The Travel Photographer's Chinoiserie Phase

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy - All Rights Reserved Chinoiserie (from ' chinois ' the French for Chinese) is a style inspired by art and de...

Experimenting With The Fuji GFX50s

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy - All Rights Reserved I had been ruminating getting involved with medium format photography for quite some time. In f...

POV : Photojournalism's Uncertain Future

The New York Times recently featured two articles concerning the future of photojournalism, through interviews with Donald R. Winslow (edit...

POV: NYC's Asia Society & The Age of Ignorance

Readers and followers of The Travel Photographer blog are probably well aware of my immense disappointment at the inertia demonstrated by th...

The Travel Photographer Is 10 Years Old !

The first blog post   Shakespeare  wrote   “...the   swiftest   hours,  observed  as   they   flew...”   And indeed, the ten years since I s...

POV: Asia Society's "Tin Ear"

As readers of this blog know, I spent the better part of the past two years on a wonderful project documenting/photographing/researching the...

POV : Can The X-Pro2 Do The Job Of The GFX 50S ?

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy - All Rights Reserved (X-Pro2 + 16-55mm) I am not an impulse buyer, not do I have the dreaded (or lauded) Gear Acquis...

The Mother Goddesses Tradition | UNESCO

The Việt beliefs in the Mother Goddesses of Three Realms, also known as Đạo Mẫu, was inscribed  on December 1, 2016 on the Representative Li...

My Book's Back Story | The Spirit Mediums of Viet Nam

All Photographs © 2016 Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved I remember  September 12, 2014 very well. I was in Sa Pa, the famous hill station...

POV : Say No To Cheap "Parachute" Photographers

A recent article (or a post) in the Hanoi Grapevine caught my attention, and aroused my ire. It appears that an American photographer is see...

POV: Visual Storyteller | Fact or Fiction?

"....so I would say that today I am a visual storyteller..." The Steve McCurry controversy rages on, unmitigated by his recent sta...

Book Trailer: Hầu Đồng: The Spirit Mediums of Viet Nam

Here's a trailer of my work in progress book project; Hầu Đồng: The Spirit Mediums of Viet Nam, on which I've been working for the p...

POV: Retouching Photographs

Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy- All Rights Reserved Since starting on my photography trajectory some 15 years ago, I've been consistently adaman...