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FacebookPhotographers who produce multimedia photo essays are notoriously voice-over calamities...flat, unfunny...you name it. I ought to know...I break into a cold sweat whenever I have to do a voice-over (which is rare).Audio will make or break a multimedia photo essay, so a lifeless or unattractive voice-over (when needed) will doom one's product. But here's a natural talent who ought to be employed as a voice-over artist by photographers, in radio or...
Sunday, July 31, 2011
BBC's Human Planet
The BBC's Human Planet is a landmark series that marvels at mankind's incredible relationship with nature in the world today. Each episode takes you to the extremes of the planet: the arctic, mountains, oceans, jungles, grasslands, deserts, rivers and even the urban jungle.A word of caution...exploring the Human Planet website will take you a while. I've barely scratched its surface so far.Human...
Nagore Sessions: Sufi Song
A recent article appearing in The New York Times on music used in some of the city's yoga centers led me to the Nagore Sessions. These are Sufi chants accompanied by percussion from the Middle East and contemporary Western instruments. While the musicians are from many different nationalities, faiths and backgrounds and came together to produce the Nagore Sessions, the singers (Abdul Ghani, Ajah Maideen and Sabur Maideen Babha Sabeer) are Sufis from...
Elizabeth Herman: Durga Puja
Photo © Elizabeth Herman-All Rights ReservedElizabeth Herman is a photographer and a recent graduate of Tufts University. She's currently residing in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where she is a Fulbright Fellow. At Tufts, Elizabeth intertwined her studies with her passion for photography through "Exposure", the Tufts’ student-led documentary studies group.Whilst in Dhaka, Elizabeth documented the annual Durga...
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Sophie Gerrard: The Coal Cycle Wallahs
"I load the bike then push it for 50 kilometers. It takes me 2 days."Here's The Coal Cycle Wallahs story; the work of Sophie Gerrard, a British freelance documentary photographer in the UK and India who specializes in environmental and social issues.The Coal Cycle Wallahs documents the impoverished men who haul coal along Jharkhand's steep and twisting forest roads. As the Indian Government owns all the resources under the land, these coal-wallahs...
Next Week On The Travel Photographer
What's on tap for the week starting Monday, January 3? Take a look:1. The work of a French photographer/photojournalist featuring Tibet and Kilimanjaro.2. A photomovie by a Scottish photographer...on the Coal Wallahs of India.3. The work of an emerging photographer on the Durga Puja.4. An interview with an award-winning photojournalist, along with his tips and techniques. Plus potential "shooting...
Friday, July 29, 2011
Four Photographers Document Cockfights
Here's a feature which groups individual photo essays of cockfighting by four photographers. I thought of grouping these essays, and also mention my own. Two of the cockfights occur in the Philippines, one in Haiti and the fourth occurs in Bali.Photo © Julie Batula-All Rights ReservedThe first photo essay is Julie Batula's One Way Out; a photo essay of black & white photographs of cockfighting...
End Of Year Photograph
Photo © Muhammed Muheisen/APThis is my 2116th post since I started The Travel Photographer blog, and with it I'd like to close 2010 with this lovely photograph by the very talented Muhammed Muheisen.It appeared on the LENS blog of the New York Times a few days ago, and it shows three young refugee girls; two from Afghanistan and the third from Pakistan, attending a Qur'an class in a mosque in Islamabad....
The 1000th Google Follower
Photo © Haleh Bryan-All Rights ReservedI was glad to see my Google followers have reached the 1000th mark yesterday, auguring well for The Travel Photographer's blog in 2011.The 1000th Google Follower is Haleh Bryan who publishes her own blog Haleh Bryan Photography which showcases her talented personal work. Apart from her art photography, she has a gallery of Egypt which the above image is fr...
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Marji Lang: Gujarat
Photo © Marji Lang-All Rights ReservedMarji Lang is a French travel and documentary photographer, whose color-full photographs in her India galleries just jump at you.She's fallen in love with India and has already traveled there four times. Over the past 10 years, Marji traveled in South East Asia, and was influenced by Henri Cartier Bresson and more recently by the work of her compatriot and Indiaphile...
Neil Wade: Kham & Amdo
Neil Wade is an editorial and corporate photographer based in Taipei, Taiwan. His photography was featured in varied magazines as National Geographic, Forbes, The Financial Times of London and Skateboarder. Kham is a region currently split between the Tibetan Autonomous Region and the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Qinghai. The people of Kham are reputed warriors. Many Khampas are members of the Bon religion; an esoteric branch of Tibetan...
Katharina Hesse: Human Negotiations (& Interview)
Katharina Hesse is a photographer who currently works in China and Asia, and has been based in Beijing for the past 17 years. She graduated in Chinese and Japanese studies from the Institut National des Langues et Civilizations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris.She has recently uploaded some of her gripping photographs of Bangkok's sex industry unto a 6 minutes-movie which she titled Human Negotiations (above), and during which she also talks about her...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
POV: Is This The Xmas Spirit?
AP Photo/Hussein Malla/ Courtesy Denver Post PBlogThe human genius in reducing religious and/or social events down to nauseating manifestations of mindless consumerism, bad taste and repulsive glitz is seemingly alive and well in all major cities, minor cities and wherever there's the need for marketing, selling and buying.However the 2010 award for the most loathsome display of this talent belongs...
Eric Kruszewski: Tibet
Eric Kruszewski is a Baltimore-native, who started traveling internationally in 2005. He is drawn to new cultures, faces, practices and daily life. His website features galleries from Tibet, Mongolia, India, Georgia, and closer to home, Alaska and the American West. Spend some time at Eric's Mongolia gallery, which has some nice photographs of the Naadam festival.The above photograph is of Tibetans...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The Travel Photographer's 2010 Favorite Image Makers (Part 2)
Following yesterday's post, here are the second 5 of the 10 travel and/or documentary photographers (listed in no particular order) whose work was posted on this blog, and whose photographs were my favorites during 2010. As I said, deciding which is a visual favorite amongst the hundreds of photographers I've shown here in this blog is a highly subjective and personal choice...nothing more or less....
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