Janet Jarman: Mexico

Photo ©Janet Jarman-All Rights ReservedJanet Jarman is a freelance photographer and a multimedia storyteller currently based in Mexico. She has worked extensively in Latin America and Asia, and produces a number of documentary projects which explore immigration issues, globalization and sustainable development. Janet's photographs and essays appeared...

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Chobi Mela V: Photo Festival

Chobi Mela V is in full swing in Dhaka, with over sixty exhibitions, thirty-five participating nations, well over a thousand images, and over fifty visiting artists from Asia alone. There are live broadcast of important events, especially the video conference between Mahasweta Devi, Noam Chomsky and Stuart Hall, as they provide their take on 'Freedom'....

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Chinese New Year

Photo ©REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad-All Rights ReservedI've been remiss in acknowledging the Chinese Lunar New Year which was just heralded a few days ago, and which is being observed by ethnic Chinese and others around the world...so Gong Xi Fa Cai!The above photograph is courtesy The Big Picture blog of The Boston Globe, and is of a Chinese man reciting...

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Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2009

I've posted about the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2009 before, and it continues to progress very nicely. If you're passionate about photojournalism, this workshop offers a unique opportunity to access extremely interesting classes. The workshop's costs is kept as low as possible and the instructors provide their services for free.Some of the instructors...

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Sergio Pitamitz: Travel Photographer

Photo ©Sergio Pitamitz -All Rights ReservedSergio Pitamitz is an Italian travel and wildlife photographer, currently based in Varese, Italy where he works as staff photographer at Latitudes Magazine, and is represented by Corbis and Getty.Sergio, at that time represented by SIPA Press, was the first Western photographer to gain permission from the...

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Asim Rafiqui: The Idea of India

Photo ©Asim Rafiqui -All Rights ReservedAsim Rafiqui, a US photographer currently based in Sweden, was recently awarded a grant by the Aftermath Project for his project, "The Idea of India: Religious and Cultural Pluralism as Resistance to Sectarian Conflict," an exploration of the aftermath of religious conflict in India through documenting pluralist...

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One Shot: Eric Lafforgue: Theyyam

Photo ©Eric Lafforgue -All Rights ReservedThis striking portrait is of a Theyyam performer in the Malabar region of Kerala, and is by Eric Lafforgue, a talented travel photographer who lives in Toulouse, France.In anticipation of my forthcoming Theyyam of Malabar photo-expedition in the same region of India, I approached Eric a few days ago to ask...

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POV: The Shameful War

Photo © Tyler Hicks/NYTimes-All Rights ReservedMy point of view regarding the calamitous massacre of the Palestinian people in Gaza by the Israeli military is supported by a multimedia production by The New York Times titled "A War's Many Angles" with the photographs (and voices) of Tyler Hicks and Moises Saman. The former documents the devastation...

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The Travel Photographer's Newsletters

As the loyal readers of this blog know, I author a monthly newsletter which is emailed to subscribers on my mailing list. The newsletter provides updates on my photo-expeditions and my photo galleries and is proving to be very popular, with new subscribers registering almost every day.My photo expeditions are usually by invitation (or by referral by...

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Alessandra Meniconzi: Hidden China & Artic

I previously posted on this blog on Alessandra Meniconzi's new book Hidden China, which has now been published, and is available at bookstores. The press release reads in part: "This illustrated book explores some of the most remote regions of China and brings to life a world far removed from the great metropolises, a world nearly forgotten, where...

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B&H's Canon 5D Mark II Video

B&H, the camera and video superstore, and one of New York City's landmarks, judging by the number of visitors (okay, I made that up but it could be true), has put up a short video reviewing the new Canon 5D Mark II. The review is not too technical and will appeal to those who are looking to upgrade their existing DSLRs to this latest (and very popular) produ...

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Photographers In Conflict

Here's an extremely interesting project produced by Goran Galic and Gian-Reto Gredig involving insightful interviews from 32 leading photojournalistsFollowing Abu Ghraib and the Asian tsunami, these 32 photographers were invited by Goran and Gian-Reto to a bare black painted studio, and were photographed and interviewed via videos. According to the...

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Book: Steve Bloom: Living Africa

Photo © Steve Bloom-All Rights ReservedWhile Steve Bloom is certainly among the top ranked wildlife photographers in the world, he is also a superb photographer of cultures. Born in South Africa, he moved to England in 1977, where he worked in the graphic arts industry for many years. In the early nineties, during a visit to South Africa, his interest...

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Ayin: Inner Mongolian Tribe

Photo © Ayin-All Rights ReservedAyin is a Mongolian self-taught freelance photographer, and is a member of the Photographer Association in China, and was awarded the honor of being one of "The Ten Best Photographers in Inner Mongolia", along with numerous photographic awards in China. In 2007, he was one of the four award recipients of the 4th Annual...

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America's New Dawn

Courtesy The Huffington PostMy personal sense of elation in seeing Mr Obama being sworn is as 44th President of the United States today is nothing short of extraordinary. As a naturalized United States citizen, the past 8 years had dimmed my pride in being an American, but today, it surges back again...more powerful than it ever was. I can't wait to...

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My Show Off: Qutb Uddin Dargah

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedA friend (who'll remain anonymous for the time being) sent me various photographs of Indian Muslims, part of a project he's working on. Feeling pangs of envy at the quality and style of his work, I rummaged through my inventory and found this photograph of a scene at the Qutb Uddin Dargah in Delhi.One of my...

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Mark Edward Harris: Inside Iran

Photo © Mark Edward Harris-All Rights ReservedIran has been grossly maligned for political reasons by the current administration, and most Americans know it as a member of the ridiculous "Axis of Evil" moniker used by Bush. The book Inside Iran by Mark Edward Harris may redress this view. In 1986 Mark Edward Harris set off on a four-month trek across...

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Eric de Vries: Cham Muslims of Cambodia

Khmer Islam is an audio slideshow produced by photographer Eric de Vries of the Khmer Islam, known as the Cham Muslims. These are members of an ethnic group in villages near the Mekong and Tonle Sap river in Cambodia. Most Chams in Cambodia are involved in fishing and agriculture. Eric photographed the series at the Islam Spiritual Center, Russei Chrouy...

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Shawn Baldwin: Egypt

Photo © Shawn Baldwin-All Rights ReservedShawn Baldwin is a photographer based in Cairo, Egypt, whose work regularly appear in The New York Times. For the past 10 years he covered major news events in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East including the war in Iraq. His work was recently been exhibited in New York and was published in most...

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NYT: The Girls of Mirwais School

Image © Danfung Dennis/NYT-All Rights Reserved"Then the man pulled Shamsia’s burqa from her head and sprayed her face with burning acid. Scars, jagged and discolored, now spread across Shamsia’s eyelids and most of her left cheek. These days, her vision goes blurry, making it hard for her to read."The New York Times features Danfung Dennis' photographs...

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Dima Gavrych: Holi

Image © Dima Gavrych-All Rights ReservedHopefully this will brighten up the wintery day we have here in New York!Dima Gavrych is an Ukranian-born New York City based documentary and travel photographer. Over the past decade, he has works for MSF/Doctors Without Borders, the UN Population Fund, and major news organizations such as the Associated Press,...

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TTP's Photo Expeditions: Update

It has been an extraordinarily busy 2-3 weeks for my photo-expeditions. As readers of this blog and subscribers to my monthly newsletter know, I'm planning three amazing photo-expeditions for 2009. Since I've announced the three itineraries almost simultaneously, I've been receiving commitments to participate, a torrent of questions, requests for testimonials,...

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NGS: 2008 Photos of the Year

The National Geographic's Editor in Chief Chris Johns selects some of his favorite photographs published in the magazine in 2008. The French believe, rather surprisingly, that tastes and colors are not issues to be discussed, and being certain that there were much more arresting photographs published in the 2008 NG magazines, I wholeheartedly agree...

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Paul Panayiotou: Vietnam

Image © Paul Panayiotou-All Rights ReservedI had quite a bit of trouble choosing which of Paul Panayiotou's galleries would I feature on The Travel Photographer blog. Would it be his work on Cuba, Egypt (very tempting) or Vietnam? And how could I leave out Cambodia, Spain and Cyprus? Finally, I decided on Vietnam...it's my blog after all.Paul is a...

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Ivan Gonzalez: Devil Dancers of Naiguata

Image © Ivan Gonzalez-All Rights ReservedHere's an audio slideshow with the photographs of Venzuela photographer Ivan Gonzalez of the Devil Dancers of Naiguata. This is a Venezuelan traditional ritual celebrated during the Roman Catholic feast day of Corpus Christi, and symbolizes the victory of good over evil. Its audio track is only in Spanish, but...

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AP: Gaza Audio Slideshow

Here's an audio slideshow Israeli Forces Attack The Gaza Strip with photographs by Associated Press photographers showing the destruction of Gaza. (Via duckrabbit multimedia).When you're done watching, here's one of the few honest commentator's opinion: Robert Fisk of the Independe...

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WSJ's Photo Journal: Ashura

Photo © Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters-All Rights ReservedThe Wall Street Journal's Photo Journal is replete with gorgeous large format photographs, and are chosen to follow world events. I particularly liked the photograph of these men covering themselves in mud for the Ashura religious festival a few days ago in Khorramabad, Iran. I have no idea what...

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Lacie Hard Disk Max

In my brain, there's an IWO compartment. This acronym stands for "I Want One", and here is a product destined to get filed in the recesses of this ever-expanding IWO compartment, to be retrieved when budgetary constraints are lifted or eased.LaCie announced its Hard Disk MAX high capacity storage system for users who want advanced RAID features and...

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Burn Magazine

burn was launched as an online magazine/journal on December 21, 2008 by the legendary David Alan Harvey and a team of emerging photographers. Its intent is to provide a platform for such photographers both online and in print. In my view (and in the view of many), David Alan Harvey is a role model for all established photographers...he gives, he teaches...

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Great Photo Journalism

Photo © Nanna Kreutzmann/-All Rights ReservedGreat Photojournalism describes itself as an online free community of selected or invited members worldwide, where professional photojournalists from all over the world, display their work.The concept is by Sofus Comer, a Danish photojournalist himself, who confirms that each member has full editorship of...

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Flipbac Viewer

Here's an innovative product which piqued my interest when I stumbled across its website a few days ago. It's the Flipbac, an angle viewfinder and LCD screen protector for digital cameras. According to its website, the Flipbac accessory allows photographers to take photos "without kneeling, take candid portraits without hiding behind a camera, or...

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Canon 5D Mark II: Firmware Update

Canon has released updated firmware for the EOS 5D Mk II. Firmware v1.0.7 addresses the 'black dot' and vertical banding issues experienced by users of firmware 1.0.6. The latest version can be downloaded from Canon's website. The company also asks users to update their DPP and Picture Style Editor software.Via Digital Photography Rev...

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POV: A Tribute to Palestinian Photographers

Photo © Mahmud Hams/AFP-Getty-All Rights ReservedWe all see the wanton carnage and loss of innocent civilians in Gaza on our television screens, in newspapers and on the web. We also learn that the Israeli government has denied access to Gaza for the world’s media despite its country's Supreme Court ruling otherwise.The Foreign Press Association said...

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Cham! The Dancing Monks of Tamshing!

Image © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedHere's a recently produced audio slideshow titled Cham !! of the photographs I made during my October 2008 photo-expedition Land of the Druk Yul. The audio was recorded live while at the monastery of Tamshing in the religious heartland of Bhutan.For uploading to my website, I prefer to use large format images...

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PBS: The Story of India

Image © Callum Bulmer-All Rights ReservedYesterday's New York Times' reports that “The Story of India”, a six-hour, three-night mini-series will begin Monday on most PBS stations.The series is from the British historian Michael Wood, whose projects have included “Art of the Western World” and “Conquistadors.” I met Michael Wood in 2001 while photographing...

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Bhutan Photo Expedition: Candid Shot

Photo © Alicia Conde-All Rights ReservedI recently received an email from Alicia Conde, who's a photographer from Belgium I met on various occasions during our stops in Bhutan last October, and she kindly attached this photograph made in the Chorten Memorial in the capital city of Thimpu.It shows (right to left) Ugyen, one of the photo-expeditions...

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Marcus Bleasdale: Banker-Photojournalist

I just read an article in the UK's Telegraph on the photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale, and his change of career from banker to photographer. The article highlights how someone who clearly didn't feel comfortable in the world of finance moved towards the uncertain and dangerous life of a photojournalist involved in conflict.The article starts with this:"As...

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Lenovo ThinkPad W700: Mac Killer?

Photo courtesy LenovoLenovo is expected to announce the first significant update of its ThinkPad W700 laptop since it was introduced in the fall of 2008. Included in the new specs is an optional (which usually means more $$$) slide-out second screen in a model called W700ds, a more affordable quad core processor option, the ability to order the machine...

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Dai Sugano: Left Behind

Image © Dai Sugano/Mercury News-All Rights ReservedNative of Japan, Dai Sugano is an Emmy award winning photojournalist and senior multimedia editor at the San Jose Mercury News. He produced Left Behind, a powerful multimedia essay on the poverty-stricken of India, left behind in the wake of the country's economic growth.Dai co-created MercuryNewsPhoto.com...

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Canon 5D Mark II: Adding Copyright Data

I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon flipping the pages of my new 5D Mark II's manual, trying to figure out how to add a copyright notice and my name to its EXIF shooting data, with no success.A friend with infinite patience (and truth be told, doubly so because he's not a 5D Mark II owner) took the time to really read the relevant part of...

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NYT: Behind The Lens in Iraq #1

Photo © Max Becherer/Polaris-All Rights ReservedThe New York Times brings us an audio slideshow of a conversation with three veteran war photographers in Iraq: Joao Silva, Max Becherer and Franco Pagetti, three highly experienced photographers who have covered every phase of the Iraq conflict, and hosted by The New York Times’s Baghdad Correspondent...

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Eric Meola: India

The last few posts of 2008 on The Travel Photographer have been about misery...massacre in Gaza, circumcision of a sweet 7 year-old Kurdish girl, an orthopedic rehabilitation program in Afghanistan...so it's about time for a joyous post, and what better way to usher in 2009 than with the colorful (really colorful!) imagery of Eric Meola, and his new...

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