Chirag Wakaskar
chiragwakaskar.bsky.social
Chirag Wakaskar
@chiragwakaskar.bsky.social
Photographer in decline. Human being in failure.
Disappointing.
September 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
How do you justify platforming someone accused of sexual harassment in the 70th year anniversary exhibit? Their name offers prominently in your own blog.

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September 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
How can you justify handing over curation to someone who heads @magnumphotos who continue to sell exploitation of vulnerable women from the global south as some sort of art? Disappointing.
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Insomnia • Antoine d'Agata • Magnum Photos Magnum Photos
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September 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Heitmann, Magnum, NYTimes & world press photo have laundered Kremlin propaganda.
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Awarding the Oppressor: The Ethical Collapse of World Press Photo Contest 2025
On September 4, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the indictment of two employees of RT, the Russian state-controlled media…
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September 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Makes me miss falsa so much!! Childhood memories of falsa seller peddling through the small lanes singing "Sridevi tasted falsa" "Amitabh eaten falsa"
August 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The friction over street dogs is the latest example.
We don’t want animals. We don’t want vendors.
We forgot about the falsay & its seller.

We want a city without friction, without surprise—
a sterile algorithm brought to life.
August 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Thank you for helping me share some thoughts on photography.
August 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Why not empower a local photographer from Nepal to tell their story rather than relying on a Western outsider whose lens is shaped by distance, privilege and the extractive logic of parachute journalism?
August 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Is this a render based on NASA LRO? CNSA doesn't really have anything about it in the release. www.cnsa.gov.cn/english/n646...
China's Chang'e-6 sheds first light on evolution history of moon's far side
www.cnsa.gov.cn
July 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It is propaganda. Heitmann could not have been in that space without Kremlin's explicit authorization. Also WPP awarded her even though her submitted caption mismatched nytimes - she had submitted "Ukranian conscript" - nyt had Russian soldier till 4th April 2025.
April 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Indeed, by championing a narrative that selectively omits state violence while glorifying its repercussions @worldpressphoto not only has abdicated journalistic integrity but also transformed their platform into a willing accomplice in the dissemination of Kremlin-sanctioned revisionism.
April 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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So that‘s what you mean by „stories that matter“? Helicopter journalism on a Russian propaganda platform by someone who called the fall of Bakhmut a „liberation“ … ? Really now?
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Georgian photojournalists say they are “disturbed” and “outraged” by World Press Photo’s decision to award Russian TASS photographer Mikhail Tereshchenko for his photo story capturing protests in Tbilisi.
Georgian Photojournalists Slam World Press Photo for Awarding Russian TASS Reporter for Tbilisi Protest Coverage - Civil Georgia
Georgian photojournalists and documentary photographers stated they are "disturbed" and "outraged" b
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April 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Your invocation of fairness and rigour collapses under the weight of grotesque hypocrisy by legitimising a TASS propagandist, you not only erode the moral foundation of your institution but actively launder state propaganda through the veneer of journalistic excellence.
April 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM