Author Archives: Lecercle
brightened the pine woods
Bettel, Connecticut
BY half-past 5 on a morning in early October, the sun rising over Blackwater Pond had already brightened the pine woods. I stood in a wide natural path, carpeted with brown-red needles, that rises up the forested dune from the southwest side of the pond.
I’d seen
their hoofprints in the deep
needles and knew
they ended [...]
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Thank you Wideyed, Thank you Newcastle.
Lucy Carolan, of the Wideyed collective based in North East England wrote to us inspired by Blow-Up, whether we would like to collaborate with them on an impromptu street exhibition and see whether it would work in Newcaslte? We immediately jumped at it of-course, but even we didn’t quiet realize what lengths Wideyed would [...]
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Call for Photography – The Bangalore Queer Film Festival
The Bangalore Queer Film Festival (BQFF) 2010 —CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
Concept
Understanding one’s own sexuality is a struggle, telling your family is one thing, but finding a rag-tag bunch of people who you will share your desires with is another. The search is for broad chests of reassurance, shared cigarettes, gossip exchanged over too many cups of [...]
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Indian Napping
I think Indian Show a particular talent for extreme napping.
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No Time for Love, in Srinagar
["Jaddu ki" (Magic) Cigarette - usually hash]
As Harzatbal’s evening call for prayer resounds over the Dall, Ajaz walks through one of Srinagar’s many martyrs’ graveyards.
The young man in worn-out jeans and a body hugging tee swaggers past unkempt tombstones counting friends and family that are buried there – there were 21 of them. He [...]
Roundup : Delhi Blow Up
A SEAT of power for more than a thousand years, the city-state of Delhi is a survivor of conquest and change. New Delhi the location for our third photographic street intervention, after Bangalore and Paris we head to Delhi.
THE LOCATION : Cannaught Place
Today, new money has conquered the inner circle of C.P making it the [...]
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America in Medium Format
[Read also Dharavi in Medium Format]
I bought the Mamiya a new lens 50mm super wide. I’ve sort of fallen in love with the results.
[A man looks shifts through bargain art at a Thrift store in Boston. It's also the first place (and probably last) I've ever bought an alarm clock.]
[A truck stop for the bolt [...]
BLOWUP DELHI !
15 NOVEMBER, CONNAUGHT PLACE, NEW DELHI
After it’s Success in Bangalore and Paris, we turn our eyes on Delhi
Blow.up is an exercise bringing photography to the streets.
Life is on display on the street — people walk, sit, stand, sleep, drive, drink, eat, piss, talk, mingle, fight, and love. The street is where groups collide and where [...]
Nehru takes a break at Blindboys HQ
Nehru takes a break at Blindboys HQ
Photography assistant needed in Mumbai