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Street Focus 88: Streets of the World - Bangkok with Rammy Narula
Rammy Narula is a Bangkok-based photographer with a deep passion for travelling and exploring the streets. His work covers personal projects, portraits, and photography resulting from countless hours roaming the streets of the cities he visits. His most recent work, Platform 10, a project that was shot on a single platform at the Hua Lamphong Train Station in Bangkok, has been widely featured and is being made into a photobook with Peanut Press, a publishing house in New York. The book is set to be published in the fall of 2016.
As a member of the APF and Street Photo Thailand collectives, Rammy is a strong believer of education. He offers private sessions as well as participates as a mentor in several workshops held by both his Collectives. He also writes weekly photography blogs which appear on the APF and Street Photo Thailand Facebook groups and is a moderator of several of the largest street photography groups on both Facebook and Flickr. With a strong inclination towards philosophy, he believes his role is to encourage people to think about their work more deeply and reframe their minds.
Connect with him:
www.rammynarula.com
www.flickr.com/rammynarula
www.instagram.com/ramster8
www.facebook.com/ramster8
A few recent highlight features:
“Platform 10” on Wired http://www.wired.com/2016/02/a-bangkok-train-station-never-looked-so-film-noir/?mbid=social_twitter#slide-10
“Platform 10” on Featureshoot http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/12/visions-of-transience-and-intrigue-in-bangkoks-central-station
Book Launch news http://peanutpressbooks.com/blogs/news/112149191-upcoming-titles-from-peanut-press









Participate in photo walks to gain confidence in photographing other people
Share your experience (have your own little blog)
* Publish your photos carefully (photo selection)


 

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Street Focus 86: One Hour With Peter Turnley

My guest this week does not need an introduction. He has covered the world's most important events for the past 30 years. His images have appeared on the covers of the most prestigious news magazines. Please enjoy an hour with Peter Turnley!

Peter Turnley

Peter Turnley is renowned for his photography of the realities of the human condition. His photographs have been featured on the cover of Newsweek forty-three times and are published frequently in many of the world’s most prestigious publications. He has worked in over ninety countries and has witnessed most major stories of international geopolitical and historic significance in the last forty years.

Turnley has photographed most of the world’s conflicts, including the Gulf War of 1991, the Balkans (Bosnia), Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Kosovo, the 2003 war in Iraq. He has produced portraits and covered many of the modern world’s most influential people: Obama, Castro, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin, Mandela, Arafat, Schroeder, Ceausescu, Gaddafi, Chirac, Clinton, Reagan, Bush Sr., Lady Diana, and Pope Jean Paul II among others.

Since 1975 Turnley has also continually photographed the life of Paris, his adopted home. He was born in the U.S. but has lived more than half his life in Paris, where he worked as the assistant to the photographer Robert Doisneau in his early days in Paris in 1981.

Turnley has photographed extensively the life of Cuba since 1989 and has a new book out this fall, Cuba: A Grace of Spirit.

A graduate of the University of Michigan, the Sorbonne of Paris, and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, Turnley has received honorary doctorate degrees from the New School of Social Research in New York, Ohio Wesleyan University and St. Francis College of Indiana. He received a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard for the academic year 2000–2001.

Among the many international awards Turnley has won are the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad, numerous awards and citations from World Press Photo, and the University of Missouri’s Pictures of the Year competition.

Turnley lives in both New York and Paris and has published seven books: Beijing Spring, Moments of Revolution, In Times of War and Peace, Parisians, McClellan Street, French Kiss: A Love Letter to Paris, and Cuba: A Grace of Spirit. His books can be purchased directly from his website:

Peter's website: www.peterturnley.com

His latest books:
French Kiss: A Love Letter to Paris
Cuba: A Grace of Spirit
Other resources:
Peter Turnley's Street Photography Workshops
Peter Turnley's Moments of the Human Condition Video



 



Connect with Ken Lyons via his website.

And the winners are...

The last street challenge was Humor on the Streets.

Ken picked a photograph by Jane Sheers

©Jane Sheers

 

Valerie picked a photograph by Mark Silberman

©Mark Zilberman

 

Congratulations! Both winners will receive an ebook of their choice from our friends are RockyNook!

Next Street Challenge: Shadows! Deadline to enter you photograph in the show notes is May 26. Please resize your photograph 800 pixels wide. Thank you and good luck!

Picks of the week:

Ken's pick: The Fujinon XF 18-135mm

Valerie's pick: Think Tank battery holders for 4 batteries and for 2 batteries.

Now it's time to grab that camera and hit the streets!

Some shadows photographs by Valerie Jardin to inspire you. Don't forget to enter your best shot by May 26!