Stories about Photography from July, 2007
Kyrgyzstan: Issyk-Kul
morrire posts pictures from her visit to the southern shore of Issyk-Kul, one of the biggest high-altitude lakes in the world – and favourite holiday destination for Kyrgyzstani citizens.
Peru: Photos of an Amazonian Market
Alejandro from Peru Food blog posts photos of an Amazon market in the small town of Nauta, which is located 100 km from Iquitos.
Kuwait: Pictures, Sights and Events
Kuwaiti bloggers are leaping into action, discovering their surroundings, attending events and covering them, keeping tabs on the latest developments on the arrest of the Monster of Hawali and looking for racial slurs on the shelves of supermarkets. Read this post by Abdullatif Al Omar to see what else is happening.
Russia: Gorbachev & Louis Vuitton
Sean's Russia Blog writes on Mikhail Gorbachev's new role: a model for Louis Vuitton ads, photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
Jordan: Picture Stories
Ohoud from Jordan explains to us why a picture tells a thousand tales here.
American Blogger in the land of “Down with USA”
View from Iran has always been a very attractive blog for me. An American blogger based in Iran writes about her daily experiences in the land of “down with America”. Tori Egherman, the American blogger, has now left Iran. She and her husband have just published a book of photos...
D. R. of Congo: Miracle-peddlars, musical hippos and scary lightbulbs
Probably the most consistently interesting Congolese blog is kept by Cédric Kalonji [Fr], whose photographs and commentary bear humorous but often sorrowful witness to the struggles of ordinary life in Kinshasa, the country's heavily populated, run-down capital. Returning from a recent visit to Europe, Cédric found himself wondering whether the...
Tajikistan: Buzkashi
Men on horseback playing a football-like game with a goat carcass instead of a ball? Erik Petersson took some breathtaking photos during a Buzkashi game in Tajikistan.
China: Blogging summer floods
As floods continue to rise up across China this summer, leaving hundreds dead and millions fleeing from their homes, citizen reporter bloggers in China have been keeping a close eye on the developments.
Kyrgyzstan: Wedding season
Kyrgyzstani couples choose the summer months to get married. As the ceremonies portrayed by bloggers are mostly Western in style, they convey a different, somewhat "non-exotic" image of the landlocked Central Asian republic. From white doves to violins, the Kyrgyzstani dream wedding seems above all one thing: expensive!
Russia: Lenin Photos
Darkness at Noon shares his 7-year-old collection of Lenin photos.
India: A temple by the River
Windy Skies shares memories and photographs of a Shiva temple by the Bhima – a tributary of the River Krishna.
Iran:Photos and Tehran
Thanks to Mr.Behi we find a great collection of photos from Tehran:streets,people,museums,parks and…
India: Cambodia and Food
Trivial Matters has a wonderful photo-post on Cambodia and food.
Kuwait: Food for Thoughts
An Indian in Kuwait had food on his mind when he posted this picture on his blog.
Russia: Sakhalin Photos
Oleg Klimov posts some photos from Sakhalin.
Nepal: In Kathmandu
Teesra Pahiya on driving in an autorickshaw through Kathmandu.
South Korea: nationalist photoshopping
Japan netizen found out some South Korea newspapers had done a nationalist photoshopping by erasing the Japanese National flag of a news photo – James from Japan Probe.
Iran:Great photos from an international photographer
Nasrollah Kasraian,an international photographer, has just launched his personal site where you can see beautiful photos of Iranian people and places.
Syria: Damascus Old Streets
Syrian Looks takes us down Damascus’ old streets in this photo post.
Latvia: Photoblog
Photos of Latvia – over at FotoLat.
