5 Amazing Photos Of The Week Part 2

What a wondrous thing and a marvelous privilege it is to create for people glimpses of themselves.


I have loved being a photographer for the past nearly two decades: a second career that I never anticipated that began with darkroom alchemy and continued with digital magic. My journey with images is a mirror not only of me and my experiences, but of the hundreds and thousands whom I’ve had the joy of working with and photographing.

Projection, deflection, adornment, posturing– these human responses take me into my clients, beyond smiling for the camera, and help me to ‘unpack’ the real people I work with. It is the invitation and the earned capacity to see through the lens into the person that makes this job such a pleasure.

The images in this week’s selection grab me for many reasons, not least for their messages of projection, deflection, adornment, and posturing. The image of the woman with her ‘reborn’ babies moves me in particular. As a mother, an adoptive mother, and a photographer of families– the existence of her chosen sub-culture gives me long pause for thought.

Enjoy the photos and the weekend!

Published on Beautifuldecay.  Photos by Davis Ayer

Published on Nytimes Shot by Aline Smithson



Published on The Guardian Shot by  Niranjan Shrestha/AP

Published on Nytimes photos by Rebecca Martinez

Published by CNN photo by Vlad Sokhin

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Martha Chaudhry

Martha’s portrait photographs and family art commissions have won accolades and multiple awards. Twenty years a commercial photographer in the Asia Pacific, her contemporary approach to business and family photography is rooted in storytelling and sought by clients throughout the region. As an artist, Martha’s raw material is mined from the existing global archive of images. Her most recent work explores the 1896 early photographs that illustrate the first edition of the International Cloud Atlas. Martha combines her skills in photography and fine art practice to create custom works of family fine art for clients incorporating their own photographic archives meaninfully into the work. Beyond family portraiture, these pieces interweave the journeys and vital stories of families or business entities, resulting in showpieces of deeply meaningful and personal nature. On these commissioned works, Martha collaborates with others in the creative industry on design and installation, to ensure a gallery-worthy art piece that assumes pride of place in a home or office. Martha holds a Master of Fine Arts (MAFA) from LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore (Goldsmith’s London), holds licentiate qualifications with the Master Photographer’s Association (MPA) in the U.K., and trained as a photographer in the US, UK, Canada, Spain and Singapore. Her studio Martha Chaudhry Photography was founded in 1997. Martha has participated in many group exhibitions in Singapore, China and Hong Kong over the past twenty years. Martha believes her talents and work can be harnessed to assist others, and bring awareness to issues of social justice. Over the years she has used her professional skills to accomplish deep work in Cambodia in particular, as well as Singapore and Pakistan. In 2011 Martha was featured in Channel NewsAsia’s documentary series Asia Exposed 2, where her portrait and storytelling skills were employed to draw attention to the travesty of child sex trafficking in southeast Asia.

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