Alessandra Meniconzi: Nenets Of Arctic Siberia

Photo © Alessandra Meniconzi_All Rights Reserved “I prefer remote and rugged places, mountainous terrain and desert." Yes, Alessandra...

Foundry Photojournalism Workshop: My Multimedia Class: The Quick And Easy

I thought I'd post the description of the class I'll be teaching at the forthcoming Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in Chiang Mai ...

Fuji X-Pro1 Goes Globe Trotting

How could I have I missed this? Fujifilm and British luxury luggage manufacturer Globe-Trotter have joined forces to create an exclusive tr...

Chico Sanchez: The Dresser

Photo © Chico Sanchez-All Rights Reserved To break the recent string of India and Asia related posts, here is The Dresser , an audio slidesh...

POV: Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died (and in my view, also those who were wounded and maimed) while serving in th...

Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2012 Contest!!!

Eric Beecroft just circulated this amongst the instructors, so here is the fresh news! You can win ONE FULL FREE TUITION TO THIS YEAR'S ...

Sacbee's The Frame: Kevin Frayer's Urs Festival

Photo © Kevin Frayer-All Rights Reserved I've been waiting for coverage of this event! Just look at this flamboyant character!!! The Sac...

Anthony Pond: Ginger Godowns (Mattencherry)

Anthony Pond is certainly prolific. His multimedia piece Ginger Godowns is the fourth audio slideshow I feature on my blog, and the second ...

Elissa Bogos: Afghan Tea House Poets

"Let all the infidels become Muslims" Here's a wonderful short (too short!) video made by Elissa Bogos in a tea house in Afgh...

NYTimes: Moises Saman's Egypt's Choice

Presidential election fever has been gripping Egypt for months, and it'll perhaps come to a conclusion in the coming few days...or in an...

My Work: The Art of Kathakali

One of the highlights of my Oracles of Kerala Photo Expedition-Workshop this past March was spending half a day at a Kathakali school near ...

POV: Will QR Codes Be Useful?

I've been seeing these QR codes for some time now....some airlines offer them as an alternative to printed boarding passes, banks have t...

NYC's United We Dance Parade With The X Pro-1

All Photos ©2012 Tewfic El-Sawy ( Click To Enlarge ) Serendipity was the reason I stumbled on New York City's 6th Annual Dance Parade ye...

POV: TIME Magazine Cover Of Netanyahu

The drivel featured by TIME-Lightbox in relation to its magazine cover of Netanyahu is nausea-inducing on many levels. But let's stay...

8th Angkor Photo Workshops: Applications Open

The Angkor Photo Workshops is back for the 8th year, and has now announced that it is accepting applications. I can't emphasize strongl...

Gumroad: Selling For Photographers?

I saw a post about  Gumroad on Pixiq , and its premise piqued my interest, as it may do for my readers. Gumroad claims that it serves to de...

Sebastian Cortés: Backwaters India

Photo © Sebastian Cortes-All Rights Reserved You'll have to navigate Sebastian Cortés 's website a little bit to land on his Travel ...

POV: Bhutan...No More Shangri-La?

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Is Bhutan no longer the "Shangri-La"? I've traveled to Bhutan no less than 5 times ...

Diana Markosian: The Girls of Chechnya

Photo © Diana Markosian-All Rights Reserved An interesting glimpse in an area that a relatively few are really familiar with...Chechnya, was...

NYC's Hudson River Pageant With The Fujifilm X Pro-1

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy- (Click To Enlarge) Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy- (Click To Enlarge) Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy- (Click To Enlarge) Photo © Tew...

POV: The Best Marigold Hotel

Go see this movie!!!! No matter how old or young you are...you'll spend an enjoyable two hours in the company of world class actors...wi...

Ed Ou: Yemeni Camel Jumping

Photo © Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images (Courtesy The New York Times) I enjoyed Ed Ou's account in the LENS blog of The New York Times ...

POV: New Leica M-Monochrom...Is It Mmmmm?

Ah, well...the Twittering with the Leica hashtags was alight with news of THE event! The announcement that Leica would unveil a new model!! ...

Ayush Ranka; Koovagam (Hijra) Festival

Photo © Ayush Ranka- All Rights Reserved "Religious festivals in India are typically explosive affairs, but few pack the surreal pu...

POV: Swords Are Closer Than They Appear!

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy- All Rights Reserved I've been asked as to how close (or far) this particularly fierce looking and menacing Oracl...

Leica & Magnum: Chien-Chi Chang's Chinatown

Chien-Chi Chang's work in this short video is a singular treat because it'll appeal with many of the street photographers who find N...

The Travel Photographer's Warm Split Tone LR Preset

Photos © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved I've received a number of emails asking me how the toning of the still photographs of The Sp...

Suchet Suwanmongkol: Theyyam

Here's a short video trailer featuring Suchet Suwanmongkol who was recently in Kerala to document the ritual of Theyyam, amongst other ...

CameraBag2: Photo Editing

Photos © Tewfic El-Sawy - All Rights Reserved I chanced on the Camerabag2's website just yesterday, and thought I'd share it with m...

Lisa Wiltse: Daulatdia Brothel

Photo © Lisa Wiltse-All Rights Reserved In Bangladesh, on the banks of the Padma River, is the village of Dauladtia. It is here that the lar...

Leica M9 vs Fuji X Pro-1...Result!

JPEG #A FUJI X PRO-1   JPEG #  B  LEICA M9 Well, the results of the poll are correct! The results are (at the time of writing this post) 139...

My Work: The Spice People of Mattencherry

Here's a short audio slideshow which I produced in under an hour yesterday of some stills I made on Mattencherry's main street duri...

Naked Eye: Leica M9 vs FujiFilm X Pro-1

JPEG #A STRAIGHT OUT OF CAMERA   JPEG #  B  STRAIGHT OUT OF CAMERA JPEG #A   (AUTO FIX IN PHOTOSHOP) JPEG #B  (AUTO FIX IN PHOTOSHOP) Anothe...