International Site Profiles: Exposure 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 Indonesia-based Exposure Magazine.

THE BASICS
Site:  Exposure Magazine
Location: Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Publisher: Kristupa Saragih
Recommended sample post: Exposure 57th Edition
Frequency of posts: monthly
Founded: 2008
Last updated: April 2013
In a sentence: Exposure is an English-language regional photography magazine based in Southeast Asia published monthly as a free download.

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Exposure exists both as a site and as a free downloadable magazine. The site itself largely consists of tech reviews and event information; the magazine also features a lot of material along those lines but also includes photography projects from the region and beyond. Editing follows in the lines of National Geographic-style documentary and news projects, as well as work that would be more comfortably considered in an art context.

The site caters to hobbyists and amateurs in addition to professionals; the point of entry and interest for most readers of this site I imagine would be to download the magazine and look for the photography project features.

They accept submissions.

Exposure Magazine can be found on Twitter.

International Site Profiles: sidewalkers.asia

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 sidewalkers.asia.

THE BASICS
Site:  sidewalkers.asia
Location: Indonesia
Recommended sample post: Hitam Putih
Frequency of posts: High, approximately 15 a month
Founded: October 2012
Last updated : December 2012
In a sentence: sidewalkers.asia is a new site that features traditional street photography from Indonesia.

sidewalkers.asia has a straightforward format, running single images several times a week of street photographs made in Indonesia. Image curation stays very close to traditional street practice. The strength of the images selected varies widely. Text is is Indonesian, but there's very little text on the pages; the site is entirely focused on the images.

International Site Profiles: Black Man Ray

We're posting a series of short profiles that will collectively provide a starting point for an exploration of international blogs, online magazines, and pages. We began by looking 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, and Asian Photography Blog.

Today we continue with a look at Black Man Ray.

THE BASICS
Site: Black Man Ray
Founding Publishers: Eric Setiawan, Budi Sukmana, and Dicky Jiang
Location:  Bandung, Indonesia
Recommended sample post: Mitsu Maeda: On the Land of Northern Lights
Frequency of posts: Low, 1-4 a month
Founded: January 2011
Last updated: March 2012
In a sentence: Portfolios and interviews, largely with contemporary documentary and fine art photographers in Asia or from Asia.

Black Man Ray's blog presents photographers through portfolio presentations with a biography and link to the photographer's site, as well as occasional interviews and event announcements. Almost all photographers featured have a connection to Greater Asia - they work in or are from Asia.

Black Man Ray is also a gallery space in Bandung, Indonesia that hosts photography workshops.

Black Man Ray can be found on Facebook and on Twitter.

International Site Profiles: Kantor Berita MES 56

In an opinion piece on the limitations of access to crowdfunding projects, we made an argument for taking the initiative to explore sites that promote photographers from countries and cultures less frequently seen.

We're following that post with a series of short profiles that will collectively provide a starting point for an exploration of international blogs, online magazines, and pages. We began by looking at Kilele, We Take Pictures Too, Arab Image Foundation, Greater Middle East Photo, Space Cadet, and Street Level Japan. Today we continue with Indonesia-based Kantor Berita MES 56.

Kantor Berita MES 56 is the online magazine of Ruang MES 56, a non-profit institution established in 2002 that emphasizes exploratory theoretical and practical approaches to contemporary photography in Indonesia. It aims to develop contemporary discourse in the country. In addition to running a blog, MES 56 is a multi-dimensional project that includes exhibitions, workshops, and presentations.

Kantor Berita MES 56 was born of a concern for showing how extensively and rapidly contemporary photography is evolving, especially in Indonesia. Articles are infrequent, but the archives stretch back to 2009. The site balances images with commentary in both English and Indonesian (which Google translator does a good job with).  Kantor Berita MES 56 publishes interviews, portfolios, exhibition reviews, and book reviews. The post Indonesian Wedding Photography Ritual is an example of the site at its best. Kantor Berita MES 56 has been updated as recently as October of last year.

MES 56 can be followed on Twitter and on Facebook.

International Site Profiles: We Take Pictures Too

In an opinion piece posted last week on the limitations of access to crowdfunding projects, we made an argument for taking the initiative to explore sites that promote photographers from countries and cultures less frequently seen. We're following that post with a series of short profiles that will collectively provide a starting point for this exploration of international blogs, online magazines and pages. We began on Tuesday with suggesting a look at Kilele. Today we're following with We Take Pictures Too.

Like Kilele, We Take Pictures Too is a Tumblr page. Created in January 2011, it focuses on images made by contemporary Indonesian photographers. It was last updated in December - we hope the page will continue to grow. In the meantime, the site's archive hosts around 150 images with site links provided for each photographer. An "Ask Me Anything" page allows readers a way to send questions.

On the "Links & Blogrolls" page on the personal site of Kurniadi Widodo, the creator of We Take Pictures Too, there is a list of many additional photographer sites and blogs to explore. Kurniadi Widodo can be followed on Twitter here.