Photojournalism
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Published | Malaysia Aperture Photography Magazine
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Some of My Photographs Published in Malaysia Aperture Magazine | March 2013 I think there is no better way to appreciate a photograph but in prints and finally some of my recent assignment in Tokyo Japan were published in Malaysia’s Aperture Magazine March 2013 under MPPA or Malaysian Press Photographers Association. I was interviewed by Aperture Magazine writer, Nor Izani Abdullah but unfortunately the magazine is only available in Malaysia and it is written in Malay, not in English. A little bit about the articles, it is mostly about how a photojournalist, which is about my experience covering an official assignment and the protocol involved.…
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A Sense of Place | Finding Your Eye At Home And Abroad
© 2012 Craft and Vision | Younes Bounhar | A Sense of Place | Finding Your Eye At Home and Abroad “Most travel photographers make pictures to convey the appearance of a place. I try to make them to convey a “Sense of Place.” What exactly is a “Sense of Place?” To me, a “sense of place” means not just what a place actually “looks like,” but rather, how it feels, what it represents or once represented, and what it might mean to us. Making images that capture a “Sense of Place” usually involves expressing symbolic ideas central to the meaning of the place, instead of just descriptively recording its…
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Travel Photography | Ortaköy Mosque Under Restoration
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Travel Photography | The Magnificent AyaSofya, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul Turkey
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | AyaSofya | Hagia Sophia | Istanbul | Turkey Hagia Sophia (/ˈhɑːɪə soʊˈfiːə/; from the Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία [aˈʝia soˈfia], “Holy Wisdom”; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya) is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its dedication in 360 until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931, when it was secularized. It was opened…
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The Photojournalist | Behind The Scene | UMNO General Assembly 2012
© 2012 Wazari Wazir | The Photojournalist During UMNO General Assembly 2012 at PWTC | Kuala Lumpur Once I get back from Langtang Nepal, I don’t have much time to rest, in fact I was busy covering UMNO United Malays Organisation’s Annual Gathering in Kuala Lumpur from November 27 to 1st December 2012. Since the gathering will not be much of interest to most of you who visited my blog here, I just wanted to share with you, how photojournalist work during the assignment. Normally among the standard photography equipments for this type of assignment is to carry a hefty 300mm, 400mm, 500mm or even the 600mm lens to get…