Prime Numbers separated by digital roots. 9x12 Canson Black + POSCA markers. Generated in python, phyllotaxis form visualizes the prime numbers between 1-10000 (1229) #penplot #math

Deep dive into the archival failures & lies of photojournalism's gatekeepers @magnumphotos.bsky.social & @worldpressphoto.bsky.social medium.com/@chiragwakas...

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

7/ The friction over street dogs is the latest example. We don’t want animals. We don’t want vendors. We forgot about the falsay & its seller. We want a city without friction, without surprise— a sterile algorithm brought to life.

1/ Indian cities today want to become Le Corbusier’s fever dreams. Stacked cubes of glass and concrete. Tyrannies of straight lines. Do we want to live in Instagram grids—uniform & joyless? Here’s what we lose when we aspire to 🧵

In postcolonial societies, “looking” is never neutral 📷 Photographer-curator Chirag Wakaskar & I talk about how to resist the colonial gaze & what it costs. Link ↓

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

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...

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….

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...

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

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.

Where are the folks of photoland? I'm here now 🙏

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 ✨