The Travelling Editor

Photogenic You: Fort Nizwa, Oman

It’s a fast-paced ascent up the stairway, trampling glass panels underfoot that separate deathly plunges and man atop where the trapdoors used to be. And then, bright light – even more blinding than the darkness that concealed the steps – rushes through the opening and redefined the scenery. Pass the threshold, we’ve reached the highest [...]

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Photogenic You: Reggia di Venaria, Italy

One must invoke some haunting imaginations to envisage the now-hollow halls of Reggia di Venaria crowded with flamboyantly-dressed nobles, as it was in the 17th century – and represented the majesty of the House of Savoy, a family that rose from dukedom to eventually rule a unified Italy. And just as the Savoys ascended in [...]

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Photogenic You: Lake Tekapo, New Zealand

There’s little wonder that Lake Tekapo is one of the most photographed locations in New Zealand. Behind the main road and strip of convenient stores, the crystalline lake mirrored a shade of cobalt blue the cloudless skies had donned – and visitors flocked the waterfront, either firing the shutters or in silent admiration of an epitome [...]

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Photogenic You: Mongkok, Hong Kong

What the Mongkok street scenes epitomise is just how hectic Hong Kong is. The never-ceasing influx of people ebbs along pavements, wiggling in and out of side streets either with haste or leisure. Across the metal fences, uniform flow of red taxis, battered lorries and mini vans shuffle and halt, spitting fumes and grunting. Beneath [...]

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Concrete revelation: The Travelling Editor rebranding

Last week, I handled about 40 heavy packets of concrete and filled a patch in a backyard. Not that my purpose of travelling all the way to Auckland was to find work in a construction site, or volunteer in a farm; it was my dad’s landscaping project at his own backyard, after all, and at [...]

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Photogenic You: The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain

Even amidst the splurges of constant rain, Bilbao sporadically witnessed miraculous intervals. For Monica and me, these recesses were blessings to the photographers in us. Like guns blazing, our trigger fingers were flexed – and the mechanical eyes of our cameras were scorched upon with imageries. And before a sight as magnificent as Bilbao’s Guggenheim [...]

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The Offline Diaries: Photographing Oman

Ever since I downloaded the Guardian Eyewitness iPad app, I’ve experienced an interest in photography like never before. I’d always been servile to automatic settings whenever I captured images in the past, often because the fleeting photo opportunities demanded it – but since I began to receive my daily dosage of magnificent images and ‘pro [...]

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Photogenic You: Chinese New Year, England

Smokes llingered and continued to enshroud Trafalgar Square, even when the combustion reactions ceased and the crackles hushed – then to be replaced by thunderous applause. As burnt gunpowder particles dispersed, and the utterance of formalities and rhetorics heard, the entourage of speakers each approached the dragon-head effigy and dotted its eyes with black ink, [...]

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