Travel & Humanitarian Photos
Sitting in the quiet village square in China, I’m enjoying and appreciating a fresh pot of pu’er tea, something of a tradition in this part of the world. The thing with pu’er tea is that is improves the more you drink it. The first cup out of the pot is discarded, being too bitter. The [...]
This town is going to be a highlight of the trip. I know that as soon as I step out of the car and cast my eyes up and down the quiet street, stretching after the three-hour drive. Immediately, I get a sense of a serene ambience, not the eery quiet of a neglected town [...]
As part of my current assignment in China, I was fortunate to be invited to visit the home of one of China’s most celebrated traditional artists. At first glance, these may look like very delicate drawings of characters from Chinese folklore. However, they’re actually incredibly intricate paper cuttings, cut painstakingly from red paper and set [...]
And, just to prove that I wasn’t exaggerating earlier in the week, here are a few quick photographs taken yesterday in a charming Chinese village, which will remain nameless The instant prints that these wonderfully hospitable people are holding were taken with a Fujifilm Instant Mini 505 camera. The Calligrapher’s Friend The friendly monk, 80 [...]
The vocabulary of photography reveals a truth that we would all do well to heed. We might “take” pictures, “grab” frames, some of you might even “capture” or “steal” a quick photograph from time to time. That one-sided result is one that Roman philosopher Seneca would have disapproved of. He said, no doubt predicting that [...]
The kids from this school in Siem Reap, Cambodia and I had great fun turning the LCD screen of a Canon EOS camera into a mini movie screen. They really couldn’t get enough of seeing and hearing themselves and, once they’d got the hang of it, went about filling up a 16Gb memory card with [...]
When I speak to people who live in China they often talk about the balancing act that the country is facing – trying to protect the traditional whilst allowing room for the modern. That juxtaposition is very evident in the ancient – and modern – city of Kunming, in Yunnan. Downtown Kunming has room for [...]
Want your photographs to convey a sense of motion, a feeling of energy, of movement and momentum? You’ve got to take a deep breath and take the plunge, switch to Shutter Priority and twirl that dial until the shutter speed reading gets down to tenths of a second, or slower… Here are a small selection [...]
Visitors to Ta Phrom, the mystical temple in the jungle near Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, are understandably captivated by the sight of the ruined walls amidst the giant silk-cotton trees. However, whilst visitors aim cameras towards the crumbing Khmer walls that intertwine with the formidable trunks, one or two of us might be fortunate [...]
I’ve recently returned from an assignment in Cambodia, working for A Child’s Right. You may remember that I worked for the NGO in Nepal recently and seeing the work that they have done in Siem Reap really reinforced what a wide-spread and worrying problem the availability – or lack – of clean, fresh water is. [...]