Christian Rodriguez | Xiếc (Vietnamese Circus)

Photo ©  Christian Rodriguez - All Rights Reserved I've always thought that circus performers had sad lives. Perhaps it was becasue of ...

Corentin Fohlen | Haiti's Karnaval

Photo ©  Corentin Fohlen | All Rights Reserved Every year in the small port of Jacmel, in the south of Haiti, the most important festival i...

Yvan Cohen | Chinese Opera

Photo © Yvan Cohen - All Rights Reserved I've been interested in Chinese opera for quite a while; way before watching Farewell My Concu...

Lee Cohen | A Three Hour Tour

A Three Hour Tour by Lee Cohen on Exposure The Circular Railway is a local commuter rail network that serves the Yangon (previously known ...

Jean-Claude Moschetti | Egunguns | Magic on Earth

Photo ©  Jean-Claude Moschetti - All Rights Reserved African spirituality, such as worship of ancestors and protective spirits, also include...

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...

Richard Atrero de Guzman | Sōma-Nomaoi

Photo ©  Richard Atrero de Guzman  (aka Bahag) - All Rights Reserved One of the great summer festivals of Japan’s northeastern Tōhoku region...

Dorie Hagler | Semana Santa

Photo © Dorie Hagler-All Rights Reserved To continue religious posts which I've added to my blog over the few past weeks, and to provide...

Viviana Peretti | Salaam Harlem

Photo ©  Viviana Peretti - All Rights Reserved Eid al-Fitr or the Islamic festival of breaking of the fast is imminent, and millions of Mus...

Mario Cruz | Modern Day Talibes

Photo ©  Mario Cruz | All Rights Reserved A few posts back, I featured the work of Indonesian photographer Ulet Ifansasti on an Islamic boa...

Ulet Ifansasti | City of God

Photo ©  Ulet Ifansasti -All Rights Reserved Many in the West have a skewed view of Islam and its 1.4 billion adherents, and much of the fau...

Nick Ng | Forgotten Faces of China

Photo © Nick Ng-All Rights Reserved I've been admiring Nick Ng's photography since I viewed his work on Chinese Opera, which I featu...

Mecca | Asif Khan | Roads & Kingdoms

Photo © Asif Khan- Courtesy Roads And Kingdoms With the advent of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, I thought it timely to feature an interest...

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...

Taylor Weideman | Poy Sang Long

© Taylor Weideman - Getty Images | Huffington Post Here's another festival I would love to photograph...so in the bucket list it goes. T...

Jorge Silva | Chinese Opera | Boston Globe

Photo © Jorge Silva - Courtesy The Boston Globe A recent photo essay appearing on  The Boston Globe's The Big Picture  got my attention ...

Eric Mencher | Tradition!

Photo © Eric Mencher-All Rights Reserved I ought to feature the work of photographers who work with iPhones more often on this blog, especia...

The Psychedelic World of Sudan's Sufis

Photo © Ala Kheir- Courtesy The Guardian ‘During dhikr, we fly to the heavens’ -  Ahmed Mohamed Alamin I am glad to have had the opportunity...

Mustafa Dedeoğlu | Ashura

Photo © Mustafa Dedeoğlu-All Rights Reserved I've seldom featured the work of Turkish photographers on this blog, but to redress this ov...

Enrico Martino | Believers

Photo © Enrico Martino-All Rights Reserved With the advent of 2016 and for the first blog post of the year, I thought I'd feature the pe...