America’s Strangest Conventions
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2016
For the last three years, American photographer Arthur Drooker has been to a dozen conventions across the country, photographing some of the...
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Photos of World’s Famous Monuments Taken The Other Way
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 1, 2016
Take any famous monument around the world, and look up pictures of it on the Internet, or at your own albums, if you have visited the place....
Drone Photos Capture The Rich/Poor Divide in Cape Town
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 22, 2016
Although South Africa’s apartheid era ended more than twenty years ago, there is still a palpable economic tension between the blacks and th...
The Terrifying Scarecrows of Britain
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2016
One of the most familiar figures of the rural landscape throughout the United Kingdom , as with many countries around the world, is the scar...
Abandoned Victorian Public Toilets of London
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 24, 2016
Of all the wonderful things to photograph in London, Agnese Sanvito chose one that most Londoners avoid, unless they have to —public toilet...
Drone Photos Show The Density of Hong Kong’s High Rises
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 9, 2016
Hong Kong based photographer, Andy Yeung , shows us how densely populated his city is by flying a drone over and capturing the view with a w...
London’s ‘Missing Buildings’ by Thom And Beth Atkinson
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 15, 2016
September 7, 1940, is a significant date in London's history. On this Saturday afternoon, hundreds of German bombers flew over London, a...
The Spectacular Waves of Lake Erie
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2016
It’s hard to believe these pictures of gigantic, thrashing waves were not captured in the ocean but on the shallowest of the Great Lakes of ...
Unseen Pictures of The Vietnam War From The Other Side
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2016
What the western world remembers about the Vietnam War is defined by a handful of iconic photographs taken through the lenses of American an...
The Hellish Gold Mines of Serra Pelada
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2016
In the early 1980s, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado travelled to the mines of Serra Pelada, some 430 kilometers south of the mouth ...
Satellite Images or Microscopic Photos?
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2016
While going through my daily reading list, one particular image posted on the Tumblr blog Daily Overview, which publishes high quality satel...
The Beautiful Floor Mosaics of Venice
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2016
Sightseeing around Venice generally involves sticking your nose up in the air marveling at historic buildings and sprawling vistas, but that...
Aerial Photography of Jassen Todorov
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 19, 2016
Jassen Todorov is not just a photographer. He is a licensed pilot, a professor of music at San Francisco State University, and an acclaimed...
The Alphabets From Space
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 5, 2016
In July 2012, while working on a story about wildfires, NASA’s science writer and social media manager Adam P. Voiland spotted a V-shaped pl...
The Best Drone Photography of 2015
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2016
Drone photography has becoming increasingly popular, and thanks to communities like Dronestagram , drone fliers from around the world are ta...
NASA's Abandoned Launch Sites
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 15, 2015
The Mercury, Gemini and the Apollo Missions of the late 1950s and 60s still remain one of NASA’s greatest achievements — one that enabled hu...
What Happens When The Grid Meets The Curvature of The Earth?
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 14, 2015
In the late 18th century, when American land surveyors were laying down the grid system —the network of perpendicularly intersecting streets...
Unexploded Bombs Find Everyday Use in Laos’ Villages
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 19, 2015
The Vietnam War ended 40 years ago, but left a deadly legacy, especially in Laos. The US military dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs ...
Eric Pickersgill Removes Smartphones From Photos to Show Our Extreme Device Addiction
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 14, 2015
American photographer Eric Pickersgill’s new photo series titled “ Removed ” shows people in everyday life absorbed with their digital devic...
The Strange Beauty of Soviet Bus Stops
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 3, 2015
Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig travelled through the length and breadth of the former Soviet Union to document a curious phenomen...
