SPOILER ALERT!! “Fate is a hunter, shame is a hunter, guilt is a hunter, fear is a hunter.” The whole story is stitched up by these four phrases, front and back. Four phrases from four estranged individual. A war-torn Germany. Four people with four dark secrets. Four different lands. All equally ravaged by the curse […]
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A quite afternoon. A gallery. Staring at an old Renaissance masterpiece. Maybe it’s a Caravaggio or a Vermeer. The faces are illuminated with a divine glow, the shadows seem to hold secrets, and every detail— every fold of fabric or twist of a hand—seems deliberate. You’re transported to another time, another story. Now imagine that
The Influence of Renaissance Art on Documentary Photography Read Post »
The moment my father would change the channel to ABP News, I would put up my most irritated face on display. The barrage of cruelties around the world and political complicacies would ruin my blissful period of watching Naruto (for you boring people out there, it is ANIME, not an effing cartoon). I always wanted
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In a world dominated by scrolling and swiping, attention spans are shrinking at an alarming rate. Studies suggest that the average human attention span has dropped to just 8.25 seconds, shorter than that of a goldfish. Much of this can be attributed to the rise of social media platforms, where content is designed to capture—and
Scroll, Swipe, Forget: How Social Media is Stealing the Spotlight from Still Photography Read Post »