Thaipusam Festival In Singapore | Hendra Lauw

Here's an interesting and compelling slideshow on Thaipusam, the Hindu festival celebrated mostly by the Tamil community during January ...

NEOCHA | The Puppets of Myanmar

Photo © Chan Qu | Courtesy NEOCHA  The string puppets of Myanmar (previously known as Burma) are called Yoke Thé ( meaning "miniatures...

Souvid Datta | India's Fading Musical Tribes

Photo © Souvid Datta - All Rights Reserved One easily falls head over heels for India. No question about it. It happened to me in 1998, and ...

Berta Tilmantaitė | Burma - Myanmar

Photo © Berta Tilmantaitė -All Rights Reserved I am saddened by the recent news of a major earthquake affecting Myanmar, and at the loss of ...

Hầu Bóng | The Cult of The Immoral

I found this fascinating short movie on my Facebook timeline. The many readers of my blog know of the recent publication of my book Hầu Đồng...

Shiho Fukada | The Samurai of Fukushima

Photo © Shiho Fukada - Courtesy Bloomberg Here's another photo essay on the Sōma-Nomaoi festival by photojournalist Shiho Fukada as fea...

The Puppeteer of Monipally | Untold

Photo Courtesy of Untold The portal website of Untold is a veritable trove of photo stories of endangered traditions and art forms of India,...

Hầu Đồng : The Spirit Mediums of Viet Nam

The highly anticipated photo book Hầu Đồng : The Spirit Mediums of Viet Nam will soon be available to coincide with the inclusion of this an...

The Old China Cafe

I've spent just over a week in Kuala Lumpur to participate in Travel Photographer Asia 2016  during which I gave a no-spin phototalk on ...

Visual Storytelling | Foundry Photojournalism Workshop

During the 2015 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in Bali, I was pleased to join seven renowned instructors who spoke with PhotoWings about...

Nomads of Mongolia | Brandon Li

With the temperature in New York City in the teens today, I thought I'd feature a documentary about the Nomads of Mongolia  by Brandon L...

The Fortune Teller Told Me | Nguyễn Ngọc Vi

As readers of this blog probably know, I'm immersed in a personal photographic project documenting the Spirit Mediums of Vietnam; a proj...

Anthony Pond | Entranced

Photo © Anthony Pond-All Rights Reserved It is said that in Varanasi one has to watch out for four things: young and beautiful widows, cows ...

The Last Qawwal By Kaushik Ghosh

I had the privilege of meeting Ustaad Meeraj a few years ago with my good friend and fellow photographer Dr. Kaushik Ghosh. Unfortunately, U...

Juan Pablo Ampudia | Love Me

Here is one of the better multimedia/photographic work I've seen coming out of the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop since its inception,...