Chirag Wakaskar
@chiragwakaskar.bsky.social
Photographer in decline. Human being in failure.
Wrote on @medium.com on how @worldpressphoto.bsky.social & Outlook India magazine misrepresented a civilian death by shielding a state actor in their 2026 world press photo contest. medium.com/@chiragwakas...
Trading Truth for Trophies: How World Press Photo and Outlook India Misrepresented a Civilian Death
The Material Reality of Conflict
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Skendha Singh@skendhasingh.bsky.social · 6mo agoI made something gentle for hard days. “16 invitations to staying human when everything feels like too much.” It’s free. You can get your copy here: tinyurl.com/The-Long-Vie... #freebie
I've this bad boy for a while now but havent used it. Going to run through a roll of HP5 400 that's expired couple of years ago. New battery in the light meter which is working! Pentax K1000 / Pentax SMC 35/3.5
India's education minister resigns in response to nationwide protests.
📸 The frame is not just about aesthetics — it’s geopolitics. A dehumanising image in the paper can become a policy memo tomorrow. And for Indians abroad, it can become the stare, the slur, the threat. More from @chiragwakaskar.bsky.social on #WorldPhotographyDay here: tinyurl.com/22ajau84
Whose Lens Is It Anyway? Two Friends Talk Photography & Power
A conversation about the politics of the gaze and the quiet work of re-imagining how we picture the world.
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At a local Mexican restaurant (San Miguelito on Oregon Ave, Philadelphia). Hole in the wall places always have the best food + run by a family.
Wrote an article on being blocked by National Geographic DOP Alex Pollack blocking me on Instagram for asking questions on representation. Also some experiences in visual journalism industry. medium.com/@chiragwakas...
National Geographic and the Twin Ghosts of Lytton and Pollock or How I Learned to Stop Worrying…
I’ve been blocked on social media several times before — photographers, editors, agencies, groups, you name it. It is often the price you…
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Deep dive into the archival failures & lies of photojournalism's gatekeepers @magnumphotos.bsky.social & @worldpressphoto.bsky.social medium.com/@chiragwakas...
Stewards of Secrecy: Inside the Archival Failures of Photojournalism’s Gatekeepers
Part I: World Press Photo — A Crisis of Public Trust
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MathArt. Kaprekar number (sum of square split up is original number) & Harshad number (divisible by sum of it's digits) as Phyllotaxis. This is a physical convergence of mathematical theories & science of nature. Red (Harshad), Blue (Kaprekar), Green (Both), White (none). 9x12 Canson + POSCA
In postcolonial societies, “looking” is never neutral 📷 Photographer-curator Chirag Wakaskar & I talk about how to resist the colonial gaze & what it costs. Link ↓
Whose Lens Is It Anyway? Two Friends Talk Photography & Power
A conversation about the politics of the gaze and the quiet work of re-imagining how we picture the world.
tinyurl.com
1/2 As the Nanna Heitmann case shows,there is a significant lack of awareness in Western Europe and the US of Russian propaganda spread by Western media outlets, Russian opposition media, and the exiled opposition movement itself. Russian propagandists like this German photographer living in Moscow
New York Times Again Prints verbatim Russian propaganda
There’s a reason Russia didn’t just put out international arrest warrants for myself and other journalists who visited Kursk when Ukraine partially seized control of the region. It’s because they had ...
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Mumbai city elevation map that was generated by code in Python using elevation data and then plotted onto a transparency sheet using a CNC Pen Plotter and contact printed on mixed media paper coated with cyanotype chemicals.
Wrote on "Terror of war", disappearing embargo message and a Chilean President. @worldpressphoto.bsky.social medium.com/@chiragwakas...
An Autopsy of Accountability: World Press Photo’s Exercise in Institutional Obfuscation.
Shuttered Truths: The Allende Photo’s Unfinished Story.
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Changes DP to come across more friendly. Hope it works.
It is also an examplary story about how to lose the war on information. It shows how Western media are useful for ruzzian propagandists & media. After years of debates on the war on information and ruzzian state media @WorldPressPhoto offers the big stage to @tass_agency….
Patrick Enssle #NAFO@patrickenssle.bsky.social · last yr.Propaganda matters: The full story unrolled about the Kremlin photographer Mikhail Tereshchenko and the most questionable @worldpressphoto.bsky.social award ever. #nafo #ukraine #photography unrollnow.com/status/19073...
So that‘s what you mean by „stories that matter“? Helicopter journalism on a Russian propaganda platform by someone who called the fall of Bakhmut a „liberation“ … ? Really now? bsky.app/profile/civi...
Civil.ge @civil.ge · last yr.Georgian photojournalists say they are “disturbed” and “outraged” by World Press Photo’s decision to award Russian TASS photographer Mikhail Tereshchenko for his photo story capturing protests in Tbilisi.
By awarding photojournalist from an agency that is a propaganda arm of the state (the reason Getty & Reuters cut ties with TASS) WPP has betrayed its commitment to press freedom, legitimized state-controlled disinformation and compromised its own credibility as a champion of ethical photojournalism
World Press Photo@worldpressphoto.bsky.social · 2y agoThe independent jury judges entries anonymously – without names of photographers or outlets they work for. Photographers from all countries are allowed in the contest because there can be good work even in places with little press freedom. We write the captions for our website and exhibition.
Key dates on the evolution of anti homosexuality advocacy and online violence against LGBTQIA+ communities in Ethiopia: 1/
I'm pleased to exhibit a new body of work at the McCord-Stewart Museum next month. More information will be available soon.
I’ve been documenting the lives of queer Ethiopians & Eritreans, but finding a safe space to share these stories has been exhausting. I always have to turn replies off on IG, even though I’d love to engage more. And never even bothered to share on X. #BlueSky community, buckle up ✨
