Travel & Humanitarian Photos
(A Journal extract) There’s a bruise on the inside of my right leg which is slowly turning purple. Each day it grows more colourful and increasingly tender. Let nobody say that I don’t suffer for my art. The bruise is the result of numerous unsuccessful attempts to kick-start this beautiful but tortuously heavy 30 year-old [...]
Holi is a time of indulgence, a time to abandon the usual gender rules and restrictions, a time when the familiar constraints of social etiquette give way to exuberant, energetic and exhilarating celebrations. It’s a full-on, non-stop, free-for-all where the standard rules of engagement are abandoned. Holi is not for the faint-hearted. Research before leaving [...]
Camel traders at the Pushkar Camel Fair Sometimes the details can reveal even more about a subject Gypsy girls with more than their fair share of attitude dress up and roam the fairground looking for tourists to accost with their plea of “One photo?”. Early morning at the festival ground It’s sometimes possible to recruit [...]
I’m in Jaipur today, packing in readiness for the evening train to Delhi. There’s just time to send you this quick postcard from Pushkar, where the following things happened: 1. It rained. For the first time during the Camel Fair for 25 years. 2. It rained a lot! 3. I hadn’t planned on meeting Nevada [...]
“For students who are grappling with the process of learning how to photograph people, there are two possibilities. You can look someone in the eye and be calm and smile and be sincere with them, and then they have a choice: to either allow you to make a photograph or not. But one way or [...]
A list of camera gear being prepared for a trip to India and Nepal
The second day in Delhi and the day before the official start date for the tour gave us the opportunity to visit two of my favourite locations in Delhi: The Bangla Sahib Gurdwara and Nizammudin Darga
Matt Brandon and I haven’t even officially started our Kumbh Mela Photo Expedition yet – the team are still on their way to Delhi from various parts of the globe – but we’re already loving being back in India and feeling that this is going to be a rich and rewarding experience.
Mitchell Kanashkevich has found a gorgeous tea-shack in Kollam, Kerala and photographed it and its patrons beautifully. Lovely compositions, honey-coloured light and effervescent colours all combine to make some beautifully evocative photographs. My favourite photos are almost inevitably ones that give me a strong desire to visit the place shown in the photo. When I [...]
The first free desktop wallpaper of the year shows the often overlooked Humayun’s Tomb in Nizamuddin, Delhi, India. Humayun’s Tomb has similar Mughal stylings to the Taj Mahal although its construction was completed over sixty years before Shah Jahan began to sketch out plans for his monument to enduring love. If you ever visit Delhi [...]
There’s no such thing as bad publicity they say. If that’s true then the publishers of India Vogue must be delighted with the reception that their latest edition is receiving around the world. Vogue have published a 16-page photo spread featuring luxury designer clothing items, modelled not by the skinny models that we’re used to [...]
My free desktop wallpaper for September shows the Bahá’í Lotus temple in New Delhi, India. The temple is one of the most impressive structures I’ve ever seen and no trip to New Delhi would be complete without paying it a visit. It’s constructed from 27 free-standing marble “petals” and has an interior that really makes [...]
