Chau Doc Vietnam

Chau Doc on the edge of the Mekong Delta is the stepping stone to Vietnam for travellers arriving from Cambodia. We arrived on the back of motorbikes that had collected us at the Cambodia/Vietnam border near the town of Tinh Bien which is 30km from Chau Doc (see Vietnam-Cambodia border crossings). They dropped us at the very nice Trung Nguyen Hotel which overlooks the main...

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Can Tho Vietnam

Can Tho bus station is only 1km outside the town centre yet we arrived from Chau Doc (3 hours for $5 via Long Xuyen) on a bus with no other passengers that went to another bus station some 6km from the centre. From here we took a Xe Loi (motorbike with trailor) back to the town centre. Accommodation in Can ThoWe made our way to the Hoa Binh Hotel which was very run down with...

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Sarah Leen: NGM: POYi

Image © Jonas Bendiksen-All Rights ReservedThe 65th Annual Pictures of the Year International ("POYi") competition which is currently being judged has announced Sarah Leen/National Geographic as the first prize winner in the Magazine Picture Editing Portfolio section, with Jonas Bendiksen's photo essay on Dharavi, a slum called Mumbai's shadow city.In my view, this is a deserved...

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Kloie Picot: Hidden In Plain Sight Benefit

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: A Benefit for Iraqi and Palestinian Refugees is put together by Kloie Picot, and is a worthwhile benefit for Iraqi and Palestinian refugees, one that she hopes will raise awareness of their plight. All proceeds will go to CROSSING LINES, a non-profit Ms. Picot is establishing to provide language, job training and other skills to refugees.The important worthwhile...

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TTP Recap of the Week

For your convenience, here's the past week's (March 3-9, 2008) most read posts on TTP: Celebrity Photographers' Tours. This topic is consistently popular!NGM: Annie Griffiths BeltLa Guelague...

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Magnum Photos: China

Magnum Photos' In Motion just featured a Flipbook on China which takes a look at 60 years of transformation in this enormous country from Magnum's archives. The photographs are from legendary names such as Henri Cartier Bresson, Eve Arnold, Bruno Barbey and Paolo Pellegrin to name but a few.Magnum Photos' Flipbook: Ch...

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NYT: In the Land of Black Coats

Image © Gianni Cipriano for NY Times-All Rights ReservedCentral Brooklyn in New York City is the land of the Black Coats...specifically 55th Street in the center of Borough Park which is home to a quarter million Orthodox Jews, the largest concentration of Jews outside Israel.The slideshow is of atmospheric black & white photographs by Gianni Cipriano, and accompanies a short...

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Celebrity Photographers' Tours

Image © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedI found another example of what I deem to be an over-the-top photo tour led by a celebrity photographer to a developed country in South-East Asia, so I thought I'd share my 'back of the envelope' ruminations about the economics (or lack thereof) of joining such a photo tour. Let me say this at the outset: the photo tour is no workshop...just...

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Beyond The Frame: Stilt Fishermen

Image © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedIt's been a while since I posted an image in a Beyond The Frame context, so here's one of the famed stilt fishermen in Sri Lanka. Stilt fishing is a strange technique of fishing where fishermen wade out to poles embedded in the seabed. The origins of this unusual technique (I don't think it's used anywhere else in the world) are unknown,...

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Matt Brandon: Sumatra

Image © Matt Brandon-All Rights ReservedMatt Brandon over at the Digital Trekker just returned from an assignment in Sumatra, and has great portraits to share with us. He traveled to the small community of Sekayu in Sumatra, which is populated by a community of friendly and welcoming Muslim people called the Musi. They live up and down the Musi River that flows through their territory...

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Matt Brandon: Sumatra

Image © Matt Brandon-All Rights ReservedMatt Brandon over at the Digital Trekker just returned from an assignment in Sumatra, and has great portraits to share with us. He traveled to the small community of Sekayu in Sumatra, which is populated by a community of friendly and welcoming Muslim people called the Musi. They live up and down the Musi River that flows through their territory...

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La Guelaguetza: Oaxaca's Dance

Image © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedWhile in Oaxaca, I photographed a couple of lively Guelaguetza performances and uploaded some of the results on to a website. The dances are a form of celebration that dates back to pre-Columbian times and which remain a defining characteristic of Oaxacan culture. Its origins relate to the worship of corn as a mainstay staple of the Oaxacan...

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La Guelaguetza: Oaxaca's Dance

Image © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedWhile in Oaxaca, I photographed a couple of lively Guelaguetza performances and uploaded some of the results on to a website. The dances are a form of celebration that dates back to pre-Columbian times and which remain a defining characteristic of Oaxacan culture. Its origins relate to the worship of corn as a mainstay staple of the Oaxacan...

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