POV: The Travel Photographer Looks Back At 2011

I thought of ending 2011 with various "look-backs" and favorites that appeared on The Travel Photographer's blog. 1. Photo Exp...

Enric Mestres Illamola: India

Enric Mestres Illamola is a Catalan photographer specialized in portraits, wedding photography and is a photography teacher in various scho...

Sandy Chandler: Videos & Book...Kolkata & Durga Puja

Sandy Chandler has been busy the past few months. No, make that real busy. She participated in my Kolkata's Cult of Durga Photo~Expediti...

Evgenia Arbugaeva: Following The Reindeer

Photo © Evgenia Arbugaeva-All Rights Reserved I think featuring Evgenia Arbugaeva's photo essay Following The Reindeer is timely in vie...

Merry Xmas And Happy 2012!!!

(Click To Enlarge) I wish a merry Xmas, and happy holidays to all my friends, blog readers, Google and Twitter followers...as well as to som...

The Travel Photographer's On The Lightbox App

I am pleased to have The Travel Photographer's blog featured on LIGHTBOX , the new and beautifully designed social photo app for Android...

The Ashaninka: Mike Goldwater

Photo © Mike Goldwater-All Rights Reserved In Focus, the photo blog of The Atlantic magazine, featured The Ashaninka, A Threatened Way of Li...

Xavier Zimbardo: Holi!

I first came across the work of Xavier Zimbardo a number of years ago when I bought his book India Holy Song, whose description on a book-se...

National Geographic Photo Contest 2011

Photo © Tsolmon Naidandorj-All Rights Reseved Despite my antipathy for photography contests, I always keep an eye on two; TPOTY (The Travel ...

Mario Gerth: East African Faces

Mario Gerth traveled to 65 countries on five continents and witnessed all kinds of civil upheavals. A German part-time banker and photojour...

The Afghan Box Camera Project

Photo Courtesy The Afghan Box Camera I was very glad to have stumbled on The Afghan Camera Box Project website a few days ago. For quite a ...

Poll: Which Cover Is Best?

Which Cover Should I Use For My Forthcoming Book On Kolkata? Top Image  Bottom Image     pollcode.com free polls   I am thinking of self-pub...

Tascam DR-40 In Santa's Bag

Having received Santa's approval, I walked into B&H the other day (by the way, it was packed...as in really crowded. The line for th...

Paolo Patrizi: Ha Noi

Photo © Paolo Patrizi-All Rights Reserved "a relic of the many lives of a magical city, steeped in beauty and seductive charm." An...

Pete Muller: TIME's Best Wires' Photographer

Photo © Pete Muller-All Rights Reserved It's no surprise to me that the editors of TIME magazine have chosen Pete Muller as  the best ph...

The Frame: The Virgin Of Guadalupe

Photo © Anita Baca-All Rights Reserved Did I realize that the church of Our Lady of Guadalupe on 14th Street (not far from where I live in N...

Kolkata's The Cult of Durga

My main project that came to be from the Kolkata's Cult of Durga Photo~Expedition & Workshop™ which I led and organized is The Cult...

POV: Color or Monochrome?

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved I've meaning to address this question for a while ...

Travel Photographer Of The Year (TPOTY) 2011

Photo © Louis Montrose-All Rights Reserved The annual (and impatiently awaited) Travel Photographer Of The Year competition results have be...

The Travel Photographer In Asian Geographic Passport

"It is at these religious events that one connects with humanity at its basic denominator, and with the nobility of the human spirit....

Jaime Ocampo-Rangel: Memory Of Colors

Photos © Jaime Ocampo-Rangel- All Rights Reserved "I dreamt of a rainbow built with the colours of men, tribes, cultures. The rainbow o...

POV: TTP Scarf: Missed Business Opportunity?

While in Siem Reap, I dropped by the Old Market and stocked up on traditional Khmer scarves with the intention of having them embroidered wi...

Brenden Allen: Mandalay To Mytikina

Photo © Brenden Allen-All Rights Reserved Since Myanmar is all in the news, with Aung San Suu Kyi meeting with Hillary Clinton during her of...

Aditya Kapoor: As They Are

Photo © Aditya Kapoor-All Rights Reserved I met Aditya Kapoor at the Delhi Photo Festival in October where he asked me astute questions reg...

The Travel Photographer's Best of 2011

Most of the big picture blogs and news outlets such as The WSJ Photo Journal, Boston's Globe's The Big Picture, The Denver Post'...

Venice By FKY

For a complete change of pace this Sunday, I feature a wonderful short movie on Venice produced by FKY, presumably a French videographer fro...

POV: Encore Angkor?

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved As readers of this blog know, I recently traveled to Siem Reap in order to attend the Angkor Phot...

Ed Ou: The Egyptian Youth

Photo © Ed Ou-All Rights Reserved The news that "Islamists" seem to have won a majority in Egypt's first Parliament since the ...