The ‘Photo Nazi’!
Some of you might call me the ‘Photo Nazi’ but i think it is important to put the discussion out there. Every now and then I get emails from young photography enthusiasts or aspiring photographers asking for advice or showing me their portfolio seeking opinion. It sometimes takes me a few days but I always [...]
Who are these people that do travel photography anyway?
The thing about travel photography has not always been clear to me. Who are these people that do this kind of work really? I mean, travel to all these amazing places just to take pictures and show us how beautiful the place can look. You know, just go, stay at a five star hotel or [...]
Personal photo walk at the Maha Kumbh Mela, Allahabad 2001
The Kumbh Mela, the largest religious gathering on earth, is taking place these days in Haridwar and everyone makes plans to go. I recently read a post about the fact that photography is now prohibited at the Kumbh grounds, which I feel is completely ridiculous. It seems the Indian government has gone a little too [...]
Painting with Light: How to find a boring image and make it beautiful
Painting with light is something that I used to do in the time when I had my studio and was shooting still life in large format, but it is as easy to do with hand held flash and a DSLR. You have to have an image of what you want to do of course, but [...]
Video killed the radio star
Sometime back I wrote a post about street photography in India titled Maharaja’s postrait photography in 21st centure India . The post was about what today is considered an alternative photographic process that was invented in India and used for decades by many street photographers across the subcontinent, mainly India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
I have been [...]
Indian middle class
The growing middle class is the face of the Indian upswing. Excellently trained, ready to perform and happy to consume, the young social climbers liberate themselves from the burden of the past. But what do they believe in? What do they dream about? What keeps them going?
These are the opening lines for the feature about [...]
Trucking in the Himalayas
My book ‘Horn Please – Trucking in India’ is almost finished and we are scheduled to go to print in a couple of weeks. It’s been a year of extensive work and it was funny to see that some of the images that we all like the most were captured only in the last month [...]
Microfinancing loans, or Christian missionaries in disguise?
Is the NGO distributing micro loans to women in Chhatisgarh actually a front to a new Christian mission in disguise? I have just returned from Raipur, Chhatisgarh, shooting a feature about microfinancing for a German consumer magazine. The shoot was very simple and straight forward, but we have found some remarkable facts about the NGO [...]
Sephi Bergerson is a documentary photographer based in New Delhi since 2002, with easy access to all locations in south east Asia and the Indian ocean.
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The ‘Photo Nazi’!
Some of you might call me the ‘Photo Nazi’ but i think it is important to put the discussion out there. Every now and then I get emails from young photography enthusiasts or aspiring photographers asking for advice or showing me their portfolio seeking opinion. It sometimes takes me a few days but I always [...]
Who are these people that do travel photography anyway?
The thing about travel photography has not always been clear to me. Who are these people that do this kind of work really? I mean, travel to all these amazing places just to take pictures and show us how beautiful the place can look. You know, just go, stay at a five star hotel or [...]
