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‘I wanted to show how colourful life can be’: Dikye Ariani’s best phone shot

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 19 October - 09:00

The Indonesian photographer created this beautiful vibrant image using models dressed in a rainbow of colours

‘Conceptual photography is just like making paintings,” Dikye Ariani says. “You come up with an idea in your imagination and then you work to bring your visualisation to life.” One morning in the rainy season of 2022, Ariani drove from her home in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta to neighbouring Bogor for an early shoot. Waiting for her at Lake Tamansari were the five women pictured, local talent hired to take part as models. For the next four hours, Ariani dressed the women, positioned them and various elements in the warm water, and climbed up and down a ladder with her phone. She took about 100 photographs from different angles.

“In the centre you can see a very common boat called a perahu mayang , and on the water, lotus flowers and enormous lily pads,” Ariani says. “I chose a rainbow of colours for the clothing to bring vibrancy to the image, and each woman is wearing a traditional bamboo hat.”

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The week around the world in 20 pictures

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 18 October - 19:03

The death of Yahya Sinwar, tributes to Liam Payne, Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas and the world twins festival: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

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Vanessa Bell’s mindful modernism, a landscape throuple, and climbing aboard the Hay Wain – the week in art

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 18 October - 11:00

JMW Turner faces off against fellow observers of nature, Constable is contextualised, and the Romani community are represented in textiles – all in your weekly dispatch

Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour
The subtle and sensitive paintings of this Bloomsbury Group stalwart prove modernist art doesn’t have to be explosive to be interesting.
• MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, from 19 October until 23 February

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‘It commemorates collective moments’: Radiohead through the eyes of Colin Greenwood

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 29 September - 09:00

Since 2003, the bassist has taken his camera to the studio and on stage to capture his bandmates at work. Now, a beautiful new book shares his intimate, delicate pictures of one of Britain’s best-loved groups

See a picture gallery of Colin Greenwood’s Radiohead photographs

The story of one of Britain’s biggest bands of the past 30 years didn’t begin with rowdy rehearsal rooms or rock’n’roll lore. It started with five school friends in drafty village halls in rural Oxfordshire, paying £1.50 per band member to the keeper of the keys, moving rubber crash mats and plywood chairs to set up their equipment. In barely more than a decade, they were headlining arenas and festivals.

The sweet story of Radiohead’s rise is documented in How to Disappear , a new book by bassist Colin Greenwood, big brother of guitarist Jonny and lifelong friend of singer Thom Yorke, guitarist Ed O’Brien and drummer Phil Selway. Ostensibly a photographic record of their working lives after 2003, when he started taking a camera with him into the studio and on stage, it also includes a beautifully written 10,000-word essay on the experiences they’ve shared.

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‘Every tree used to be blanketed with them’: photographer captures campaign to save monarch butterfly

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 29 September - 08:00

Climate change and pesticides have combined to pose a deadly threat to the vivid species. The Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards celebrate the fightback

Jaime Rojo has been following the fate of the monarch butterfly for more than 20 years. In the process the Spanish photographer has watched one of the planet’s most colourful, flamboyant insect species succumb to the combined onslaught of habitat destruction, climate change, pesticides, drought and wildfires. Its population has crashed in the process.

It is a dramatic, disturbing story that will be recognised next month when Rojo is given a highly commended award for his photojournalism at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London.

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The big picture: Consuelo Kanaga’s portrait of a young woman in the deep south, 1948

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 29 September - 06:00 · 1 minute

The photojournalist, a pioneer in portraiture of Black Americans, took this shot in Tennessee during the era of Jim Crow

Consuelo Kanaga took this picture of a young woman in Tennessee in 1948. Kanaga had by that time been working as a professional photographer for 33 years, having got her first job at the San Francisco Chronicle at the age of 21. She was a pioneer in portraiture of Black Americans, through the era of Jim Crow and into the civil rights movement, chronicling the Harlem Renaissance and the painfully slow loosening of segregation in the south.

This image is included in a new retrospective book of Kanaga’s work. The portrait of the young woman is typical of Kanaga’s handling of light; a gentleness learned living with families in the projects of San Francisco in the previous decade. The framing offers a visual reference to the art of silhouette, reserved for mostly elite – and white – profiles before the advent of photography. Kanaga presents a simple profile, but her eye dwells on the light and shade of her subject’s interiority with all the painterly care of an old master. The headband and the frilled collar and the eyes fixed – hopefully? resignedly? – toward an uncertain future post-second world war add to the effect. “Young is old in poor cultures,” Kanaga once said.

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Week in wildlife in pictures: Hampshire beaver babies, bubbly lizards and a shopaholic koala

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 20 September - 07:00

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

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Soaring spires and floods in Europe: photos of the day – Thursday

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 19 September - 14:08

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

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No hospital, no cars … and only three school pupils: life on a remote island – in pictures

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 19 September - 06:45

From crazed parties and LSD-laced bread to bike rides in blissful silence, the inhabitants of this isolated outpost in the Mediterranean have a uniquely strong social bond – as long as you don’t speak ill of the dolphins …