SAMSARA

Many are familiar with the breathtaking movie Baraka ... but now its film makers have produced Samsara . Samsara is the new non verbal docum...

Charlotte Rush Bailey: The WPGA Portraits Awards

Photo © Charlotte Rush-Bailey-All Rights Reserved A third-time participant in my photo-expeditions/workshops, Charlotte Rush-Bailey was jus...

Anthony Pond: Kathakali, The Story Dance

Anthony Pond is hardly a stranger to The Travel Photographer blog, as Kathakali, The Story Dance of Kerala is the newest one of his many au...

Luj Moarf: Thaipusam

The Hindu festival of Thaipusam is about faith, endurance, mortification and penance. In Malaysia, it's an intensely devotional event wh...

LGBT At The Pier (With The Fuji X Pro-1)

Having spent most of the late morning and early afternoon on Fifth Avenue photographing the Gay Pride Parade, I felt rather bored by the com...

My Interview on Auto de Fe Is On The Web

"Tewfic El-Sawy is a blogger, travel photographer and champion of increasingly popular photography expeditions. He talked to Auto de Fe...

BBC: TPOTY & The Royal Geographical Society (London)

Photo © Malgorzata Pioro-All Rights Reserved The BBC has featured an audio-slideshow of Travel Photographer of the Year 2011 photographs wh...

Kris Bailey: Red Rivulets (The Oracles of Kodungallur)

Apart from being an attorney in Northern California, Kris Bailey is a photographer who's keenly interested in South and South East Asia...

Kieran Doherty: Solstice (Druids & Pagans!)

Photo © Kieran Doherty-All Rights Reserved I really should've posted this yesterday... Kieran Doherty thought of me as he finished his n...

Auto De Fe & The Travel Photographer On The iPad

I am very pleased to appear as the first photographer for the In Focus feature in Auto de Fe 's magazine for the iPad. The feature carri...

Matthew Oldfield: Kecak!

Photo © Matthew Oldfield-All Rights Reserved " Kecak dance involves a chorus of chanting men dressed in checked cloth, who build a perc...

Christina Feldt: Travel Photography

Photo © Christina Feldt-All Rights Reserved "As far back as I can remember, I have been fascinated by other cultures, faces, customs an...

Rasha Yousif: At The Madrasa

As Rasha Yousif writes on her Vimeo page, Islam is the second-most practiced religion in India following Hinduism, while 24% of Kerala's...

Eric Kruszewski: Cuba

Photo © Eric Kruszewski-All Rights Reserved Eric Kruszewski's Cuba gallery made me yearn to revisit Cuba having been there on a week...

Rebecca Conway: Exorcising The Jinn

Photo © Rebecca Conway-All Rights Reserved Readers of my blog and others in the photography community know that I'm fascinated by the sy...

Setting Up The First 2013 Photo Expedition-Workshop!!

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy- All Rights Reserved I'm already planning and setting up the first Photo Expedition-Workshop for 2013 , and it pr...

New!!! The Travel Photographer's New Website

Well, as it was raining almost all day in New York City, I managed to finish the first phase of my new personal website  (www.telsawy.com). ...

Stephen Dupont: A Tale of Two Slums

Photo © Stephen Dupont-All Rights Reserved I really liked these two photographic essays of Polaroids made in the  Mumbai slum Dharavi and th...

POV: Have We Gone Over The Top?

Stanley Greene, in my view one of the best photojournalists in the business, just recently said  “I honestly believe photography is 75 perce...

"La Farniente" Or The Art Of Doing Nothing

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved I'm taking the weekend off from blogging, and enjoying the Hudson Valley. By Sunday afternoon...

Tahnia Roberts: Ngaben

Photo © Tahnia Roberts-All Rights Reserved Ngaben is the cremation ritual/ceremony performed in Bali to send the deceased to the next life....

Fuji X Pro-1: Shooting From The Hip/Vivid vs B&W

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved With this month's credit card statement settled, I...

Photoburst Goes Big (And Large)

I have blogged about  Photoburst , a travel photography daily contest, before...however its website was just revamped in a dramatic fashion,...

Christian Witkin: Ethiopia

Photo © Christian Witkin-All Rights Reserved "You can read people's faces, you can see how they treat themselves, what kind of li...

Working On Another Website

No post(s) today...nor perhaps tomorrow. I'm working on a new website (as if I needed another one!) for my photography which may see the...

New: One Image One Sound Stories

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved I am a member of Cowbird  which   describes itself as " ...a small community of storyteller...

Rasha Yousif: Katha'Kali And More

Photo © Rasha Yousif-All Rights Reserved As a photo expedition-workshop leader,  I very frequently see fantastic photographs by participants...