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...

Michael Yamashita | Tea Road To Lhasa

Michael Yamashita of the National Geographic Magazine will share his images and stories from his newest publication, Shangri-La: Along the ...

Denver Post | India's Brass Bands

Photo © REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal- All Rights Reserved The photograph of the Indian brass band at the Kumbh Mela prompted a quick search on th...

Kevin WY Lee | Carnival of Life

Photo © Kevin WY Lee-All Rights Reserved In my previous post, I asked the somewhat rhetorical question as to what is real at the Kumbh Mela,...

POV: What Is Real At The Kumbh Mela?

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy If you're thinking...two POVs from The Travel Photographer in as many days is unusual, you'd be right....but ...

POV: Are Ethnic Props Ethical?

  Aaah! The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue is a big deal to some red-blooded males who wait for its publication with impatience...or so I...

How Hwee Young | Mongolian Shamans

Photo © How Hwee Young-All Rights Reserved Shamans are people (they can be of either gender) who are considered to have access to the world ...

In Focus | Rio's Carnival 2013

Photo © Felipe Dana/AP-All Rights Reserved In Focus, the photo blog of The Atlantic is on a roll. Following its featuring of the 2013 Sony W...

Mathias Braschler/Monika Fischer : The China Project

I noticed the work of Swiss photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer in the always-interesting The New York Times LENS blog (co-ed...

NYT: Worshipping At The Kumbh Mela

The New York Times is featuring a documentary movie on the Kumbh Mela, which is believed (and hyped) to be the largest religious gathering ...

Global Post | The Year Of The Snake

Photo © Hoang Dinh Nam - AFP/Getty Images 恭禧發財!!! The Year of the Snake starts from Feb. 10, 2013 and lasts to Jan. 30, 2014...and some Chi...

Roy Gunnels | Cairo's Al Muizz Street

Photo © Roy Gunnels-All Rights Reserved Almost every morning, I scour news websites for updated news on Egypt...my birth country that is exp...

In Focus: 2013 Sony World Photo Awards

© Ali Asadi, Iran, 2013 Sony World Photography Awards © Gali Tibbon, Israel, 2013 Sony World Photography Awards In Focus , the wonderful pho...

POV: The So 'God' Made A Farmer Advert

I have no interest whatsoever in American football, so I didn't watch the 2013 Super Bowl last Sunday...however I noticed how the media...

Foundry Photojournalism Workshop: Scholarships!!!

Readers of The Travel Photographer Blog must be well aware of the forthcoming Foundry Photojournalism Workshop which will be held in Sarajev...

Krister Halvars | Laos

Photo © Krister Halvars . All Rights Reserved Laos is another country which I haven't featured often on the pages of The Travel Photogra...

Bill Newsinger | Memory Twenty Two

This is a little gem. No, make that a large gem. Not only from an aesthetic standpoint, but because it made me (and I hope you) think out of...

Back Story | Widows of Varanasi

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy. All Rights Reserved Working on my new fetish.... The Digital Wet Plates ...is giving me the impetus to work on anoth...