Faro a Colon: The Columbus Lighthouse
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2016
In Santo Domingo Este of Dominican Republic, is a towering monument dedicated to Christopher Columbus. It’s called “Faro a Colon”, which is ...
Inside Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market: The World’s Biggest Fish Market
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2016
Sandwiched between Sumida River and the upmarket Ginza shopping district, in Tsukiji in central Tokyo, is a large wholesale market for fruit...
Girard Henderson’s Luxurious Cold War Era Underground Bomb Shelter
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2016
During the Cold War, the US government launched a country-wide effort to prepare its citizens for a possible thermonuclear war. Children wer...
Survivor Trees Around The World
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2016
Every now and then, a calamity —either natural or man-made— strikes humanity and just when it appears that no living being could survive the...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 24
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 14, 2016
From the archives of Amusing Planet. What’s Cooking? - Cutaway Food Photography by Ryan Matthew Smith Ryan Matthew Smith’s photo series “M...
Beehive Fences: Using Bees To Keep Elephants Away From Crops
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2016
Protecting crops from raiding elephants is not an easy task for Africans farmers where wild elephants often roam free, until a group of Brit...
Cretto di Burri: The Concrete Labyrinth of Gibellina
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 12, 2016
On the Italian island of Sicily, about 70 km from the capital city Palermo, is a huge labyrinth of concrete hugging the side of a hill like ...
The Ancient Yew Forest of Kingley Vale
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2016
Tucked between Stoke Down and Bow Hill, near the village of West Stoke about three miles north west of Chichester, in West Sussex in souther...
Vietnamese Water Puppet Shows
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 11, 2016
For centuries, Vietnamese kids and grown-ups alike have been entertained by a unique kind of puppet show —one that is performed on water. Th...
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...
