5 Amazing Photos That Soar With Joy

For fellow consumers of news imagery, the past several days have delivered a particularly grueling daily diet of disaster photographs. Toxic explosions, inner-city bombings, unfathomable photos of institutionalized slavery, heart-wrenching images of the millions of desperate, displaced fugitives of war battered me vicariously each day of the past week. To be sure, the brave photojournalists who put themselves on the front lines of atrocity and danger to focus the world’s attention all deserve our incredible gratitude and respect.


As an antithesis to this past week’s gruesome photographs, I’ve curated here a selection of images that jump off the page with joy. Practical considerations had me take a hiatus from this series for a couple of months, and I have decided to re-kindle it here with a conceptual rather than time-dated approach. I hope you enjoy these joyous photographs from image platforms around the world, and that they inspire you to seek and note small evidence of joy in your daily lives during the coming week.

Photograph by mwads10 published oin his Instagram account.
Photograph by Luccico published on his Instagram account

Published in Time Photo was taken on October 26, 2012
where U.S. President Barack Obama greets Nicholas Tamarin
outside the Oval Office in Washington, D.C

The photo was named Funny Face.

Published in Time photo was taken on March 17, 1973
where prisoner of war Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm was released and
greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California,
as he returns home from the Vietnam War

Visit Martha Chaudhry Photography page to find out more about Martha’s work.




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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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