Mumbai through the eyes of Sheth and Senior
The Work of Art All five images were photographed in Mumbai between 2021 and 2025. The theme ‘The Work of Art’ is an homage to the title The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing, a book by Adam Moss (Penguin Press/USA/2024) Selina Sheth and Anil Senior are writers and filmmakers based in Mumbai.…
Photographs by Mainak Majhi
Mainak Maji, is an Engineering student by degree, storyteller by instinct. He likes to capture fleeting moments through his phone’s lens, chasing light, symmetry, and stories. He feels like the world is his canvas, and his camera, a looking glassto hidden narratives in everyday life.
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The Art of Dawid Planeta
FROM “MINI PEOPLE IN THE JUNGLE” BY DAWID PLANETA “One must learn an inner solitude, wherever one may be.” – Meister Eckhart “The Hermit”, 2023, ©Dawid Tobias Planeta The young man approached the hermit. He was standing still, looking into the light. “Are you beginning to tell a story again?” the hermit asked, his eyes…
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Photo Stories : “Roads”: March 2025 Issue
ROADS–Arteries of our Collective Existence Editor’s Note Ipsita Deb When I hear the word “Road”, I visualize winding veins of bitumen cutting through various landscapes. From countrysides to urbanscapes, mountains, deserts, forests. The arteries link cities, communities, towns – arteries of our collective existence – pulsing, throbbing, vital channels carrying lives essential movements. All…
Photo-Essay: August 24 Issue
Stalking Nature : Photo Essay by Purabi Bhattacharya Save memories. The grey is overtaking all that is left green. Caged living. What once was natural is now pushed out of the margin. Lions, tigers, rhinos present a spectacle on demand. Pristine nature in most urban conversation is an illusion. The recent cloudburst or landslide stories…
April Issue—Nishi Pulugurtha
The guard has waved the green flag, Appagaru would say, the sound of the whistle that he blew could be heard softly and the wheels set in motion. We kept looking back in the direction of the platform waving goodbye for as long as we could see Appagaru, Sahu and Shibu.
April Issue:Andrzej Bilunski
The wind blows warmer. Open the window, open the door. Your little big world is waiting for you just around the corner… A sandcastle, a magical piece of chalk, bike trips, a little rocking horse. We return to our places, get used to them, discover them anew every day.
Photography Section: April Issue
THE BAT TREES OF AADORPARA— Ipsita Deb Attempting to articulate the child’s perspective, through lenses, or to write about it, is a daunting task. For me, I have always found myself, perpetually trapped within the child I left decades back. I can’t write ‘about’ the child. And so, I surrender to the intimacy of memory…
SNAPSHOTS: Photo Series August Issue.
Editor’s Note by Ipsita Deb “There is no story behind it. It is split like a second.” “The Butterfly”, Arun Kolatkar. Snapshots – often technically “imperfect” or amateurish photographs, poorly framed – are evanescent and ephemeral fragments of time, in their essence. Whether it’s an instantaneous sun-down, existing in a singular moment in history; or a sudden revelation…
Third Issue: SILENCES
What is silence? Is it ‘Death’- as one often says – ‘Dead Silence’? A deafening absence, perhaps? The absence of sound. A lack of expressive vocabulary. How to accentuate something that exists in not existing? — Does silence have any colour? Does it have any sound? Smell? Is it freezing cold or warm as a touch? The March issue of Parcham features the works of photographers that captures silences.
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Photo Essay for the October Issue.
The Tree with Many Eyes By Dr. Chayanika Saikia October brings in a mixed sensation in the air – the…
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Spring Issue: TALES
Photos By Abhik Mishra Photos By Abhradeep Ganguli Photos By Anustup Roy Photos By Arka Dey Photos By Debarghya Goswami Photos By Ipsita Deb Photos By Kanak Agrawal Photos By Suranjay Photos By Yudhajit Basu Note from the Editor: For the maiden issue of Parcham we have received a diverse range of submissions from photographers.…
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