Cheryl Dunn: 'Everybody Street'

Cheryl Dunn is a photographer and the director of "Everybody Street", a feature documentary on well-known NYC street photographer...

Tony Smith: Kolkata's Cult of Durga

Photo © Tony Smith-All Rights Reserved Photo © Tony Smith-All Rights Reserved Photo © Tony Smith-All Rights Reserved One of the first thing ...

New! Panasonic Lumix GX1?

As readers of this blog know, I'm a fan of Micro Four Thirds cameras, especially the Panasonic GF1 which I use a my 'walk-about'...

Chico Sanchez: Mexico & Saints

I am pleased that Chico Sanchez (whose work has been featured on this blog many times) has now self-published a book of his wonderful photog...

PLANET Magazine: Global Travel Photo Contest

PLANET Magazine has announced its 4th annual Global Travel Photo Contest , which is  divided into two categories; General Travel and Portrai...

Kolkata's Cult of Durga: Verdict & Epilogue

Photo © 2011 Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved I wanted to write this post earlier, but I needed intervening time to be more objective and ...

Dilla Djalil Daniel: Myanmar

Photo © Dilla Djalil-Daniel- All Rights Reserved Photo © Dilla Djalil-Daniel- All Rights Reserved Photo © Dilla Djalil-Daniel- All Rights Re...

Enrico Martino: Dia De Los Muertos

Time flies, and it's this time of year...once again! Observed on November 1st and 2nd, the Dia de Los Muertos is around the corner. Fami...

Ethan Knight: Faith

Photo © Ethan Knight-All Rights Reserved Ethan Knight is a documentary photographer and a film maker whose work focuses on the impact of wa...

Zara Bowmar: Kolkata's Pandal Mania

Zara Bowmar is one of the participants in my Kolkata's Cult of Durga Photo Expedition/Workshop, and produced a remarkably compelling doc...

Jehad Nga: Cairo Corners

Photo © Jehad Nga-All Rights Reserved One of my favorite photographers is Jehad Nga, and I've featured his work on many occasions on The...

Time LightBox: Xavier Comas' The Rumoh Raja

Photo © Xavier Comas- Courtesy TIME Lightbox LightBox, TIME’s photo department's blog, is really one of my top photo destinations almost...

Angkor Photo Festival: Updated Website

The Angkor Photo Festival website's just announced facelift is quite substantial, so have a look at the 2011 schedule of events and you...

David Lazar: Myanmar Redux

Photo © David Lazar-All Rights Reserved I featured David Lazar's work on The Travel Photographer blog a few months, and having learned t...

Aujin Rew: Cuba

Photo © Aujin Rew-All Rights Reserved Born and raised in South Korea, Aujin Rew is a freelance photographer based in Singapore. Having stud...

Carsten Bockermann: The Sunderbans

Photo © Carsten Bockermann-All Rights Reserved Carsten Bockermann is a German photographer who specializes in photographing everyday life in...

Canon EOS 1-DX Is Launched

Canon just launched the EOS-1DX, a digital SLR with a full-frame sensor. It's Canon’s new flagship professional DSLR, and boasts an 18MP...

Al Jazeera Documents Mustang

Tibetan Buddhism still survives intact in Upper Mustang - a once forbidden kingdom high in the Nepalese Himalayas. Here is Al Jazeera's ...

The Indian Express Features The Travel Photographer

Piyasree Dasgupta, Senior Correspondent at The Indian Express newspaper, interviewed me for an article she titled Visual Documents Of Cultur...

The "Gamsha"...Yet Another Scarf Fetish

Well, I'll be at the Delhi Photo Festival for most of the day, reviewing photographers' portfolios, and then presenting a seminar I...

Kolkata's Tramways

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved For our final day on the my Kolkata's Cult of Durga Photo Expedition/Workshop , we rode one o...

Kolkata's Cult of Durga In The Hindustan Times!!

Our workshop is prime news in Kolkata this morning!!! I was initially interviewed by the delightful Debarati Chakraborty of the Hindustan Ti...

Kolkata's Cult of Durga: Rickshaw Bell

This may only happen in India. Walking in the center of Kolkata, I photographed a number of rickshaw pullers for a planned multimedia projec...

Kolkata's Cult of Durga: Lakshmi Puja

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Having spent most of the morning (and part of the late...

Kolkata's Cult of Durga: The Puja Is Over...

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy- All Rights Reserved As per the planned schedule, the Kolkata's Cult of Durga Photo Expedition/Workshop complete...

Kolkata's Cult of Durga: The Immersion Of Durga

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy- All Rights Reserved There's little doubt that today's day-long photo shoot was one of the most exhausting I...

Kolkata's Cult of Durga: The Bauls, Mystic Minstrels

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy- All Rights Reserved One of the high notes planned (or rather hoped for) for the Kolkata's Cult of Durga Photo Ex...

Kolkata's Cult of Durga: Flower Market & Interviews

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Our game plane this morning was to visit the famous flower market in Kolkata, near (and under) th...

Kolkata's Cult of Durga: The Dhakis

Photo © Tewfc El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Braving a sweltering morning sun, and an accompanying humidity, we drove to Sealdah train station ...