Chico Sanchez: Mexican Bullfighting

Photograph © Chico Sanchez-All Rights ReservedI've featured Chico Sanchez's work on a number of occasions (links below), and he's back on TTP with his SoundSlides slideshow on Mexican Bullfighting. The audio is well chosen, and weaven quite nicely into the slideshow with narrative, ambient sound, etc. Although the subject matter may offend many who (in my view, justifiably) oppose...

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Kalpesh Lathigra: Transmission

Photograph © Kalpesh Lathigra-All Rights ReservedAs previously noted in The Travel Photographer blog (see below for link), Kalpesh Lathigra is an enormously talented London-based freelance photographer, working for most of the United Kingdom's newspaper magazines, including the Sunday Times Magazine, and The Independent Magazine. His work ranges from photographic essays of the...

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WP: Mumbai Attacks

Photograph © Altaf Qadri/AP-All Rights ReservedThe media is full of reports of the attacks on Mumbai's landmark hotels and others areas. This is the third day that militants and Indian security forces are battling, with reports of about 150 dead, and over 300 wounded. The majority of the casualties and wounded are Indians. The situation still appears confused, with continuous...

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Nikon Outs Its DX3

Image Courtesy Engadget In the pursuit of fair and balanced reporting, here's a Nikon item. According to the Engadget website, Nikon has outed its yet to be formally announced DX3 DSLR. It's said that it will have a 24.5mp FX sensor, 5:4 and DX crops, 5fps at full resolution; DX crop shoots 10mp images at up to 7fps, ISO 100-1600, with an extendability of down to 50 and up to...

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National Geo's Photo Contest: Results

Photograph © Van Nguyen/Courtesy NG-All Rights ReservedThe National Geographic's website just featured the winners of its International Photography Contest. Its categories were People, Places and Nature. However, to see all the submissions, one needs to download some program called Silverlight from Microsoft...which is not compatible with Power PC Macs. Too bad...and sort of shortsighted...

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Makin' Babies: A Laugh

I think a joke will lift our collective spirit on this Thanksgiving day. It's a bit long, but you'll get into it pretty quickly. Of course, it's a good thing the photographer is a Canon user...it wouldn't work otherwise. Thanks to Ralph Childs for relaying it to me. ***The Smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the...

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Social Documentary Website

I've stumbled across the Social Documentary website, a new addition to documentary photography on the web, and which features documentary photography from around the world.According to its self-description, Social Documentary welcomes "professional and amateur photographers, journalists, NGOs, students—anyone with a story to tell and a collection of good photographs" and who seek...

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Yan Seiler: The Outsiders

Photograph © Yan Seiler-All Rights ReservedYan Seiler travels allows him to document the plight of people in several Asian countries, an experience that provides his work a strong humanitarian slant.His biography on his website is sparse, but it appears the Swiss national’s interest in photography is very recent, and was kindled by the gift of an old film camera in 2004. He discovered...

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A New Canon 5D Mark II Video

Canon EOS5DmkII, One night in Beijing. from Dan Chung on VimeoHere's a video filmed by the UK's The Guardian newspaper photographer Dan Chung entirely on a production Canon EOS5DmkII and adapted Nikon and Zeiss lenses using manual focus. The camera was purchased to use solely as a video camera with existing Nikon kit.The film was shot an edited in about twelve hours directly after picking the camera up from a Beijing camera store and charging the...

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Sacramento Bee: The Chhat Festival

Photograph © AP / Bikas Das-All Rights ReservedThe Sacramento Bee website has recently joined the list of large-image blogs with its The Frame. Two of the others are the Boston Globe's The Big Picture and WSJ's Photo Journal.The Frame has featured photographs of the Chhat festivities in India last week. Hindu devotees worship the sun god and fast all day for the improvement of...

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Tom Hoops: Wai Kru Ceremony

Photograph © Tom Hoops-All Rights ReservedTom Hoops' biography is sparse....very sparse. His website only says that he's a freelance photographer, based in Bangkok and available for worldwide assignments. That's it.However, his work speaks for him. Mostly black & white, with a few in color, Hoops has a natural affinity for portraits...striking portraits. A few of his subjects...

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POV: Photographers & Recession Part 2

In contrast to my previous Photographers & Recession, today's POV post strikes a happier note, and here's why:I was emailed last night by a potential buyer looking for a travel/documentary photographer (he'll remain anonymous to respect his privacy) who, among his many travels, photographed in Tibet. It seems the buyer wanted to buy his photographs of Tibet, searched the net...

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Enrico Martino: Mexico's Tehuanas

Photograph © Enrico Martino-All Rights ReservedAfter considerable thought, the gallery on Enrico Martino's website that I liked the best is titled "A Matriarchy in the Land of Machos...it's the photographer's ode to the tehuanas, the beautiful women of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico. These women wear beautifully colored dresses and when they dance, they have the...

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Canon's Behind The Lens: Marco di Lauro

Photograph © Marco di Lauro-All Rights ReservedCanon's Behind The Lens features Italian photographer Marco di Lauro. He's a photographer since 1993, and has been shooting for Getty Images since 2002 after working as a freelancer for The Associated Press. He covered conflicts in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Africa and The Balkans, and recently returned from a two month embed with...

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POV: Photographers & Recession

Photograph © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedThe United States stocks crashed to five-and-a-half year lows yesterday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 427 points, the S&P 500 losing 52 points and the Nasdaq Composite falling 52 points. At opening today, the Dow dropped another 150 points to get to a low of 7850. The Associated Press solemnly announced that...

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LAT: Cementerio Norte

Photograph © Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times-All Rights ReservedHere's a multimedia feature published on the Los Angeles Time's website titled Cementario Del Norte (I think it should be spelled Cementerio), a cemetery in the north of Manila. About 50,000 poverty-striken Filipinos consider this cemetery as their home, and have converted the burial site into a village of the living.The...

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Gemma Thorpe: Footsteps in the Gobi

Photograph © Gemma Thorpe-All Rights ReservedGemma Thorpe is a British freelance documentary photographer currently based in Beijing, who specializes in social and environmental issues. Having studied Geography at Sheffield University before turning to photography full-time, Gemma initially studying at Leeds College of Art and Design and then in 2007 for an MA in International...

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The New Yorker: Photogs' Memorable Meals

Photograph © Brent Stirton/Courtesy The New YorkerFor some reason, the New Yorker magazine's website decided to feature an audio slideshow titled Tea & Wallaby, in which some photographers describe memorable meals they've had whilst working in the field. John Stanmeyer talks of chai, Rena Effendi of a gruesome-looking sheep stew, Carolyn Drake of pears in Uigur-land and Stephanie...

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Jasmine Debels: India

I'm frequently referred to web galleries of travel photographers such as the one of Jasmine Debels, a Belgian photographer, whose India photo gallery is prefaced by a quote by Mahatma Ghandi essentially saying that happiness is in the eye of its beholder....how true.Most of Jasmine's Travel portfolio is of India, although one or two of her photographs seem to be of Burma and Bhutan....

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DxOMark

DxO Mark proclaims that it's a website for people who are passionate about image quality. It's still in beta version, and it "features the first database of objective digital camera image quality measurements entirely accessible via the internet." In addition to the Image Quality Database itself, the website proposes its new DxOMark Sensor scale, which allows it to rank digital...

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Richard Daniels: Buddha Factory

Photograph © Richard Daniels-All Rights ReservedRichard Daniels is a British photographer who studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute in Australia, and is currently working out of Bangkok. He has exhibited his work at the National Museum Bangkok and participated in the International Photography Best of Show 2008 curated by Bill Hunt of Hasted Hunt (NY). His photographs were also...

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Magnum Blog: Advice To Young Photogs

Alec Soth's recent post Advice to Young Photographers on Magnum's blog is extremely useful, and I think it's certainly a must-read for many emerging and established photographers. Not only does it include Alec's own advice to image-makers, but also sensible advice from about 35 other Magnum photographers ranging from Abbas to Alex Majoli, from Constantine Manos to Paolo Pellegrin,...

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NYT: Tin in the Congo

Photograph © Johan Spanner-All Rights ReservedThe New York Times features a multimedia slideshow titled A Scramble for Tin in Congo ably narrated by Lydia Polgreen and with Johan Spanner's photographs. The main scene is in Bisie, a tin-rush village of about 10,000 people who mine the tin in terrible conditions, and whose output enriches renegade Congolese army troops. One cannot...

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Bob Krist: The Kerala Project

Photograph © Bob Krist-All Rights ReservedHere's an article in Digital Photo Pro magazine by the legendary and distinguished travel photographer Bob Krist who writes of his recent experiences photographing in Kerala. Bob tells us he had never been to Kerala, and decided to go to this wonderful part of India on a self-assignment. He describes how he planned his trip carefully,...

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Peter Dench: Egypt's Zabaleen

Photograph © Peter Dench-All Rights ReservedPeter Dench is a British photographer who works primarily in the fields of commercial and editorial photography. He was granted a World Press Photo award, and his work was chosen to participate in PDN's Photo Annual 2008.His website offers many interesting galleries (his work on UK themes is thought-provoking), but I chose his work on...

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Faces of India: Vincent de Groot

Photograph © Vincent de Groot-All Rights ReservedI previously featured Vincent de Groot's photographs of Mali on this blog, and now he returns with his newly uploaded Faces of India Soundslides feature. The photographs are in black & white, and are accompanied by a hip-hop style of music....it could well be modern Bhangra. This might be a little incongruous at first, but maybe...

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Bhutan: Tamshing & Thangbi Mani festivals

Here's a gallery of my photographs titled Tsechus of Tamshing & Thangbi Mani which features the dancing monks are they prepare and perform at these two provincial festivals (or tsechus) in Bhutan's heartland of Bumthang, and from which I just returned from.The enjoyable, but time-consuming, task of evaluating and processing all of the images brought back from my 2008 Bhutan...

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My Show Off: Lakhang Butter Lamps

Photograph © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedHere's an image made while I was entering the Wangdichoeling Lakhang in Jakar to photograph a prayer ceremony. I was hurriedly climbing a very steep set of wobbly wooden stairs to get to the lakhang's prayer room in time for the ceremony, and this scene of a woman lighting butter lamps unfolded in front of me. In my view, little can...

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Chico Sanchez: Day of the Dead

Photograph © Chico Sanchez-All Rights ReservedChico Sanchez brings us once again a nicely-done Soundslides feature of the El Dia de Los Muertos from the Mexican towns of Xochimilco and Toluca. He combined a well chosen ambient audio and music to create an interesting soundtrack to his photographs.The Day of the Dead is a holiday celebrated mainly in Mexico, and focuses on family...

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Heather McClintock

Heather McClintock announced that her solo exhibition, The Innocent: Casualties of the Civil War in Northern Uganda, opens at Gallery FCB in New York City from November 13th until January 1st (Monday - Friday: 12-5pm). The artist’s opening reception Thursday November 13th from 6-9PM. Gallery FCB is located at 16 W.23rd st between 5th & 6th ave on the 3rd floor. The Travel Photographer...

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The Travel Photographer's 2009 Tours

Here's a post to plug my 2009 upcoming photo-expeditions-workshops, including my participation in the Foundry photojournalism Workshop in Manali, India.For further information and details:Theyyams of Malabar Photo ExpeditionGnawa Festival In EssaouiraBhutan: Land of the Druk Yul 2009Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2009For a feel on how I conduct my photo-expeditions, and how they...

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Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2009

Further details on the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2009 have now been published. The workshop will be held in Manali (Manali-Kulu Valleys, Himachal Pradesh, India) from 26 July to 1 August 2009, for a total of 6 days.Tuition is $900 for the workshop program, which includes six days of classes, all slideshows, panels, parties, portfolio reviews, and events during the workshop...

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1 on 1: Kirsten Luce

Photograph © Kirsten Luce-All Rights ReservedThe Travel Photographer blog occasionally posts interviews with both travel and editorial photographers. This interview is with Kirsten Luce, a freelance photojournalist working in New York City. Her work was published in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Time, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald (International...

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WP: The Healing Fields

The Washington Post brings us a poignant feature titled The Healing Fields. It's about hundreds of uninsured and under-insured American citizens who come to an isolated county in Virginia every year to seek treatment at a field hospital operated by the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps.I cannot understand how can anyone decry universal health-care in our country after watching...

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Ethiopia's Nomad Warriors: Salgado

Photograph © Sebastião Salgado-All Rights ReservedRolling Stone magazine published black & white photographs of Ethiopia's Nomad Warriors by Sebastião Salgado. The tribes of the Omo Valley such as Hamer, Mursi and the Sumer are featured in this essay of images by a master photographer. In my view, the images are too small to appropriately convey these people's beauty and charisma,...

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Kumari: Nepal's Living Goddess

Photograph © Paula Bronstein/Getty ImagesI read on the National Geographic’s website that Nepal has just chosen a new Kumari, the living goddess, a few days ago. The Kumari is essentially Nepal’s virgin goddess, whose body houses the spirit of Taleju (an incarnation of Goddess Durga).There are stringent rules for a girl to be chosen as a Kumari. She must belong to the Shakya clan...

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PDN + Canon?

I received my PDN November issue yesterday, and was surprised to see its cover was a Canon advertisement for the EOS 50D. Now, I'm all for magazines to make money from advertisers, but to have PDN's cover taken over by an ad is annoying, and a turn-off.To be clear, PDN still has a regular cover, but it's covered by another cover: the Canon ad, and ripping it off damages the issue....

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In Harm's Way

Here's In Harm's Way, a film produced by CBS/Warner Brothers following war photographer Zorial Miller and photojournalist Alissa Everett through Gaza and the West Bank. However, while the above link can only be seen in the United States, the film can now be seen on You Tube. Zoriah Miller is the freelance photographer who published pictures of dead U.S. Marines on his blog, which led him to be ejected from his U.S. military embed in Iraq. He was...

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Bhutan's Coronation

Photograph © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedThe Himalayan nation of Bhutan crowned its fifth king Thursday after a two-year wait for the precise moment deemed most auspicious by court astrologers. At precisely 8:31 a.m. local time King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, 52, placed the Raven Crown on the head of his son, 28-year old Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, giving him the title...

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David Rochkind: Kenya

Photograph © David Rochkind-All Rights ReservedDavid Rochkind is based in Caracas, Venezuela and covers news and produces feature stories all over Latin America and elsewhere. His images and stories have been published by The New York Times, Time magazine, Glamour, Stern, The Observer's Sunday Magazine and CARE.He was chosen as one of Photo District News' 2008 New & Emerging...

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Chobi Mela V: Photo Festival

The dates of Chobi Mela V: The International Festival Of Photography in Bangladesh have been delayed to 29th January 2009 - 20th February 2009.Among other reasons, the organizers have had to delay Chobi Mela V due to the overwhelming response and the large number of high quality entries. They also claim that Chobi Mela V will be bigger, better and more diverse than any of the previous...

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Yes We Can

Photograph © Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune-All Rights Reserved"This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time - to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth - that out of many, we are one; that while...

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My New G10: First Shot

Photograph © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedI bought a Canon G10 two days ago, and haven't had the time to really put it through its paces yet...however, I've formed a bunch of initial impressions from a couple of shots made in the streets of New York. I will follow up with further thoughts as I use it, and will post these on TTP. I suspect that many of my eventual thoughts,...

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My Show Off: Gangtey Couple

Photograph © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedHere's a photograph of an elderly farming couple at the Gangtey Goempa monastery, who were quite excited to attend the festival's rehearsals. It was rumored that the King of Bhutan would be attending the actual festival the following morning. The valley of Gangtey is one of the most beautiful in Bhutan, and the Gangtey Goempa monastery...

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POV: Birds of A Feather...

Picking up the thread from various postings in the past week or so, here's a list of travel photographers, who seem to be "birds of a feather" in terms of overall style, visual and geographical interests, compositional affinity, and passion for cultural experiences.So here are (alphabetically-listed) four blogs/websites I encourage you to visit often and bookmark to satisfy your...

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My Show-Off: Black Hat Dancer

Photograph © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedThe Black Hat dance (Shana) is an important dance during the annual tsechus in Bhutan. These dances are also used in purification ceremonies during the construction of dzongs, temples, and chortens.The Black Hat dancers (such as the one above, photographed at the tsechu held in Wangdue on October 2008), assume the role of yogis with...

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