123rd Officer Cadet Training Regiment, Royal Artillery, 1942
A group portrait of the R.A. from 1942, an inauspicious time to go through training
Eugen Baraga university records, Slovenia, 1919-20
I chanced upon the records of one of the first students ever to attend the University of Ljubljana
Young man with pitchfork, Studio Maignet, Paris, date unknown
I collect old portrait cards all over the world but it was the semiotics of this one that intrigued me
Warrior-gymnasts in Tonkin, Vietnam, 1909
French overlords in colonial-era Vietnam make the locals do ridiculous things
My family in central Turkey, 1948
A nothing moment on their travels that seems to capture a life now lost
Focus Festival returns to Mumbai with a video from my previous exhibit
A new video includes photographs I exhibited in Mumbai two years ago
My shoot in the Sundarbans near Calcutta
Going off-road and off-grid to document an NGO’s work in West Bengal
The ancient theater in Sabratha, Libya
Anarchy in post-Gaddafi Libya sends me into storage to find photos I took on my trip there in 2004
Take a walk in Berlin a century ago
A film of early-20th century life in the German capital so vivid it will feel like you’ve visited
On the Mario Testino exhibit in Buenos Aires
In Mario Testino’s work everyone always looks like they’re having fun
Susanita in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, 1914
A too-grown-up girl bearing a Diane Arbus expression a century ago on an Argentine beach
Boat expedition possibly on Lake Titicaca, Peru, c1940s
On a lake in Peru, all the elements came together in a near perfect composition
Portrait of a boy, Paris, early-20th C
A magnificent portrait found in Paris leads to two legendary photographers
Indian studio portraits, 20th century
Trolling the markets of Bombay and Delhi for compelling portraits of ordinary citizens
My exhibit at the Hermès gallery in Bombay
The response was even better than I could have hoped at Bombay’s first-ever photography festival
An upcoming exhibit of my photographs in Mumbai, India
Prints and an unusual still/motion projection about how urban space around the world is inhabited
In Paris, this photo is illegal
Street photography is against the law in the place in which it was born
Horst Faas: the man who shot the Vietnam War
Many of the photos we know from the Vietnam War are due to Horst Faas, even ones he didn’t shoot
Photographing Cusco and the Sacred Valley in Peru
From Machu Picchu to the salt ponds of Salineras and the procession of the Virgen del Rosario
The New York Times opens up its photo morgue
The coolest thing? The backs of the prints. The most surprising? The site is on Tumblr
Unseen Robert Frank photos at the New York Times
Promoting the New York Times on the eve of Robert Frank’s landmark book, ‘The Americans’
The Atlantic opens our eyes to the American Civil War
The US Capitol building under construction and a country tearing itself apart