Tribes of Omo Valley: OZZO Photography

Here's a behind the scenes video of a trip to Southern Ethiopia by Icelandic photographer Oli Haukur and other team mates who visited...

Kiliii Fish: Native

I stumbled on the lovely  NATIVE project; sepia portraits of modern indigenous people photographed by Kiliii Fish in Alaska, Oregon and el...

Captain Tristram Speedy: Travel Photography At Bonhams

Why would I mention Bonhams, an auction house, on The Travel Photographer's blog? Well, it's because Bonhams is holding an auction ...

POV: The Facebook © Kerfuffle

I'm not a lawyer, but in my previous career incarnation I had to peruse, study and negotiate many complex legal documents...so the recen...

Antonio Gibotta: Holi

Photo © Antonio Gibotta-All Rights Reserved In contrast with the currently underway Pushkar fair whose authenticity is marred by its popular...

New! Unique! The Sufi Saints Of Rajasthan & Kashmir

I earned the reputation of planning, organizing and leading unusual " off the beaten path " photographic experiences, so I am part...

Piers Calvert: Amazonian Body Paint

Photo © Piers Calvert-All Rights Reserved " To realise the project I travelled solo with 45 kilos of camera equipment. All photos are s...

The Frame's Pushkar Fair

Photo © AP / Rajesh Kumar Singh-All Rights Reserved The Sacramento Bee's photo blog The Frame is featuring some 27 images of the Pushkar...

Carlos Duarte: Mali

Photo © Carlos Duarte-All Rights Reserved It's been a while I haven't featured photographic work of Mali, and Carlos Duarte 's w...

Sheila Rock: Sera, The Way Of The Tibetan Monk

Photo © Sheila Rock-All Rights Reserved The Sera monastery is near Mysore (India) and houses 5,000 Buddhist monks living in exile.  It's...

Incredible India (Director Cut)

I saw this a few days ago on Facebook. It's guaranteed to bring a smile to your faces, especially if you're an Indophile.  It's ...

The Travel Photographer's Sufi Saints Expedition-Workshop

I know...the wait is excruciating...but it'll be worth it. It's only a matter of days and details will be announced to my newsletter...

The Travel Photographer's Blog Gets A Facelift

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Yes, The Travel Photographer's Blog does seem different today. Following a coding issue that ...

The Travel Photographer's Hanoi iPhoneography

Stephen Mayes, a director at the VII photo agency, recently made a splash in the blogosphere with an interesting interview featured on WIRE...

American Tintype

American Tintype from Matt Morris Films on Vimeo . Checking in my Vimeo channel, I noticed this wonderful short documentary picked by its...

Chiaroscuro: The Power Of Light-Dark

On my Facebook page , I have already posted a few examples of chiaroscuro photographs that I made some time ago in Siem Reap and thought I...

Muhammad Fadli: The Wa People

Photo © Muhammad Fadli-All Rights Reserved I stumbled on the website of Muhammad Fadli , an Indonesian travel and documentary photographer, ...

Kuba Kaminski: The Whisperers

Photo © Kuba Kaminski-All Rights Reserved In remote northeastern Poland there lives a group of elderly Orthodox devotees who are said to pos...

POV: Is It Time For The Mamiya 645 (Again?)

I've been thinking about my Mamiya 645 film camera and its 80mm f2.8 Sekkor for some time. It's been stored in my closet for some 20...

The 8th Angkor Photo Festival

This wonderful  Angkor Photo Festival  will be held from December 1– 8, 2012 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. I know from first hand experience that ...

POV: Chutzpah or Clueless?

Photo © Tewfic el-Sawy-All Rights Reserved " Hi Tewfic,  As a photojournalist who specializes in the distinct cultures of Asia, Latin A...

The Travel Photographer's Hà Nội Streets (X Pro-1)

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved If there’s anywhere that lives life on the street, it’s Hanoi.  So here is a gallery of 12 monoch...

Election Day

"Vote For Obama" chalk graffiti on a sidewalk in SoHo.  

POV: I Just Couldn't Do It....

Photo Iwan Baan for New York Magazine I tried but my heart wasn't in it. It's that simple. It might surprise many of my readers and ...

POV: Much Ado About An Instagram Cover Photo?

"If there was still any debate about whether serious photojournalism can take place in the context of camera phones and cutesy retro fi...

Cedric Arnold: Yangon Awakening

Photo © Cedric Arnold-All Rights Reserved I'm really delighted to have stumbled on Newsweek's Picture Dept which features the lovel...

PerPower EZBoost

With lower Manhattan losing power, most of its residents had to walk north for at least 20 blocks from to recharge cell phones and laptops a...

James Whitlow Delano: Pattaya

Photo © James Whitlow Delano-All Rights Reserved "Why, if Thailand is so prosperous now, doesn’t sex tourism fade away?" -James Wh...