Dang Ke Cuong: Hoi An

Photo © Dang Ke Cuong-All Rights Reserved I thought I'd feature the work of Hoi An based photographer Dang Ke Cuong , who specializes in...

Catru: A Vietnamese Musical Tradition

I had never heard of Catru before, but I happened to find a brochure about it in the wonderful Golden Silk Boutique Hotel, whose location an...

The Portraitist Of Hang Ngang Street

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy Little excites me more than walking the streets of a crowded and vibrant city like Hanoi, and meeting people with sto...

In Sapa...Or Is It Sa Pa?

After a somewhat restless night spent on the Victoria Hotel Express Train from Hanoi to Lao Cai, we are now in Sa Pa...the launching hub for...

In Hue....Day Two

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Having driven from Da Nang to Hue yesterday, I noticed a Cao Đài temple close to our hotel. I had...

In Hoi An...Day Two

Photo © tewfic el-sawy Having woken up really early in the hopes of catching the fishermen  hauling their catch did not make any difference,...

In Hoi An....

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Immediately upon arriving in Hoi An, we had a walk-about in the center of this historic small tow...

In Hanoi...Third Day

By midday today, the workshop group had all arrived and had met in the Golden Silk Boutique Hotel's lobby.  For a couple of hours, I des...

In Hanoi...Second Day

Instagram Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy By mid morning, three of the 8 workshop participants are already in Hanoi, and have already started to fami...

In Hanoi....!!

 After a long flight on Malaysian Airlines (excellent service, brand new aircraft, etc), and connecting from Kuala Lumpur, I landed in Hanoi...

Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2013: Sarajevo!

Eric Beecroft, the co-founder of the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop , has just announced the tentative dates for the 2013 workshop which i...

The Travel Photographer's On His Way To Hanoi

I'm on my way to Hanoi to start my Vietnam: North Of The 16th Parallel Photo Expedition/Workshop . During the coming two weeks, my posts...

Cedric Arnold: Sacred Ink

Photo © Cedric Arnold-All Rights Reserved Having just spent some 10 days in Chiang Mai, I'm glad to have found Sacred Ink , the impressi...

Thumb Rests For The Fuji X Pro-1

Back in April 2011, I was getting used to the ergonomics of my then-new Leica M9 and found that it needed an add-on in the form of the extre...

New Fujifilm X-E1

Fujifilm has just announced the new X-E1 mirrorless camera, which is a smaller sibling to the successful X Pro-1. It features the same 16.3...

Vietnam Is Next....

In under 10 days, I'll be once again back in South East Asia...this time in Hanoi, to lead another of my photo trips Vietnam: North Of T...

KL Photo.BOM: Asia By Asians

One of The Travel Photographer blog's objectives has always been to provide a modest platform to further the exposure of emerging travel...

Ed Peters: Beyond The Indus

Photo © Ed Peters-All Rights Reserved "It’s the challenge of capturing the texture of life, created by these contradictory elements, ...

Victoria Alexander: The Gurukul Newspaper

"I’m happiest with a camera in my hand, photography keeps me fresh, when creating or making something, anything, a home, cooking or wr...