyed artist talks and book signings. The Photography Show’s Talks Series included addresses from 2024 AIPAD Award winner Vince Aletti, SFMOMA’s David Mahoney, and photography’s most illustrious names, and captivated fair-goers each day. Notables in attendance included Helen Toomer, Marina Abramovíc, Patricia Arquette, Maurizio Catalan, Andre D. Wagner, Lydia Melamed Johnson, Renee Cox Dawoud Bey, Carolyn Drake, Hej Shin, Vera Lutter, and more. Photo credit: Sansho Scott/BFA.


BY JENNA ADRIAN-DIAZ

April 29, 2024

Opus 40 Sculpture Park to receive $350,000 grant from NYS Council on the Arts

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Opus 40 Sculpture Park to receive $350,000 grant from NYS Council on the Arts
SAUGERTIES- Erika Mallin, executive director of the New York State Council on the Arts, announced that NYSCA will be allocating $32 million in capital project funding for organizations.  One of those capital projects funding is $350,000 to Opus 40. “The over 100 projects we’re supporting through this funding will showcase arts and cultural organizations  across the […]

Pro landscape photographer John Miskelly on why he likes playing the long game

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Pro landscape photographer John Miskelly on why he likes playing the long game

“While I’m very fortunate to work as a professional landscape photographer, it’s also really important to challenge yourself and find those personal projects that get your creative juices flowing. Being able to combine my photography with my love of being in wild and remote places, whether that be on a beach or in the mountains, is my perfect combination. With that in mind, I’ve been working on a series of images over the past couple of years that represent these wild places, where the weather often becomes an integral part of the image and contributes to the emotion that I felt whilst being there. 

Tungeneset in Senja looking towards the Okshornan Mountains, better known as the Devil’s Teeth. (Image credit: John Miskelly)

Most of the images in this series are long exposures, ranging from 30 seconds to eight minutes. I use long exposure to remove unnecessary detail from the water and the sky. That allows me to create strong, simple compositions free of distractions. These images were all taken in challenging weather conditions, whether that was a blizzard in Senja, storms in Lofoten or gale-force winds in Iceland, while the image from Harris in the Outer Hebrides was taken on a much more ‘normal’ Scottish day, which was simply cold and wet! As you can see, I’m drawn to those colder and more rugged locations.

A lone tree near Botnvatnet Lake, Senja. (Image credit: John Miskelly)

The biggest challenge in a project like this is keeping the gear as dry as possible, particularly the front of the filters that I almost always use, along with ensuring my own safety, especially when balancing on the rocks with big waves coming in with the storm, as they did in Uttakleiv in Lofoten. 

Uttakleiv Strand in Lofoten, Norway, during a storm. (Image credit: John Miskelly)

When I was in Iceland recently, the main road that runs around the country, called Route One, had been closed for a 200km section for nearly two days due to gale-force winds. After being stuck for 36 hours at Vestrahorn, I managed to get to Diamond Beach, and I was the only person there. I had to sleep in the back of the car as it rocked and rolled, and I cooked my dinner in the nearby gents’ toilets. But the dawn light was amazing and it was a true privilege to experience the rawness of nature.

From Nisabost Beach looking towards Ceapabhal, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides. (Image credit: John Miskelly)

In terms of kit, I like to keep it relatively simple and light, preferring to use a couple of lenses that I know really well and know how they’ll perform. I use a Nikon Z 7, often paired with the Z 24-70mm f/4 S zoom and a PC-E 24mm f/3.5 tilt-shift lens, which I absolutely love for its optical quality. I also use the Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S ultra-wide zoom when I need something wider as it’s also fabulous. The weather-sealing is top class, it’s never let me down over all the years I’ve used it, along with my previous Nikon gear. When this setup is paired with my LEE ND filters, I’m able to capture my signature long-exposure images. 

The Diamond Beach, near Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon on the south coast of Iceland. (Image credit: John Miskelly)

I think this is one of those series that won’t be finished for quite some time, as it’s not every day you get the right combination of weather, tides and light. Of course, this is part of the attraction in going for something that is both challenging to achieve and very satisfying when you get the feeling that you’ve captured something a bit special”.  

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Local photographer focused on helping others

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Local photographer focused on helping others
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Not having many photographs of his family growing up, Michael Hudson makes it his mission to ensure those who want lasting images of significant life events have them.

“I had very few photos of myself and my family growing up, so I always just wanted to capture people,” Hudson said. “My job is to deliver memories to people. I’m in search of the perfect portrait.”

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