The Topiary Trees of San Francisco
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 17, 2017
San Francisco residents have a particularly strong liking for topiary trees, as apparent from these photographs taken by three different pho...
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Tommy Tucker: The Famous Squirrel Who Cross-Dressed And Sold War Bonds
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2016
It is said that Tommy Tucker fell from a tree one fine afternoon in 1942 in the backyard of the Bullis’ house, in Washington, D.C., while he...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Europe’s Disappearing Borders by Valerio Vincenzo
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 14, 2015
Ever since the Schengen Agreement was signed in 1985, internal borders between a large number of European countries are gradually disappeari...
Singapore’s Playgrounds From Above
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 30, 2015
Malaysia-born and Singapore-raised renowned photographer Stefen Chow, in collaboration with a local company called Avetics, flew drones all ...
Behind The Stage of Famous European Theatres
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 15, 2015
For the last few years, Hamburg-based photographer Klaus Frahm has been capturing images of incredibly ornamental European theaters from th...
The Gaudy South Indian Houses That Inspired Ettore Sottsass
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 2, 2015
Tiruvannamalai, in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is a small town of 144,000-odd people with a strange taste in architecture. The hou...
