Filtering New Ways: World’s first modular filter by H&Y

Hong-kong based H&Y company has announced the Revoring Swift System, which is claimed to be the world's first magnetic modular filter system developed for professional cameras. The design is featuring a magnetic 'clip-on' design that permits users to change a square filter on a lens within seconds at an ease. This allows the photographers and videographers to rapidly change the filters and take the shot as desired without missing any details. Also, the same filters could be used with different lenses by using magnetic adapters, which will significantly reduce the cost and saves the space for carrying multiple filters.

The making of a nation, through Sunil Janah’s eyes

After Sunil Janah moved to the US in his later days, these prints were mostly forgotten. Rahman says it is by another coincidence that they landed in India as a collector managed to buy some of them. “The timing of the exhibition coincides with the 75th anniversary of Independence. At a time when the BJP is trying to demolish Nehru’s legacy and spreading the narrative of ‘Make In India’, Janah’s works assume significance as the ‘Make In India’ started in the 1950s. That is why it is so important that people see these pictures. We should not forget this history and the BJP is trying to make us forget it.” Apart from their historical significance, these are stunning images, says Rahman. “That was a time of great hope. Now, we have a different view about industries. We perceive industries as polluting, but at that time we needed all these factories because we needed indigenous manufacturing. Also, they provided jobs to lakhs of people, particularly in backward areas. There was a great positive energy which actually can be felt in Janah’s photographs.”

Cuba by Raúl Cañibano

Raúl Cañibano Ercilla is based in Havana. He was born in 1961. One of the younger generation of photographers born after the Revolution, his work focuses on people, everyday life, history and socialism. He has exhibited world-wide and won a major prize in Cuba for a project on the life of rural workers. 

Untitled by Emil Gataullin

Emil Gataullin, born in 1972, is a Russian photographer, based in Korolyov, Moscow Region, Russia. In 1999 he graduated from Moscow Surikov Institute of Art, majoring in monumental painting. He studied photography with one of the leading Russian photography ideologists and authors, Alexander Lapin, from 2003 to 2004.

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