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FacebookIn London I've watched the French movie Il y'a Longtemps Que Je T'aime (or I've Loved You So Long), and was totally enthralled by the virtuoso performance of Kristin Scott Thomas. I don't want to divulge anything of the plot, except that her performance deserves an Oscar and, along with Couscous, this film reignited my love for the cinema. Why can't Hollywood produce cinematic gems like these two instead of its usual fare of infantile "blockbusters"?...
Friday, October 31, 2008
Foundry Photo Workshop 2009
Eric Beecroft and his team have just announced that the second Foundry Photo Workshop will be held in Manali, Manali-Kulu Valleys, Himachal Pradesh, Indian Himalaya from 26 July - 1 August 2009.This second Foundry Photo Workshop will follow the extraordinarily successful workshop which was held in Mexicio City in June 2008.Many of the original instructors have confirmed their participation. These...
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Praful Rao: Of Monasteries & Men
Photograph © Praful Rao-All Rights ReservedI had the pleasure of meeting Praful Rao in Thimpu, Bhutan which he was visiting at the same time I was there. Praful is a self taught photographer whose passion for photography spans his lifetime. He describes himself as a generalist, choosing to capture whatever catches his eye or creating photographs from impromptu themes conjured in his mind. While most...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
A Tale of Two Bags
A month ago, as I was retrieving my checked-in bag at Heathrow (I've stopped over in London from New York, en route to Bangkok then on to Paro, Bhutan), I thought something wasn't quite right but in a hurry to get a cab, it's only later that I saw that my TSA-approved lock was missing.I unzipped my bag and saw that someone had opened all my zipped-up pouches holding chargers, batteries, cables, a...
Shiho Fukada: E&P Winner
Photograph © Shiho Fukada-All Rights ReservedEditor & Publisher has just announced its 9th Annual Photos of the Year winners. Shiho Fukada, won the grand prize for her work in The New York Times covering the May 2008 earthquake in Sichuan Province, China. The Travel Photographer offers its congratulations to Ms Fukada for the well-deserved award.An outstanding photographer, Shiho Fukada has been...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Lourdes Segade: Bhutan & Nepal
Photograph © Lourdes Segade/All Rights ReservedLourdes Segade is a Spanish photojournalist, based in Barcelona. Her work is often seen in Spain, where she publishes in Sunday newspaper supplements such as La Vanguardia Magazine or El Semanal, and in other magazines such as Yo Dona or Revista, of La Vanguardia newspaper or other publications, like DAMn, The New York Times and the IHT.She has shown...
Foto Week DC: Nov 11-22, 2008
A week long celebration of photography is scheduled for November 15-22, and will mark the launch of FotoWeek DC, the first annual gathering of a diverse and wide-ranging photography community in the nation’s capital, including photographers, museums, universities and all those involved in the profession across the metro D.C. area, including Virginia and Maryland. FotoWeek DC seeks to bring together...
Monday, October 27, 2008
Bhutan Photo Expedition: Novice & Dahlias
Photograph © Tewfic El-Sawy/All Rights ReservedHere's a photograph made at the Dechen Phadrang monastic school in Thimpu. We had the necessary permit to visit the school, and spent a number of hours photographing and interacting with the novitiates. The photograph is obviously posed, and I chose a spot at the school's lakhang where the light was just right.The novitiates involved in the photo shoot...
David Lang: Street Photographers
Photograph © David Lang/All Rights ReservedDavid Lang worked in New York City for a well-known photographer specializing in portraits and celebrity shoots, but moved on to work for the International Organization for Migration. He documented the organization's relief efforts following the tsunami in Sri Lanka. He also worked with UNICEF in the Maldives, and Internews in Pakistan.David has an interesting...
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Bhutan Photo Expedition: Taktshang
Photograph © Tewfic El-Sawy/All Rights ReservedYech! Britain has now switched to Winter Time, and it'll get darker earlier from now on. The weather forecast calls for rain...so it'll be a miserable Sunday. Perhaps it's a message from the gods that I ought to stay in and start reviewing my thousands of images from Bhutan, process them and put Lightroom 2.1 through its paces. Here's a photograph (a...
John Stanmeyer on Malaria Project
John Stanmeyer is a co-founding member of VII, and works regularly on assignment with National Geographic magazine. Here's is a recent interview (via Canon Professional Network) of him discussing his latest long-term assignment with the magazine, involving the global scope of malaria. A thoughtful interview with one of my favorite photographers...John Stanmeyer's Malaria .This blog has previously...
Saturday, October 25, 2008
NYT: Roots Of Faith & Strife
Photograph © Rina Castelnuovo/The New York TimesThe New York Times featured a slideshow of Rina Castelnuovo's photographs of Joseph’s Tomb, a stone compound in the heart of Nablus that "many Jews believe is the final burial place of the son of Jacob, the biblical patriarch." The accompanying article is by Isabel Kershner.The article reports that ardent and devout Jewish pilgrims, accompanied by Israeli...
Photo Plus Expo in New York City
Although I'm still in London, I ought to acknowledge the self-proclaimed "Most Important Event in Photography: October 23-25, 2008" in New York City's Javits Center. Frankly, I wouldn't attend it even if I were there, since it's a sort of convention-like event that showcases new products that I'll eventually read of on the internet. Unless I were to specifically meet other similarly-minded photographers,...
Friday, October 24, 2008
Jehad Nga: Master of Chiaroscuro
Photograph © Jehad Nga/All Rights ReservedOne of my favorite photographers, Jehad Nga, has just launched his website...in my estimation a master of the chiaroscuro (the contrast between light and dark), Jehad Nga was born in Kansas, but moved when young to Libya and then to London, where he was raised. In his early 20s and living in Los Angeles, he discovered a book by photographer Natasha Merritt....
Bhutan Photo Expedition: Just Because
Photograph © Tewfic El-Sawy/All Rights ReservedI found this photograph amongst the thousands I made during the Tamshing Lakhang tsechu during my photo expedition Land of the Druk Yul. It appeals to me just because there's a human story unfolding here...unfortunately, I was whisked away to another spot before I could find out whether this was a monk greeting his wife and child, or whether he was the...
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Adriana Zehbrauskas: Daily Life Mexico
Photograph © Adriana Zehbrauskas/All Rights ReservedAdriana Zehbrauskas is a Brazilian photographer/photojournalist, currently living in Mexico City. She received her degree in Journalism in 1989 and then moved to Paris where she studied Linguistics and Phonetics at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. Adriana worked as a staff photographer for Folha de Sao Paulo for 11 years, traveling extensively throughout...
TOP's Canon G10 Review
The Online Photographer blog has a recent review of the Canon G10 by Edward Taylor, which is interesting on many levels. I'm in the market for what the article/post calls a DMD (Decisive Moment Digital) camera...in other words, a small camera that is easily portable and that can deliver a near-DSLR quality image, and one that I can use for whenever I get a street photography whimsy attack. The dilemma...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Bhutan Photo Expedition: Le "Chimping"
Photograph © Gavin Gough/All Rights ReservedHere's a Soundslides candid behind the scenes look at the going-ons during the Bhutan: Land of the Druk Yul photo expedition. All photographs are courtesy and copyright of Gavin Gough (those of him are obviously not...unless they were self-taken).As can be seen from the above photo capture, we were singularly adept at the art of chimping during the Thangbi...
Book: Monumental India
As is my habit when I'm in London, I dropped by the High Street Kensington branch of Waterstones to browse its offerings of travel photography books. In the middle of a wobbly table, there was a large brick-colored sleeve enveloping The Monumental India Book by photographer Amit Pasricha, with an introduction by William Dalrymple...an Indiaphile and a damn good writer as well. Glancing at the price...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Bhutan: Land of Druk Yul Expedition
Photograph © Tewfic El-Sawy/All Rights ReservedHere's one of the many images I made at the Tamshing Lakhang during the Tamshingphala festival in Bumthang, Bhutan. This was one of the festivals or tsechus on my Land of Druk Yul photo expedition's itinerary. It is of a young monk practicing with a conch shell before one of the festival's dances. The conch is used in Tibetan Buddhism to call together...
The 37th Frame
Pete Marovich, a photojournalist based in Harrisonburg, Virginia has started The 37th Frame a few weeks ago. The site seeks to bring to its readers the best of photojournalism and photography on the internet, by searching web sites of newspapers, magazines and independent photographers around the world, and posting links to the work.Marovich states that his objective is to create a central place where...
Another Me Project
Photograph © Achinto BhadraThe Terre des hommes Foundation (Lausanne, Switzerland) conceived the Another Me project in which the documentary photographer Achinto Bhadra and counselor Harleen Walia guided 126 girls and women through a healing journey of psychological transformation. Achinto’s portraits record trafficking survivors’ imaginative visions of themselves as human, animistic and divine beings...
DenverPost.com: Sukkot
Photograph AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh-All Rights ReservedThe Denver Post is another of the newspapers adopting large format images for its Captured Photo Blog of photo galleries, multimedia and video. While many of its features are of Colorado, it also offers international coverage such as the festival of Sukkot, which occurs during the latter two weeks of October in 2008. This Jewish festival commemorates...
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Verdict: Bhutan Land of the Druk Yul
Photograph Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedAfter almost 3 weeks of not posting, getting back in the "groove" is not as easy as I thought it would be, but what better way to restart this blog's activity than by writing on the results of my photo expedition in the Land of the Druk Yul.All of the festivals we photographed at were regional (or less), since I make it a point not to bother with the large...
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