Chico Sanchez | La Antigua's Easter Week

Photo © Chico Sanchez- All Rights Reserved La Antigua is a city with a UNESCO World Heritage Site appellation, and a city in central Guatema...

Irene Becker | Durbar Festival

Photo © Irene Becker-All Rights Reserved I haven't posted much travel/documentary photographic work of Africa (with the exception of Eth...

POV: A Problem For Traditional Photography?

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Recently published articles appearing in Poynter  and ...

Sam Barker | Omo Valley

Photo © Sam Barker -All Rights Reserved The followers and readers of my blog who are fans of Omo Valley photographs will rejoice in seeing S...

RØDE i16: 360º Surround Recording

I'm fascinated at how the iPhone is (and continues to be) an essential component in most photographers' arsenal of tools with new ac...

Back Story | The Caretaker of Wangdichholing

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved One of my favorite locations for photography in Bhutan is the Wangdichholing Palace in Jakar. No ...

Justin Mott | Travel

Photo © Justin Mott  -All Rights Reserved " I hate and love taking pictures of conical hats; it really depends on the day." - Just...

The Frame | Holi |The Widows

Photo ©  AP / Manish Swarup-All Rights Reserved Here's another installment of photographs from the Lathmar Holi and Holi festivals in Na...

Holi | Altaf Qadri | LA Times

Photo © Altaf Qadri- All Rights Reserved The colorful Holi festival is about to officially start in India on Wednesday, March 27 and I expec...

Dabbawala | The Perennial Plate

I would really love the opportunity of following one of these dabbawallas for a day ,  and documenting his journey with stills and audio! T...

Back Story | The Kendang Player

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Here's another digital "wet-plate" portrait which I've just added to my The Dig...

Sharon Johnson-Tennant | More Exhibitions

Sharon Johnson-Tennant , a multi-faceted award winning photographer in Los Angeles and a participant in my 2010 Tribes of Rajasthan & Gu...

Maarten Boerma | Myanmar

Photo © Martin Boerma-All Rights Reserved While viewing Maarten Boerma's galleries, I was reminded of wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic ...

Pind Daan In Baneshwar

An online conversation with photographer Cathy Scholl yesterday reminded me of one of my earlier audio-slideshows, which I had titled Pind ...

Sanjay Das | Hola Mohalla

Photo © Sanjay Das. All Rights Reserved I've been sitting on this post for a while now...mulling the right time to feature the wonderful...

Alex Potter | Ashura

Photo © Alex Potter-All Rights Reserved For a complete change of pace, I am featuring Ashura , a powerful photo essay by Alex Potter, a phot...

Dal Lake | Panidhar Revanur

I'm pleased to feature Venice of Asia (Dal Lake); a lovely video by Panidhar Revanur of the famous Dal Lake in Srinagar. The post is ti...

Back Story | The Kathputli Puppeteer

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved More of The Digital Wet Plates Kathputli is both a string puppet theatre, and a colony in New Del...

João Almeida | Myanmar

Photo © João Almeida -All Rights Reserved João Almeida appeared on my radar screen when he and Ruben Vicente held their Myanmar photo exhibi...

Adnan Abidi | Widows Refuge

Photo © Adnan Abidi-Courtesy Reuters Reuters' The Photographers Blog featured an article and and a photo slideshow of Adnan Abidi'...

Helen Rimell | The Houseboats of Srinagar

Photo © Helen Rimell-All Rights Reserved As my forthcoming photo expedition-workshop will include a few days in Srinagar, what better way to...

NPR | Lisa Ross' Sufi Shrines in China

Photo © Lisa Ross-Courtesy NPR Here's another Sufi-related blog post following the one of yesterday. It features the work of  Lisa Ross ...

Pierre Monégier | Sufi Night

I've been holding back on a number of Sufi-related posts, but thought the time has come to feature a short video of a Qawwali performanc...

In Focus | The Smithsonian 10th Annual Photo Contest

Photo © Teng Hin Khoo-All Rights Reserved Despite my self-imposed one week hiatus from posting, I thought I'd have fun and play the role...

Short Hiatus

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy I thought this image of a sleeping Buddhist monk near the entrance of the Chaukhtatgyi Pagoda in Yangon is appropriat...

POV | Whoa! Vimeo Goes "Instagramish"!

Is the whole visual world going Hipstamatic & Instagramish??? Vimeo, which in my view, is the best  video-sharing website available at ...

Back Story I The Rajasthani Gypsy

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Dinesh Khanna's statement (see my previous post) of " color is almost a language in Indi...

Dinesh Khanna | Kolkata

Photo © Dinesh Khanna-All Rights Reserved I am surprised that I haven't featured the work of Dinesh Khanna since my post in March 2007...

Denver Post | Victims of the Taliban

Photo © AP/ Muhammed Muheisen It shouldn't be any surprise to anyone following international news to realize that the real danger to Mus...

The Other Hundred

Here's an worthwhile open call for photographs from The Other Hundred , which is an initiative of the Hong Kong-based Global Institute f...

Jens Lennartsson | The 100 Days

Photo © Jens Lennartsson-All Rights Reserved Here's an extremely interesting and useful travel photography resource which ought to be bo...

Back Story | The Dzao Of Sa Pa

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved Here's the lastest addition to my Digital Wet Plates series of portraits. The main square in...