Browsing Tag: Photography

Beauty is that which does not reveal itself in totality. It holds an element of mystery,...

Harman Gosal and Alexia Addo-Nyarko, Grade 8 students from the Isaac Brock Public School in Brampton were awarded the first and third place prizes respectively (in the intermediate category) of Passages Canada’s Imagine Culture Photo Contest.

So I wondered if I could do something similar, meet random people on the streets, ask them about their life or work or experiences and post it online with a photo; hoping I would find the good that is hidden but present in every person, I would share the story that's always unheard,...

India’s One & Only Wedding Photographer to Achieve the Limca Book Of Records! An inspirational journey of how his passion for photography drove the spark of creating a record in the field of his interest!

This mother's day, to celebrate Sikh mothers and mother-figures, Kaur Life & the Dasvand Network (DVN) is holding a photo contest!

Why search elsewhere? Searching elsewhere, life ends. In search, I returned after ascending the mountain and found Him in my body castle

To my curious mind, a journey to understand the various schools of Indian philosophical system, has led me to one and only conclusion that the whole is too large and at best can only be seen in parts, through our own limited senses.

It was today, 339 years ago, that Guru Tegh Bahadur, the 9th Guru of the Sikhs displayed an act that no other prophet had ever done. He sacrificed his life to protect the right of any individual to practice a faith of his choice and to not be pressurized into conversion.

'Multitude of forms, yet no form' ~ This simple philosophy holds the key to all inclusiveness. It has the power to make one focus on living a value based lifestyle...

Photographers Naroop Singh Jhooti and Amit Amin noticed last year that beards were becoming a fashion statement in the UK.

The Nihangs of today are respected by the whole of Sikh community in spite of their role remaining ceremonial. Photographer Mark Hartman has documented various Nihangs and their attire in the photo series titled 'Bole So Nihal'.

Very early in my career, taught me the importance of being mindful of one’s conduct as reputation takes a long to build and can be destroyed in an instance.

Beside his grave old glory waved, For his country his life he gave, Staring at his name etched in stone, He gave all and is not alone, ...

Have you achieved anything worthy of reflection in this mortal form?

I am glad Sukhbinder has added another dimension to my passionate research about the General.

During a journey performed over thirty years I hope to continue to discover more places where the General had once stepped.

To appreciate the association of Consciousness with Mount Kailash, one needs to see an aerial view of its landscape. Within it’s proximity, radiating like spokes from the hub of a wheel, four mighty rivers of Asia take course towards the east, west, northwest and south.

Unique stringed instruments were adopted to create emotions that complemented the spiritual message being delivered through singing of hymns.

The aerial view of the domes, will reveal the design of a lotus flower. Lotus blooms in a dirty pond, signifying the need to live in an elevated consciousness by rising above the day to day worldly issues of life.

Amardeep Singh's beautiful photographs are full of a blend of spirituality and aesthetics. This is part II of our coverage of Amardeep Singh.

Amardeep Singh's beautiful photographs are full of a blend of spirituality and aesthetics. This is part I of our coverage of Amardeep Singh.

The first ever daguerreotype – photo – portrait of a Sikh or Punjabi was taken in Lahore in early 1848 by Dr John McCosh, a surgeon in the army of the British East India Company. The subject was Diwan Mool Raj, the Sikh Governor of Multan, taken captive and condemned to death by the British.

...as the general public was gathering more information about Sikhs after the gaurdwara shooting in Wisconsin. Inspired by the color palettes and environments of the American realist painters, Aboud captures Sikhs literally in their backyards among other everyday places.

Processes that would normally appear subtle to the human eye, such as the motion of the sun and stars in the sky, become very pronounced. Time-lapse is the extreme version of the cinematography technique of undercranking, and can be confused with stop motion animation.

Gill’s work includes a decade-long study of people living in rural communities in Rajasthan, including Jogi nomads, Muslim migrants and Bishnoi peasants and a series of photographs that Gill took while living with an elderly midwife in a remote village in Motasar, Barmer (Gill ended up helping the woman deliver her own granddaughter.)

In 2008 we assembled a team of film making enthusiasts inspired by the films produced by Sikhs worldwide the previous year. Our first movie was The Warrior - it combined martial arts and comedy with an underlying message about the 5 mental thieves.

Your feet are your most powerful tool in prayer. They carry your intention; they receive the Earth. How you walk defines you and your relationship with the world.

In India, he brings his style of contemporary portraiture to photographing the Sikh Regiment in Jharkhand. It took him a year and a half to get through the army's red tape but it appears to be worth the effort.

Practical photographic seminars at Art in Action, the premier arts and craftsmanship showcase in the UK. The event takes place near Oxford and runs from the 15th – 18th July. It’s a truly wonderful experience to attend and I hope that I’ll see many of you there.

Blessings come in many shapes and forms. Jagatjoti Singh is a man who has become very aware of this and has developed a way to share his insight with a new book and Web site in which children with Down's syndrome are celebrated through amazing photography.