Melbourne-based photographer Sudeep Lingamneni lets his Indian heritage, American upbringing and international 'citizenship' inform his work. Part Indian, part American and part Australian, Sudeep Lingamneni is the perfect example of the sort of 21st Century international citizen we are all rapidly becoming, effortlessly bridging dramatically different cultures as he seeks a greater truth through creativity.
Sudeep refers to himself both as "a boy name sue" and "a boy without a country", monikers that are not designed to make him sound cool, but that echo his position as one of society's exiles. Here is someone who slipped through the cracks of physical and notional borders, unexpectedly finding himself in no man's land.
Now a gifted and self-taught photographer, visual artist and music producer, Sudeep spent most of his adult life struggling to find a place to call home. It has been a long road to acceptance of his art and status for Sudeep, one he travelled harder than most.
"I understand collaboration is the key to progressive work. I seek out opportunities to work with organisations looking for fresh perspectives and compelling concepts. From individual talents through to nonprofit sectors to art, design and music labels, I'm eager to combine efforts with others in the spirit of presenting concrete ideas in the best possible way."
As a professional arts worker, I am passionate about the craft and artistry of my practice. Combining diverse storytelling skills from both visual media and music has enabled me to immerse myself in a variety of cultural contexts. This is the basis of my Community Cultural Development [CCD] practice.
By constantly questioning and challenging my skills and knowledge I am able to stay abreast of new forms of artistic and community practices and I have developed a flexibility that enables me to adapt to contemporary challenges in the field. Furthermore, this flexibility has led to engagements with numerous organisations, businesses, and cultural and community groups.
Personal Website: http://sudeeplingamneni.com
Company Website: http://ABoyNameSue.com
Company Blog: http://blog.aboynamesue.com
Company Website: http://MONOGLOSSIA.com
Company Blog: http://blog.monoglossia.com
Company Website: http://BABUISM.com
Company Blog: http://blog.babuism.com
Personal, Visual & Lyrical:
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?” - Mahatma Gandhi
Related: A Slide Towards Totalitarianism
Visual & Inspirational:
(List updated: June 3rd)
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Personal, Musical & Educational: We believe in free people, we are open to the idea that music can come from anywhere. We remain surprised and delighted by the music that people can make, and the fact that anyone can.
Maybe even on computers, recorders and controllers as the instruments.
In every #culture, in every corner of the #world, people make music and always have. The very essence of #music is that anyone can make it.
Personal, Lyrical & Inspirational:
Hi Sudeep -
Awesome! LOVE your sites, LOVE your photos. How cool!
No plans for photos in the books yet, but I just bookmarked your site to keep it in mind. Thanks so much for letting me know.
Thunderbird email carrier.
Personal, Visual & Educational: I don’t want photography to be the art form for those who can’t draw. Instead, I discovered what made photography a unique art form.
Our eyes tend to #generalise and #summarise what we see in a rapidly changing surrounding. The #camera doesn’t.
Improve your #photography by learning to #edit.
Related: A Photography Manifesto, Compassion: The Best Kept Secret, Up In Smoke, Life Photos: Sudeep Lingamneni and Introduction: Self Portrait Blog
Personal, Motivational & Inspirational: The art platform of photography consistently poses the question: “What’s MY STORY?” Photographing personal surroundings, documenting other lives and cultures in faraway lands, capturing stories on assignment, shooting wonderful culinary experiences, or taking masterful self portraits… The New York Photo Festival Summer Invitational 2013 wants to see your story.
The expert panel of judges will review the submissions and the top five vote-getters will receive $2500 in prizes and will be invited to exhibit this summer at the world-renowned POWERHOUSE Arena in Brooklyn, NY.
Photographers from all backgrounds and working in any number of photographic medium are encouraged to submit.
Submission deadline: MIDNIGHT, June 30, 2013
Submission fee:
$50 for 6 photos ($10 for each additional)
STUDENTS*: $35 for 6 photos ($7 for each additional)
No limit on number of images submitted.
*Students must have a valid ID (through the Spring 2013) semester in order to qualify for the student discount. Students must email proof of enrollment or ID to info@nyphotofestival.com prior to completing their submission.
Unfortunately, at the moment I can’t afford the submission fee : (
Personal, Lyrical & Inspirational:
Hi Sudeep
Thanks for your email. Your comments mean alot to me. Thank you. A friend suggested that I become a member of National Geographic and people from there have also said that my photos are nice - that tells me that I’m doing the right thing.
I take my camera with me everywhere I go now, just in case a photo opportunity arises.
Till next time.
God bless
Thunderbird email carrier.
Personal, Visual & Inspirational:
Paris Photo, an anthology selected by David Lynch and edited by Julien Frydman, is a personal record and guided tour of Paris Photo 2012 that showcases Lynch’s favourite photographs from the fair. What at first glance appears to be a overblown catalog of photos for sale is actually a smart collection of odd and wonderful photographs only Lynch could compile.
“This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.” - David Lynch
Lynch has gathered ninety-nine of his favourite photographs from Paris Photo 2012.
My personal favourite is a Black and White morbid, vast and empty landscape background with a barren railway track foreground somewhere, nowhere journey.
Paris Photo by David Lynch, by David Lynch & Julien Frydman, ed. Published by Steidl Publishing, 2013.
My ‘Lynchian’ filter produced the following photographic works.
“It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It’s better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it’s a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.” - David Lynch
The 17th edition of Paris Photo will be held from November 14 to 17, 2013. The world’s top Photography Fair will gather galleries and photobook specialists under the glass roof of the Grand Palais.
Visual, Educational & Motivational: Questions and answers.
After a decision to split the media conglomerate News Corporation into two companies - and the unveiling of 21st Century Fox’s logo - CEO of 21st Century Fox, Rupert Murdoch, recently debuted News Corp’s new logo.
Sudeep Lingamneni: What do you think of News Corp’s new logo?
James Murdoch: Well, it’s no worse than the original.
SL: Um, okay. Why isn’t Rupert Murdoch in jail?
JM: Well because he always has a get out of jail free card.
SL: Why aren’t you in jail?
JM: No, I can’t comment on that because I’m his son.
SL: What is a Monopoly?
JM: A situation in which a single company owns all or nearly all of the market for a given type of product or service.
SL: What is Freedom of information?
JM: Well, that would be the Fox News Channel. The
“dumbing down”
of news and introducing
“mindless vulgarity”
in place of genuine journalism, and having our own outlets produce news that serve our own political and financial agendas.
SL: Thank you! One last question. Can you give us some worldly advice?
JM: Think less, and will change the way you think.
Related: A Slide Towards Totalitarianism and ABoyNameSue: New Logo
Personal, Lyrical & Inspirational:
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, Deep!
You made me smile MAJOR wide just now. You don’t have to abate my missing ya with grand promises of visits to this hemisphere - although it’d be sweet to see them actually take place!
It’s good to hear from you sweetheart and learn you are doing your thing and keeping on.
Stay good.
Thunderbird email carrier.
Personal, Visual & Graphical: I found A by Justin Pervorse so inspirational, I’ve recycled and recontextualised his typography and illustration artwork into A Boy Name Sue Photography art deco poster, a playbill to fashion advertisement.
Typography and Illustration by Justin Pervorse
Graphic Design by BABUISM DESIGN
Personal, Visual & Motivational:
One photograph at a time. The revolution will be photographed. Photographers worldwide need and demand:
A manifesto written by Paul Melcher
Paul Melcher brings more than 19 years of experience in technology breakthrough and leadership roles for world-renowned photography agencies and was named by American Photo as one of the
“50 most influential individuals in American photography.”
Graphic Design by BABUISM DESIGN
Educational & Motivational: Australia’s government is under fire after it appears to have introduced web censorship without warning, expanding already-controversial powers to block access to child pornography into a wider web filtering system.
One of those sites that was blocked was that for the MFU, a non-profit organisations that runs talks and workshops about “radical equality” and other activist topics.
Melbourne Free University melbournefreeuniversity.org
“After persistent questioning, our local internet supplier reluctantly told us that the internet address of our website had been blocked by the ‘Australian Government’. Even more alarmingly, they said they were legally unable to ‘provide the details regarding who has blocked the IP or why’. Our first thought was, what have we done to draw the eye of the authorities? Who have we had speak at the MFU that might be on a blacklist? In that instant, we glimpsed the everyday reality of living under a totalitarian government.”
Remember to think, discuss and act!
Personal, Visual & Graphical: I’ve modified the Futura typeface to create a new logo:
In typography, Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed in 1927 by Paul Renner. Futura has an appearance of efficiency and forwardness. The typeface is derived from simple geometric forms (near-perfect circles, triangles and squares) and is based on strokes of near-even weight, which are low in contrast.
Logo Design by BABUISM DESIGN
Personal, Lyrical & Inspirational:
Hi,
Thank you for your submission to issue #59 (True/False). Decisions about what will be included in the issue will be made about a week before the issue goes online. If your work is chosen you will receive an email letting you know.
Thanks again!
Thunderbird email carrier.
Personal, Motivational & Inspirational: The call for entries for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2014 will open in October 2013 (See terms & conditions).
Follow them on Facebook for the latest information.
Unfortunately it will cost money to enter.
Personal, Visual & Educational:
About 10% of the general #population is supposed to have low self-esteem (#LSE). Perhaps the #percentage is higher among creative folks.
Often generated in early life, the condition can interfere with artistic growth and success, to say nothing of life itself. The difficult-to-shake problem can sometimes be traced back to a disapproving or critical parent. Early peer ridicule or teacher misguidance can also be fingered.
Personal, Visual & Inspirational:
#Sightseeing in #Patna, #India in a few hours!
Personal, Visual & Motivational: Are my photographs real?
True
or
False.
Is a documentary image or a portrait showing truth? Is a digitally altered image false or fiction or perhaps just a different way of communicating something true?
Related: Sue’s Tweet: I Highly Doubt It
Digital Art by BABUISM DESIGN
Personal, Visual & Motivational: More than 750 photographers submitted over 2400 photographs to be considered for inclusion. My photographs unfortunately did not make the cut.
Sure, keep doing what you’re doing. You never know when your time will come. It maybe a war of attention, just don’t take it to the grave. Grow, eat babies!
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” - Ayn Rand
Below is the list of the Fraction 50. Take some time to check out their work. Visit the artist’s websites. Spread the word.
The 50 photographers that were chosen are (in alphabetical order):
Group 1
David Emmit Adams, Sheri Lynn Behr, Lisa Blair, John Brooks, J Wesley Brown, Ksenia Burnasheva, Roman Coia, Rachel Cox, Matthew Crowther, D Bryon Darby, Ellie Davies, Marco del Pra, Odette England, Elizabeth Fleming, Alison Gibson, Harvey Hanig, Ryan Harding, Gabriela Herman, Thomas Homoloya, Jon Horvath, Erica Huffman, Kat Kiernan, Eliza Lamb, Richard Levy, Sean Litchfield
Group 2
Sara Macel, Janina McQuoid, Dafni Melidou, Irina Munteanu, Nathan Pearce, Emily Porter, Ibán Ramón Rodríguez, Deb Schwedhelm, Rachael Short, Annick Sjobakken, Vicky Slater, Shannon Smith, Sean Stewart, Jim Stone, Cody Swanson, Sonny Thakur, Brandon Thibodeaux, David Torrence, Kyle Tunney, Phil Underdown, Andrew M.K. Warren, Shen Wei, Brian Widdis, Thomas Wiedland, Rachel Wolfe