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 ...