Tom Bourdon: Varanasi Holy Man

Photo © Tom Bourdon -All Rights ReservedI thought that Tom Bourdon's photograph of a sadhu offering water to the sun on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi would be a perfect choice to end my blog posts for 2009. It projects the optimism we ought to feel today while we are at the cusp of welcoming a brand new year.Tom Bourdon is UK born, and is an award winning international travel...

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NGS' Traveler: Best of 2009

National Geographic Traveler's Editor-in-Chief Keith Bellows presents his favorite pictures published in his magazine throughout 2009. The audio slideshow features 14 photographs made by various photographers in countries ranging for Malaysia to Peru.I'm always intrigued how photo editors choose the photographs that are published, but I haven't learned much from Bellows' narrative....

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Michael Bednar: Eagle Hunters of Mongolia

Photo © Michael Bednar -All Rights ReservedI like big pictures, and Michael Bednar's website galleries have such large photographs, that viewing them is a virtual immersion into his imagery. His photo story about the Eagle Hunters of Mongolia is a visual treat...especially since it features not only environmental portraits of the hunters and their eagles, but also breathtaking...

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Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer

Photo © Mathias Braschler/Monika Fischer -All Rights ReservedVanity Fair magazine has featured the work of Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer, who dedicate themselves to documenting in portraiture the human cost of the climatic changes. Schlepping large-format cameras from Timbuktu to Siberia, and from Australia to the Alps, Braschler and Fischer visited 21 countries during 2009,...

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New York Times' 2009's Travel Photos

Photo © Justin Mott/NY Times -All Rights ReservedContinuing the wrap up of the "Best Of" for the year, here is The New York Times' best travel photographs as picked by their own photo editors, and which were published in the newspaper's Travel section during 2009.The photographers whose work is shown in the feature are Chris Bickford, Peter DaSilva, Lalo de Almeida, Josh Haner...

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American Photo: Images of the Year 2009

American Photography Magazine is featuring Images of the Year 2009 . Rather predictably (but deservedly) Ed Kashi is the Photojournalism Category Winner with his essay documenting the Trans Amadi Slaughter, an abattoir in Nigeria that had sprung up after petroleum-related pollution destroyed local fisheries. Photo © April Maciborka -All Rights ReservedOther winners in the Photojournalism...

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NYT: 2009 The Year in Pictures

Photo © Tyler Hicks/New York Times -All Rights ReservedThe newspaper version of the New York Times's Week In Review yesterday was a real fillip for photojournalism. The totality of the first page was of Tyler Hicks' superb blurry photograph of a US soldier in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, and much of the section was filled with the remarkable photographs by Emilio Morenatti, Moises...

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Unearthing Asia Magazine

Unearthing Asia bills itself as a travel 'zine focusing on culture, lifestyle and attractions all around Asia.It was started by Nikolas Tjhin and Michelle Lee, whose initial idea was to publish a travel related real-life publication, but as the costs were prohibitive, decided to publish it online. It's available online and downloadable in PF format.If my understanding is correct,...

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POV: New Luggage Rules For Photogs?

The news media are reporting that the incident on the Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit was certainly an attempted terrorist attack. This is causing extra security measures being implemented on all flights destined to the United States, which include body searches of all US bound travelers.As I mostly fly Virgin Atlantic, I visited its website and it now (as of...

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Nori Jemil: Bhutan

Photo © Nori Jemil -All Rights ReservedNori Jemil is a writer, photographer and a teacher who joined The Travel Photographer's Bhutan: Land of the Druk Yul Photo~Expedition™, and she has produced a broad body of work during the trip's two weeks' duration. The above photograph of a novice was made at the Wangdicholing Palace, which had served as the principal summer residence of...

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Nikon Festival: "Today..."

I thought this short movie would be appropriate for Christmas Day. It's courtesy of the Nikon Festival. Just click the arr...

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Happy Holidays To TTP's Readers...

Oh, and my photography New Year's Resolution? It's to go wider, increase my use of prime lenses and to be more complex in composition (ie more layers, etc).And to counterbalance excessive seasonal consumerism, here's an end-of-year bit of wisdom: No-name soft gear (bags, pouches, jackets, etc) available at Army Surplus stores are often as good/tough/reliable/useful as branded...

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The Travel Photographer's 2009 Picks

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy |Traders of Kochi-All Rights ReservedRather than imitating the "Best of 2009" photographs that are put together by various media blog sites, I thought that I'd show those photographs that are best reflective of my photographic style and interest, which were made while on my Photo~Expeditions™. The galleries in which these photographs appear are linked in...

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Emyr R.E. Pugh: Environmental Portraits

Photo © Emyr R.E. Pugh-All Rights ReservedIn his short website biography, Emyr R.E. Pugh describes himself as a linguist, translator, interpreter and a documentary photographer based in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia....but I think he's way more than that. I have no way of knowing how good his translation skills are, but what I do know is that he's an excellent documentary photographer.Emyr...

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fotoflōt: Innovative & Cool

I recently received one of my photographs that had been fotoflōt'ed, which means it had been printed on quality photographic paper and then fused on to a 1/8" thick acrylic sheet (10"x15" size).I chose one of my Theyyam photographs to be fotoflōt'ed, and I'm very pleased by its frameless design, and by the protection it provides to the photograph. The acrylic has low reflection...

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TTP's Travel Photographer Of The Year Is....

Photo © Joey Lawrence-All Rights ReservedJoey Lawrence!!!!The Travel Photographer's readers have voted, and the award goes to Joey Lawrence who gleaned 45% of the total votes cast amongst the four candidates.Joey is the young photographer I raved about in a post this past summer. He has been shooting commercial photography, photojournalism and music videos around the world by the...

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Andy Isaacson: Central Asia

Andy Isaacson is a writer and photojournalist whose work The Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan has just appeared in The New York Times, and was published in Slate and National Geographic Adventure, among others.He seems to have made a specialty of photographing Central Asia after traveling in Asia for over a year. He considers Brooklyn and the San Francisco Bay Area as his home. I...

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Global Post: Whirling Dervishes

Photo © Nichole Sobecki/GlobalPost-All Rights ReservedGlobal Post features an article and photographs by Nichole Sobecki titled Death of Rumi Breeds A Lively Dance relating to the most celebrated mystical poet of the Islamic and Sufism, and how the Mevlevi religious order founded by the poet celebrates his life 800 years on, with performances by Sufi whirling dervishes.The Dervishes...

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Poll: Follow Up

Some days days ago, I posted a new poll asking my readers to choose The Travel Photographer's Travel Photographer of The Year, and so far Joey Lawrence is leading, with Zackary Canepari not too far behind. So head for the poll here and, if you haven't already, cast your decisive vote for one of the four superb photographe...

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The Big Picture Does 2009

Photo © Menahem Kahana-AFP/Getty Images -All Rights ReservedPhoto © Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters -All Rights ReservedPhoto © David Gray/Reuters -All Rights ReservedOne of my favorite photography blogs is The Boston Globe's The Big Picture which has recently featured a look over the past 12 months through photographs. These photographs were spread over three parts.Out of the total 120...

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Street Flavors of Bali: Warungs

Photo © Basil Childers/The New York Times -All Rights ReservedThe New York Times' Travel section brings us a welcome feature (especially to those of us living in the frigid North-East) titled Street Flavors of Bali describing some of the island's street food vendors, known locally as warungs. The slideshow starts off with Naughty Nuri's, a Ubud institution, which occupies a modest...

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2009 Travel Photographer Of The Year*

Photo © Johan Ensing via TPOTY -All Rights ReservedThe Travel Photographer Of The Year has announced the winners of its 2009 competition. Travel Photographer of the Year 2009 was awarded to G.M.B. Akash, an award-winning and well-known photographer from Bangladesh, who was unanimously voted as the outstanding entrant in the 2009 awards by the judging panel for his vibrant photographs.There...

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LaCie Rikiki

LaCie just announce the availability of one of the smallest mobile hard drives on the market, which was dubbed by the company as Rikiki. It appears that Rikiki means "tiny" in French. The august L'Académie Française would frown mightily at this claim as it's certainly not in the language of Voltaire, but slang.Having cleared the linguistic mishap, LaCie Rikiki is available in 250GB,...

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Magnum In Motion: Alex Webb's Istanbul

With the third Foundry Photojournalism Workshop scheduled to be held in Istanbul in June 2010, I thought of featuring Alex Webb's Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names showcased on the Magnum In Motion website as an inspiration to those interested in registering for the workshop.The audio slideshow shows us Alex Webb's vision of Istanbul, a city of minarets, ATM machines and designer...

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A Wonderful Concept: PhotoPhilanthropy

PhotoPhilanthropy's stated mission is to promote, support and connect photographers to non-profit organizations around the world. It has created a community for photographers, photo enthusiasts and non-profit organizations to network, to tell their stories, show their work, exchange ideas, find opportunities and financial support for their efforts.It also encourages student, amateur...

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POV: On Unpaid Photo Internships

A famous award-winning conflict photographer seeks an intern, for 3 days a week for three months, with demonstrable experience in photo and processing related tasks, but the position is unpaid.And the blogosphere and photography forums erupt! Perhaps for good reason.As one can imagine, photographers of all stripes with opinionated but honest points of view, others with axes to...

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Jehad Nga: Turkana

Photo © Jehad Nga -All Rights ReservedWhat a way to start the week!I've described Jehad Nga as being a master of chiaroscuro and his new work Turkana just reaffirms and even compounds this well-deserved appellation. His new work is just beautiful and details of each photograph must be slowly absorbed. In Jehad's photography, I guess less is more...and his play of light against...

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My Work: Chinatown Chinese Flutist

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedMatt Brandon's slideshow featured yesterday prompts me to feature this photograph I made of a Chinese Opera flutist playing his instrument in New York City's Chinatown. I chose this photograph to underscore my view that hands (especially those who have "history" to them) can tell visual stories, almost as well as faces, provided these hands...

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Matt Brandon: Penang's Pulau Tikus

Matt Brandon has been photographing since he was 10 years old with his father’s Cannonet QL Rangefinder, and now specializes in NGO, relief and humanitarian projects. He recently moved to Malaysia, and frequently features audio slideshows on his The Digital Trekker blog.Here's one of his latest production which he titled The Hands Of Rat Island. This self-assignment was completed...

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POV: Fate Of A Photo-Expedition Leader?

© What The Duck-All Rights ReservedThis will probably be my shortest POV ever, but is particularly timely as I'm leading the Tribes of South Rajasthan & Kutch Photo~Expedition&trade that starts in about five weeks!Will this be my fate??? Nah...(Cartoon strip seen on Bob Krist's Photo Traveler blo...

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Yuri Kozyrev: Yamal Peninsula

Photo © Yuri Kozyrev/NOOR-All Rights ReservedCoinciding with the global climate talks in Copenhagen, Yuri Kozyrev (among the 9 photographers of NOOR photo agency) photographed climate stories with the purpose of documenting the consequences of global warning. Produced during the last two months, the project named Consequences is being launched during the United Nations Climate...

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Ragnar Axelsson: The Hunters of Greenland

Photo © Ragnar Axelsson-All Rights ReservedWith the advent of the cold snap that's gripping New York these days, as well as the Climate Conference in Copenhagen, I thought it opportune to post The New York Times' feature on the black & white work of Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson.Ragnar has been traveling to Inuit villages in Greenland’s most remote regions, over the...

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Foundry Photojournalism Workshop Istanbul 2010

Eric Beecroft announced the third Foundry Photojournalism Workshop will be held in Istanbul, Turkey on June 20-26, 2010. The initial roster of instructors, who are giving their time to teach photojournalism to emerging photographers are (at the time of writing) as follows:Lynsey AddarioKael AlfordAndrea BruceGuy CalafMichael Robinson-ChavezRena Effendi Tewfic El-SawyDavid GuttenfelderRon...

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LumaLoop: Yet Another Camera Strap

After BlackRapid's success, another strap contender LumaLoop is entering the fray hoping that it can also provide an improved camera strap, one of photography's perennial Holy Grails.James Duncan Davidson (a photographer) designed and made the LumaLoop, an across-the-shoulder strap with a quick-release lanyard, whose main claims are comfort and flexibility. Those who have already...

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Poll: TTP's Photographer of The Year?

Who Should Be The Travel Photographer's Photographer of the Year?Zackary Canepari Diego Verges Dede Pickering Joey Lawrence  pollcode.com free pollsThe time of year has come when I normally choose a travel photographer who gets the coveted award of The Travel Photographer's Photographer Of The Year. However this year, I've opted for a more democratic system to elect one of the above four (who were shortlisted by me), and feature this simple...

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Marc Wattrelot: Balochistan

Photo © Marc Wattrelot-All Rights ReservedHere's a timely feature brought to us by Foto8 showcasing the work of photojournalist Marc Wattrelot titled Divided Desert: Balochistan.The blurb that accompanies the slideshow informs us that Balochistan extends over 350,000 square kms (approximately the size of Germany) and is the largest province in the Pakistan Federation. About 7 million...

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NGS: Results of Photo Contest 2009

The National Geographic has selected the winners in its Fourth Annual Global Photography Contest from more than 200,000 submissions.Each country held national contests and, in the final round, sent one photo from each of the three categories to National Geographic's Washington headquarters for judging. Judges were National Geographic staff photographer Mark Thiessen; design editor...

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Canon 7D: It May Be Rugged After All!

I've just stumbled on the interesting ( and certainly one for your bookmarks if Canon is what you use) website Canon Field Reviews (CFR) authored by Pro Nature Photographer Ole Jørgen Liodden of Norway who tests Canon gear under extreme real life conditions.Liodden took his Canon 7D on a three and a half week week photo expedition to Antarctica, and put it through extreme and hard...

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China: Portraits of 56 Ethnic Groups

Photo © Chen Hai Wen-All Rights ReservedHere's an interesting "ethno-photographic" gallery by Chinese photographer Chen Hai Wen (all the information was translated from the Wen Xue City news website using Google Translator) who has recently published large scale photographs in what seems to have been titled as Harmonious China depicting groupings of 56 ethnic groups in China. From...

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Kroo Bay: Anna Kåri and Guilhem Alandry

Here's a humanitarian project produced by Anna Kåri and Guilhem Alandry, both photojournalists, titled Kroo Bay, and commissioned by and created for Save the Children It's an interactive panoramic multimedia, which adds a tactile feel to the project by its viewers...it's as if one was there. It's remarkably well done, and uses panoramas, videos, audio and stills.Kroo Bay is an...

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