Teaser

Yep...we're on a roll. All this will be announced soon on this blog, and via newsletter. Hold your breat

Gali Tibbon: Jerusalem

Photo © Gali Tibbon-All Rights ReservedI like Gali Tibbon's work a lot, and her focus on faith-related reportage resonates with me. I found her interview (below) to showcase her images much better than on her website. She's an independent photographer

Paul Patrick: African Witches

Photo © Paul Patrick-All Rights ReservedPeople in eastern, southern, and western Africa generally believe in witches, both male and female, and Paul Patrick, a Norwegian photojournalist, was able to document them in Ghana. He started traveling at the

Charles Pertwee: The Khumbu

Photo © Charles Pertwee-All Rights ReservedCharles Pertwee is a photojournalist, known for his reportage in crisis stricken locations such as Banda Aceh and Afghanistan. He graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London with a degree

Dennis Cordell: Buddhist Monks

Photo © Dennis Cordell-All Rights Reserved383...that's the number of square format black & white portraits of Buddhist monks (and a few sadhus) that Dennis Cordell is exhibiting on his website; all made with a film Hasselblad which he prefers to

NPR: Cairo And The "Disconnected"

This touches on photography/multimedia only tangentially, so unless you're into Middle Eastern-international politics, you may want to skip all the stuff below and just click on the movie.A number of media outlets are gingerly covering Egypt's political

VII: Franco Pagetti: Afghanistan's Agony

The exciting VII The Magazine features Afghanistan' Agony, the multimedia work of Franco Pagetti which combines movies, stills in both color and black & white.Although I'm getting tired of war stories and its imagery, Pagetti manages to infuse this

Books By Participants In TTP's Photo~Expeditions™

A few weeks ago, I wished here that more of the participants who join my photo~expeditions would, not only feature their work on their websites as most do already, but also publish their images in book form. It's not an easy task to prep and publish

Thanksgiving Wishes

All the best from The Travel Photographer on this Thanksgiving Day! There may not be a post tomorrow...I'll be flying back to New York, probably feeling very fu

Black Friday: Get My Book!!!

On this Black Friday, my new photo book Bali: Island of Gods is still available from Blurb. You can choose between two main versions of the book (82 pages of black & white photographs): one is a large (13x11 inches) landscape hardcover version and

Kares Le Roy: Tibet & More

Here's the photographic work of Kares Le Roy, a French photographer and graphic designer. Unfortunately, his bio is very limited on his web site, but he traveled and photographed in Tibet, Nepal, India, Bali, Cuba, Cambodia and Morocco...returning with

Apratim Saha: Varanasi

Apratim Saha is both a pharmaceutical executive and a photographer, whose work has been featured in the National Geographic and other publications. He's also a contributor to NationalGeographicStock.comWhile I've liked Apratim's Varanasi gallery in which

Michelle Frankfurter: Destino

Photo © Michelle Frankfurter- All Rights ReservedHaving read Cormac McCarthy’s, The Crossing, Michelle Frankfurter started to photograph along the US-Mexico border, and focuses her photo essay Destino featured on Burn magazine on undocumented Central

Next Week on The Travel Photographer

For the week starting Monday November 21,  the following posts are in the pipeline:1. The work of a part-time Indian photographer with multi galleries, including one on Varanasi.2. A Vietnamese photographer's gallery of Vietnam's daily life. I didn't

Raphael Nguyen: Vietnam

Photo © Raphael Nguyen-All Rights ReservedPhoto © Raphael Nguyen-All Rights ReservedRaphael Nguyen is a French-Vietnamese photographer, who moved to Vietnam in 1999. He lived Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and finally in Hoi An in the very center of the country.

POV: Weeding The Subscribers: It's Time Again

It's the time of year when I have to start weeding (a more delicate term than 'purge') inactive subscribers from my newsletter mailing list. I have to do this about twice a year now.Campaign Monitor tracks the number of newsletters opens for each subscriber,

Win A Copy of "To Cambodia With Love"

I have a bunch of copies of To Cambodia With Love....the travel guidebook to Cambodia with some of my photographs. These will be given out as prizes to 5 readers of The Travel Photographer blog who correctly answer the three following questions. 

The Big Picture: National Geo Contest 2010

Photo © Ario Wibisono-All Rights ReservedThe Boston Globe's photo blog The Big Picture is showing off some of the submissions to The National Geographic annual  photo contest. The deadline for the submissions is November 30. The Big Picture editor

Olivier Laban-Mattei: Award Winner Paris Match

Photo © Olivier Laban-Mattei- All Rights Reserved Olivier Laban-Mattei was awarded the 2010 Grand Prix Paris Match for his recent coverage of Haiti. This prize was created in 1980 and all French professional photographers can compete. Every two

Paul Kowlow: Japan (and Geishas)

Photo © Paul Kowalow-All Rights ReservedPaul Kowalow's website on Zenfolio is sparse with his biographical details, but I thought I'd nevertheless feature his work of Japan here. You'll see that his gallery of Japan has a large number of portraits of

My Book: Bali Island of Gods: Now Available

I'm excited to announce that my new photo book Bali: Island of Gods is now available from Blurb. There are two main versions of the book (82 pages of black & white photographs) on Blurb's bookstore. A large (13x11 inches) landscape hardcover version

Dan Bannister: East Africa

Photo © Dan Bannister -All Rights ReservedDan Bannister is a commercial, industrial and editorial photographer based in Calgary, Canada, who having joined my recent Bhutan: Land of the Druk Yul Photo~Expedition™ last year, recently traveled to East Africa

Reuters: Best of the Year Photojournalism

Photo © Adrees Latif/ReutersIt seems that we're at the time of year when many of the news magazines, and large photo-blogs will soon be featuring their "best of the year" photographs. The first of the bunch is Reuters which is showcasing some 55 photographs.Reuters

Eid El-Adha

Photo © Muhammed Muheisen/AP (courtesy Lens Blog New York Times)Muslims around the world are celebrating the Eid El-Adha or  the"Festival of Sacrifice" in commemoration of the belief that Ibrahim (Abraham) was willing to sacrifice his son Ismail