Gregory Colbert

Born in Toronto, Canada in 1960, Gregory Colbert is a photographer best known as the creator of Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of photographic artworks and films housed in the Nomadic Museum.

                                         Ashes and Snow

Gregory Colbert's first exhibition, Timewaves, opened in 1992 at the Museum of Elysée in Switzerland to wide critical acclaim. For the next ten years, Colbert did not publicly exhibit his art or show any films. Instead, he traveled to such places as India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Dominica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tonga, Namibia, and Antarctica to film and photograph interactions between human beings and animals. Since 1992, he has launched more than sixty such expeditions, and has collaborated with over 130 species. Elephants, whales, manatees, sacred ibis, Antigone cranes, royal eagles, Gyr falcons, rhinoceros hornbills, cheetahs, leopards, African wild dogs, caracals, baboons, eland, meerkats, gibbon, orangutans, and saltwater crocodiles are among the animals he has filmed and photographed. Human subjects include Burmese monks, trance dancers, San people, and other indigenous tribes from around the world.

In 2002, Colbert presented his work, Ashes and Snow, in Venice, Italy. An April 9, 2002 review in The Globe and Mail stated, “Colbert unveiled Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of images and photographs unprecedented in both scope and scale. Covering 12,600 square meters, it is billed as one of the largest one-man shows in the history of Europe.”

In spring 2005, the show opened in New York City in the Nomadic Museum, a temporary structure built to house the exhibition. Ashes and Snow and the Nomadic Museum then traveled to Santa Monica in 2006, Tokyo in 2007, and Mexico City in 2008. To date, Ashes and Snow has attracted over 10 million visitors, making it the most attended exhibition by a living artist in history.

Ashes and Snow has been a critical and popular success. Photo magazine declared, “A new master is born.” Ashes and Snow has been described as "extraordinary" by the Economist, and "distinctive . . . monumental in every sense" by the Wall Street Journal. Stern magazine declared that the photographs are "fascinating," and Vanity Fair described Gregory Colbert as "Best of the Best." An article in 2002 in the New York Times by Alan Riding stated “The power of the images comes less from their formal beauty than from the way they envelop the viewer in their mood. . . .They are simply windows to a world in which silence and patience govern time.”

Colbert began his career in Paris in 1983 making documentary films on social issues. His documentary, On the Brink-An AIDS chronicle, was filmed in nine countries, and was nominated for an ACE award in 1985 in the category of best documentary. Other film projects include Last Words and Finding a Way Home. Film-making led to fine arts photography.

Gregory Colbert has been the recipient of a number of awards and distinctions. In 2006 he was awarded the "Best Curator of the Year" at the Lucie Awards. In 2007, his film, Ashes and Snow was nominated for a special prize at the Venice Film festival. Most recently, he was named the honorary ambassador of culture and tourism to Mexico.

The Nomadic Museum, the traveling home of Ashes and Snow, is charted to travel the  with no final destination.

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The above photo was taken by me whil we were in tour from my college, College of Enginerring Adoor(CEA). On this opportunity I would like to thanks my comerades Rakesh. R and Rakesh Krishnan, who were the boss for me in photography while in college. This photo was taken in Rakesh's Camera. Thank you buddy.

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"How dare you.."-- Thought that went throught cow's mind.

The snap taken while we went a trip to wagamon. The cow was actually not posing, it was soo hungry. So it was expecting some food from us. What we have done is that instead of giving food we have taken a snap. This looks beautiful.
So COW, you are now going to hit the fame of my photographs...
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In the darkness...............

The snap that I took in my new mobile- "LG Optimus one", which has no flash.
But this photo is one among the nice snaps that I have took.
The main reason is that without a flash in the camera it is a big challenge for me to take the snap at night. But I succeeded in the challenge..
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Now into the background process.

The main thing that we need to take a photo is a Camera. With the introduction of new technology, the face of photography has been changing rapidly. Whether you're looking for a film or digital camera or a compact or professional camera, knowing the options will help you make a good decision.

Types
There are two types of cameras, the point-and-shoot and the SLR. Both types come in film or digital varieties.

Function
Most people opt for point-and-shoot cameras, which are small and compact. They have automatic functions that make them ideal for taking on trips. SLR stands for "single lens reflex." This refers to how the camera lets light enter it. SLRs are larger and more awkward to lug around, but they take much better pictures than point-and-shoot cameras.

Features
Point-and-shoot cameras are easy to carry and simple to use, though they can have some manual functions. But if you want excellent picture quality and professional-looking pictures, an SLR camera is a better choice. SLR cameras give you more control over the look of your image and more options, because you can change lenses.

What is Photography?

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still pictures by recording radiation on a radiation-sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or electronic image sensors.
Photography uses foremost radiation in the UV, visible and near-IR spectrum. For common purposes the term light is used instead of radiation.
Light reflected or emitted from objects form a real image on a light sensitive area (film or plate) or a FPA pixel array sensor by means of a pin hole or lens in a device known as a camera during a timed exposure.
The result on film or plate is a latent image, subsequently developed into a visual image (negative or diapositive).
An image on paper base is known as a print. The result on the FPA pixel array sensor is an electrical charge at each pixel which is electronically processed and stored in a computer (raster)-image file for subsequent display or processing.
Photography has many uses for business, science, manufacturing (f.i. Photolithography), art, and recreational purposes.Photography is the result of combining several technical discoveries. Long before the first photographs were made, Chinese philosopher Mo Di and Greek mathematicians Aristotle and Euclid described a pinhole camera in the 5th and 4th centuries BC.

~~~~~~~~~~~~Processes~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Monochrome photography

All photography was originally monochrome, or black-and-white. Even after color film was readily available, black-and-white photography continued to dominate for decades, due to its lower cost and its "classic" photographic look. It is important to note that some monochromatic pictures are not always pure blacks and whites, but also contain other hues depending on the process. The cyanotype process produces an image of blue and white for example. The albumen process, first used more than 150 years ago, produces brown tones.
Many photographers continue to produce some monochrome images, often because of the established archival permanence of well processed silver halide based materials.
Some full color digital images are processed using a variety of techniques to create black and whites, and some manufacturers produce digital cameras that exclusively shoot monochrome.

2. Color photography

Color photography was explored beginning in the mid-19th century. Early experiments in color could not fix the photograph and prevent the color from fading. The first permanent color photo was taken in 1861 by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
Early color photograph taken by Prokudin-Gorskii (1915).One of the early methods of taking color photos was to use three cameras. Each camera would have a color filter in front of the lens. This technique provides the photographer with the three basic channels required to recreate a color image in a darkroom or processing plant. Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii developed another technique, with three color plates taken in quick succession.
Practical application of the technique was held back by the very limited color response of early film; however, in the early 20th century, following the work of photo-chemists such as H. W. Vogel, emulsions with adequate sensitivity to green and red light at last became available

3. Full spectrum photography

Ultraviolet and infrared films have been available for many decades and employed in a variety of photographic avenues since the 1960s. New technological trends in digital photography have opened a new direction in full spectrum photography, where careful filtering choices across the ultraviolet, visible and infrared lead to new artistic visions.
Modified digital cameras can detect some ultraviolet, all of the visible and much of the near infrared spectrum, as most digital imaging sensors are sensitive from about 350 nm to 1000 nm. An off-the-shelf digital camera contains an infrared hot mirror filter that blocks most of the infrared and a bit of the ultraviolet that would otherwise be detected by the sensor, narrowing the accepted range from about 400 nm to 700 nm.[20] Replacing a hot mirror or infrared blocking filter with an infrared pass or a wide spectrally transmitting filter allows the camera to detect the wider spectrum light at greater sensitivity. Without the hot-mirror, the red, green and blue (or cyan, yellow and magenta) colored micro-filters placed over the sensor elements pass varying amounts of ultraviolet (blue window) and infrared (primarily red, and somewhat lesser the green and blue micro-filters).

4. Digital photography

Traditional photography burdened photographers working at remote locations without easy access to processing facilities, and competition from television pressured photographers to deliver images to newspapers with greater speed. Photo journalists at remote locations often carried miniature photo labs and a means of transmitting images through telephone lines. In 1981, Sony unveiled the first consumer camera to use a charge-coupled device for imaging, eliminating the need for film: the Sony Mavica. While the Mavica saved images to disk, the images were displayed on television, and the camera was not fully digital. In 1991, Kodak unveiled the DCS 100, the first commercially available digital single lens reflex camera. Although its high cost precluded uses other than photojournalism and professional photography, commercial digital photography was born.



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Snap that attracted me the most from the youth festival.

The photo explains the emotion of a candidate, who is waiting for the results in the Kerala State Youth Festival, which is considered as the biggest cultural fest in Asia. This photo was a file photo taken during the youth festival 2005. Now we don’t have any first place or second place, we have grades so there is no competition between the candidates.

Victor George- A great famous photographer who made his photos memorable.

Victor George (April 10, 1955–July 9, 2001) was a photographer from Kerala, India who died in 2001 while taking pictures of landslides in Kerala Geography of Kerala#Natural Hazards in Kerala. He was working in an Indian Publication (Malayala Manorama, NewsPaper) as Chief Photo Editor. His works include Portrait of "Rain". Victor set out from Kottayam, on July 9, 2001, to cover a landslide that had claimed three lives near Thodupuzha in Idukki district. That afternoon, the torrential rains unleashed a second landslide. Cameramen and reporters, who had gathered on the slopes of Venniyani Mala, ran for their lives. But Victor lingered, unmindful of the rocks hurtling down or the shouts of his colleagues, his camera focussed on the diabolic beauty. In a flash, he had disappeared — lost in the rushing water and avalanche of rocks that tore down the hillside.

For two days, they scoured Venniyani Mala, while people all over Kerala watched, hoped and prayed. The third day, a friend saw fingers raised above the mud, a hundred metres below the landslide. Army men and villagers gently retrieved the body, the broken strap of the camera coiled around the neck.

For Victor, there was drama in the ordinary and the everyday, not just in events making headlines. His acute eye could frame a riveting picture from an elderly pavement dweller's defeated face or an excited crowd at a village football tournament. He found as much lyricism in a group of crows perched on a bridge in the rain as the gazelle-like stride of P.T. Usha burning up the tracks.

ACHIEVMENTS

1983 - Received the Gulf Malayalee State Award for Best News Photography.

1985 - UNICEF Award and was selected as one of the Top 10 Photographs in a competition jointly held by UNICEF and Information and Broadcasting Ministry.

1985 - He also won the professional category prize in the sports photo Competition held by Sports Authority of India. 1989 - Bulgarian Award for photography.

1994 - Covered 12th Asiad, Heroshima along with Sports Editor, Sanil P. Thomas.

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