Bhutan: Land of Druk Yul

Photograph © Tewfic El-SawyI will be on my Land of the Druk Yul photo expedition from September 28 to October 18. A few days in London, then on to Bangkok where I meet the expedition's participants, then we fly off to Paro on Druk Air in the wee hours of October 3.I have yet to pack all my photo gear, make sure that whatever needs it is recharged and in working order, and figure...

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NGS+ liveBooks: All Roads Film Festival

All Roads is a National Geographic initiative supporting films by and about indigenous groups and under-represented minority culture filmmakers. The festival is a multimedia event comprised of cutting-edge film, videos, live music, photography, and art from cultures around the world. One of the facets of the initiative is the Photography competition which honors four photographers...

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Multimedia Muse

Three anonymous photographers created Multimedia Muse, a website that aims to rectify the substandard showcasing of multimedia by news websites, and that seeks to increase the "clickability" factor of multimedia projects. Here's wishing them lots of lu...

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Photo~Expedition: Theyyams of Malabar

Having forgotten that I would have little time to blog while on my Land of the Druk Yul photo-expedition to Bhutan in a few days, and even less time to properly announce my first photo-expedition of 2009, I decided to do so today!The Theyyams of Malabar photo-expedition is specifically structured and timed to allow its members to photograph and document the most spectacular ritualistic...

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Alixandra Fazzina: Childbirth Perils

Photograph © Alixandra Fazzina/TIMETIME magazine features a 14-picture essay on the perils of childbearing in Afghanistan. Photographer Alixandra Fazzina traveled to Badakhshan, where a harsh landscape and lack of infrastructure have given rise to an astonishingly high rate of deaths during childbirth. In this far flung area of Afghanistan, for every 100,000 babies born, 6,500...

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India: Theyyam

Photograph © REUTERS/Sivaram V.The Boston Globe's The Big Picture blog has just posted 34 wonderful photographs from all around India. Many are of everyday life in this amazing country, and some are of unique festivals such as Theyyam, Ganesh Chaturthi, and Pulikali.Sharp-eyed readers of this blog may wonder why I've posted two photographs of a Theyyam dancer today (scroll down...

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Leica S2: A 37.5 MPs Surprise

As reported by the British Journal of Photography, Leica launched an entirely new digital camera system destined to bridge the gap between professional digital SLRs and medium-format high resolution models.The S2, with 37.5 million pixel resolution, is the first of many future models that will form part of the S system. The first model sports a 30x45mm CCD sensor, which is 56%...

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POV: Portable Hard Drive Issues

Photograph © Tewfic El-SawyRecently returning from a trip to Mongolia, Nevada Wier recounts her frustrating experience with portable hard drives (aka digital wallets). It appears she purchased two of these gadgets before her trip and while in the field, these hard drives would not hold a charge, and eventually would not work. Nevada suspects the battery issue was caused either...

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News: Art Collection

All Photographs © Tewfic El-SawyI've recently sold 10 of my photographs to a major international bank headquartered in London. The distinctive aspect to this transaction is that the photographs are part of the bank's permanent art collection, and are printed on 40" by 25" (approx) canvases. My sales of photographs are traditionally either for stock or to magazines.Most of the...

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Cham Dances in New York City

Photograph © Tewfic El-SawyIn elaborate dress and masks, monks from Bhutan performed Cham dances at the Merchant's Gate in New York City's Central Park yesterday. The dances by the monks-dancers were in celebration of the opening on September 19 of The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan at the Rubin Museum of Art.The Rubin Museum and its Program Director, Tim McHenry (who...

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Canon 5D Mark II: Video

Here's a hands-on video demonstration of the new Canon 5D Mark ...

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Islam: The Month of Ramadan

© Reuters/Sugit Pamungkas © AP/Dar YasinRamadan is the Muslim religious observance that occurs during the 9th month of the Islamic calendar, believed to be the month in which the Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by the angel Gabriel. It is the Islamic month of fasting, in which participating Muslims do not eat or drink anything from true dawn until sunset. Fasting...

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Vincent de Groot: Faces of Mali

Vincent de Groot took photography up in earnest in 2001, and progressively switched to digital photography since then. Born in the Netherlands, he worked and lived in Germany, then Switzerland and currently resides in France.He used SoundSlides to showcase his two B&W galleries of Faces of Mali. Gallery OneGallery ...

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Maynard Switzer: India

© Maynard SwitzerMaynard Switzer is a New York City based photographer, with his own studio specializing in beauty and fashion photography, working for a very diverse group of advertising, design and editorial clients. He recently broadened his creative interests by pursuing travel, portrait and landscape photography.His biography reveals that he received his training at the...

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Mark Seager: Riding The Buzkashi

© Mark SeagerRiding The Buzkashi is an audio slideshow by British photographer Mark Seager on one of the toughest horse-riding events in the world: Buzkashi. The photographs were taken in Afghanistan where he and a colleague were taught the rudiments of the game by Tajiks and Uzbeks. Buzkashi is a traditional Central Asian team sport played on horseback (some say it's the precursor...

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Washington Post: Daughters of Iraq

© Andrea Bruce/Washington PostHere's a heartbreaking photo essay by Andrea Bruce published by The Washington Post titled "Daughters of Iraq".In a suburb of Baqubah, women have signed up to become Daughters of Iraq, a U.S. military-funded program that pays women to search other women at checkpoints to prevent the spate of recent suicide attacks. Many of the recruits are widows...

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Canon G10: It's Here Too

Also acccording to Market Watch, Canon will launch a new flagship G-series digital compact camera to replace the PowerShot G9. The G10 boasts 14.7 megapixels, and a Digic 4 processing engine, as used in the EOS 50D and 5D Mark II digital SLRs. Its 3-inch PureColor LCD has a claimed resolution of 461,000 dots.Aimed at photo enthusiasts and professionals seeking a back-up camera,...

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Canon 5D Mark II: It's Here

The wait is over! Canon announced its update to the wildly popular full frame EOS 5DThe EOS 5D Mark II has a 21.1-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor with DIGIC 4 Image Processor, a vast ISO Range of 100-6400 (expandable to ISO L: 50, H1: 12800 and H2: 25600), plus EOS technologies like Auto Lighting Optimizer and Peripheral Illumination Correction. It supports Live View shooting,...

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Stanley Greene: Interview in Perpignan

Here's an impromptu (and very personal) interview with photojournalist Stanley Greene of NOOR agency in the streets of Perpignan. Stanley recently traveled to Afghanistan and shot a powerful photo story about the crisis of drug abuse and infectious disease.I met Stanley while we were teaching courses at the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in Mexico last June, and I must say that...

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PhotoBurst

Photoburst is a travel photography daily contest, where the best photograph submitted by its contributors is uploaded, and showcased for that day. At the end of each month, the photographer of the best photo of the day is awarded with a B&H US$100 gift card. Gastão Bettencourt, Pedro de Sousa and Pedro Patrício are the three photographers behind this project, which has attracted...

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Project Kashmir

"Project Kashmir" is a feature documentary co-directed by two American women, Senain Kheshgi and Geeta V. Patel, who also appear in the film. Both friends, Geeta's family is Hindu from India; Senain's is Muslim from Pakistan, displaced from India at the time of the partition. The two travel to cover the war in Kashmir: for over 50 years, an area divided by deep-seated tensions...

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Chico Sanchez: Lucha Libre

Photograph Chico Sanchez-All Rights ReservedIt's been a while since I posted a SoundSlides project, so here's Mexican Lucha Libre from Chico Sanchez, a freelance photographer based in Mexico City. Chico worked in Venezuela, collaborating with Reuters, European Pressphoto Agency, Agencia EFE, and freelances for various newspapers and magazines.The slideshow is sub-titled as the...

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Sanjit Das: Dongria Kondh

Photograph Sanjit Das-All Rights ReservedSanjit Das is a documentary photographer, specializing in social issues as seen through the backdrop of India’s changing social, economic and political landscape, and he's focused on documenting the lives and conditions of those who are being overlooked by modernization.His work is published in books, book covers, newspapers and journals...

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Canon 5D II: 9.17.2008?

A well-established, reputable and very popular French magazine, Chasseur d'Images, has posted an article on its website predicting that the much-awaited successor to the full-frame Canon 5D will be announced on September 17 at 8:00 am.It is expected to have a full frame, like its predecessor, but with 21 megapixel Digic IV processor, a magnesium alloy body, Live View and video...

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Andaman Rising

Courtesy Andaman Rising Org Every now and then appears a visual project of such quality that I cannot wait to get its website on the virtual pages of TTP. Such a project is Andaman Rising, and is a project of UNC School of Journalism. A sensitive, and very well-put project by young journalists. Three-and-a-half years after the Asian tsunami hit southern Thailand , a team of...

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SanDisk: New 32 gb Compact Flash Card

SanDisk Corporation announced the 32-gigabyte (GB)1 SanDisk Extreme® III CompactFlash® (CF) card, the latest addition to its award-winning SanDisk Extreme III line. This new Extreme III CompactFlash has a 30MB/s (200x) read and write speed, and will retail for approximately $300 when it hits the stores in October.Personally, I find such an uber-high capacity rather unnerving, since...

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Jehad Nga: Somalia Through A Lens

Brightcove posted a 5th of September interview with Jehad Nga at the Frontline Club in London. Jehad is a talented emerging photographer who, for the last 3 years, worked in and around Mogadishu, Somalia. In this video, he presents a selection of his images, and is interviewed by a rather verbose Rob Walker of the BBC World Service. For more on Jehad Nga on TTP: (here) and (he...

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Book: What Matters

I normally don't post about books that I haven't read, since I don't want any posts on this blog to be construed as advertising or being commercial, but I occasionally come across books (photography or otherwise) that I sense are too important to ignore. Such a book is What Matters.What Matters features photo essays by James Nachtwey, Marcus Bleasdale, Paul Fusco, Anthony Suau...

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Michael Robinson Chavez: Dharavi

© Michael Robinson Chavez/LA TimesAlthough Dharavi is routinely called "the largest slum in Asia," and frequently "the largest slum in the world," this is not correct. However, Dharavi is certainly unique among slums. It's a neighborhood, a slum, of 3 square kilometers right in the heart of Mumbai, the economic heart of India that pulsates with energy and activity.Michael Robinson Chavez is a photojournalist at The Los Angeles Times, who is currently...

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Visa Pour L'Image: Philip Blenkinsop

Photograph © Olivier Laurent-Courtesy 1854/BJPPhilip Blenkinsop won the Visa d'Or News awards at Perpignan's photojournalism festival for his reportage of the China earthquake. The above photograph shows Diane Smyth of the British Journal of Photography (BJP) talking to Philip Blenkinsop (middle) and Stanley Greene (right) during the event.1854, the blog of BJP, has a number of...

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New York Times: Talibanistan

Photograph Lynsey Addario-Courtesy NY TimesIt's been a long while since I've seen an intelligent and interesting article published in the New York Times' Sunday magazine, but Talibanistan (Right At The Edge) by Dexter Filkins (accompanied by the black & white photographs of Lynsey Addario) in this week's magazine is really a chilling read. Naturally, I would've liked to see...

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Black Rapid R Straps: Santa Knocks Twice

Photograph Courtesy David du Chemin-All Rights ReservedHere's a story involving Black Rapid Camera Straps and two "Santas". A few weeks ago, I had written here on TTP that David Du Chemin's review of the Black Rapid straps on his Pixelated Image blog, made them look very interesting, especially since I was on the lookout for new camera straps myself. I concluded by vowing that...

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Munem Wasif: PDN INterview

Munem Wasif of Bangladesh is a popular figure at this year's Visa pour l'Image festival. He's just won the City of Perpignan Young Reporters award, and his exhibition of photos shot in and around his home country of Bangladesh is a highlight of the festival.He prefers to photograph in balck & white, which he finds more seductive for his style of work, and lauds the emergence of non-Western photographers who document their own countries.Via PDN...

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The Telegraph's Photo Competition 2008

Photograph 4Corners Images-All Rights ReservedThe Telegraph, one of the main UK newspapers, announced a travel photography contest open to residents of the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Republic of Ireland aged 18 years or over. The prizes are the new Nikon D700 kit worth £2,500, and the new COOLPIX P6000 camera worth £430. The winning photographs will be published in Telegraph...

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Véronique de Viguerie Under Fire

A couple of weeks ago, a group of Talibs in Afghanistan killed 10 French soldiers (attached to the NATO forces), and were subsequently photographed by Véronique de Viguerie, a photographer working with the French news magazine Paris Match, wearing the French soldiers' uniforms.A firestorm erupted in France following the publication of the photographs in the Paris-Match magazine, finding it indecent for a French magazine to show such images. Accusations...

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New Canon To Eclipse Competition?

Canon added an intriguing teaser to its United States website. As you see, it's of a camera's silhouette against what I assume to be the moon, and the words 'Destined Evolution.' Click the image for a bigger version. If that's not an introduction to a successor to the Canon's 5D, I don't what is.Rumors are rife all over the internet concerning the megapixel giants expected from...

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Getty Images Grants-Editorial Photography

Photograph Lynsey Addario-All Rights ReservedAt the Visa pour l'Image in Perpignan, Getty Images announced that Lynsey Addario, David Gillanders and Eugene Richards were selected as the next three recipients of the Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography.Each recipient will receive $20,000 and collaborative support from Getty Images photo editors as they pursue their documentary...

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Bhutan Ritual Dances (Cham) in NYC

Photograph Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedIn elaborate dress and masks, monks from Bhutan will perform Cham dances in public plazas and parks around New York City from Saturday, September 13 through Sunday, September 21, 2008. The monks-dancers will appear several times a day, in celebration of the opening on September 19 of The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan at the...

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National Geographic Assignment

liveBooks, Inc., a provider of customized portfolio websites and marketing software for professional photographers, announced the creation of a new website for National Geographic Assignment, a division of the publication that handles commercial representation for its photographers. The site was recently awarded the Gold Award at this year's 38th Annual Creativity Awards. National...

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PDN's Visa Pour L'Image

Photo District News is publishing video postcards from Perpignan, where the annual Visa Pour L'Image is taking place from September 30 to October 7, 2008.Naturally, we have to suffer through a sponsor message before getting to the vid...

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Charlie Mahoney: Ancestral Calling

Photograph Charlie Mahoney-All Rights ReservedHere's a wonderful portfolio of images by Charlie Mahoney, with the evocative title of Ancestral Calling. (Click on Portfolios).Bob and Dan O'Mahony are Charlie's great-uncles, who live in a farmhouse called Bawnea Kilbritain, outside Kinsale, County Cork in Ireland. I gather that Charlies spent a few days with them, researching his...

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Ramadan

Photograph Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedMuslims across the United States and the world are marking Ramadan, the holiest month of the Islamic year. Ramadan is believed to be the month in which the Qur'an was revealed to the Angel Gabriel, who later revealed it to the Prophet Muhammad. Ramadan Mubarak to TTP's reade...

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EPUK Appeal For Killed Photojournalists

Editorial Photographers UK (EPUK) is launching an appeal for cash to help the families of a young photographer and a journalist killed during the recent conflict in South Ossetia.Sasha (Alexander) Klimchuk was head of the independent photo agency Caucasus Images based in Tbilisi, Georgia. The 27 year old was freelancing for the Russian news agency Itar Tass at the time of his...

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The Photo Award

The Photo Award was founded in Sweden in the year 2008, with the purpose of enhancing journalistic photography, and to strengthen professional photography. It also aims to inspire young photographers and get more people interested in photography.The founder of Photo Award is news photographer Jonas Lemberg, who seeks to assist photographers who work in covering injustice in the...

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Vogue India: Crassness Or Business?

Copyright 2008 The New York Times CompanyThe New York Times features the article "Vogue’s Fashion Photos Spark Debate in India" which reports that Vogue India’s August issue presented a 16-page "vision of supple handbags, bejeweled clutches and status-symbol umbrellas, modeled not by runway stars or the wealthiest fraction of Indian society who can actually afford these accessories,...

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