International Site Profiles: PIX

We're periodically posting short profiles that will collectively provide a starting point for an exploration of international blogs, online magazines, photography-based curation projects and pages.

Today we continue the series with a look at PIX.

THE BASICS
Site:  PIX
Location: India
Recommended sample post: Habitat
Frequency of posts: Theoretically a quarterly magazine, publishes less than that
Founded: February 2011
Last updated: February 2014
In a sentence:A broad overview of contemporary practice in India in print and in exhibitions.

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I came across PIX recently thanks to a post on photo magazines by Constantin Nimigean. It's a quarterly magazine which ties into physical exhibitions and seminars.

Each issue of the magazine, available as PDFs here, focuses on portfolios of images - accompanied by a statement - by roughly a dozen photographers pulled together by a shared theme. The majority of photographers represented are Indian or foreigners working in India. Guest writers preface each edition with texts on the issue's theme.

Projects represented tend towards documentary work made in India, but are definitely not limited to being so. Previous issues have branched out to cover photography from Iran and Pakistan as well.  

International Site Profiles: Aksgar Magazine

We're periodically posting short profiles that will collectively provide a starting point for an exploration of international blogs, online magazines, and pages.

Today we continue the series with a look at Aksgar Magazine.

THE BASICS
Site: Aksgar Magazine
Founder: Anil Cherukupalli
Location: India
Recommended sample post: My Uncle Tukka by Swastik Pal
Frequency of posts: Low, approximately one a month
Founded: September 2009
Last updated : November 2012
In a sentence: Aksgar is an online and print magazine that features narrative photography and multimedia projects from India and beyond.

Aksgar publishes occasional opinion articles and multimedia pieces, but the heart of the site project is publishing monthly narrative photo essays. The essays were originally mostly black and white, 35mm, and produced in India, but have moved onwards to include more color projects and more work produced outside of India.

Editing includes many international subculture projects (punks in Yangon, Indian dance bars, boxing gyms in Kenya, Tokyo brothels), road trip projects, personal narratives (a deaf and mute uncle, failed love, self-mutilation), and reportage (Haiti - Two Years After).

Aksgar is on Twitter and Facebook.

International Site Profiles: Galli Magazine

We're periodically posting short profiles that will collectively provide a starting point for an exploration of international blogs, online magazines, and pages.

We have looked at Kilele, We Take Pictures Too, Arab Image Foundation, Greater Middle East Photo, Space Cadet, Street Level Japan, Kantor Berita MES 56, Japan Exposures, Invisible Photographer Asia, my new notebook, oitzarisme, La Fototeca, ZoneZero, Panoramica Galerie, reminders: I WAS THERE, Asian Photography Blog, Black Man Ray, Perú Foto, foCo, and Revista Nuestra Mirada.

Today we continue with Galli Magazine.

THE BASICS
Site: Galli Magazine
Editor: Harsha Vadlamani
Location: Hyderabad, India
Recommended sample post: Inside Fractured Territories: Vivek Singh
Frequency of posts: Low - biweekly posts
Founded: August 2011
Last updated : September 2012
In a sentence: An online space dedicated to showcasing the best of photojournalism and documentary photography from India.

Every two weeks Galli publishes a portfolio of roughly 10-20 images with a desciption of the work written by the photographer and a short biography. The work is all made in India, although Galli does not restrict itself necessarily to Indian photographers. Galli also has a map page which provides a geographic format for exploring published work.

The site was invited to be a nominator for the Prix Pictet prize 2012 and was recently featured in PHOTO Magazine, France as the first site for photojournalism from India.

Galli Magazine can be found on Facebook and Twitter.