Shiho Fukada: Kashgar

Photograph Shiho Fukada/The New York Times-All Rights Reserved
One of my favorite photographers, Shiho Fukada is featured in today's The New York Times in a slideshow featuring photographs of Kashgar, the town 2,500 miles west of Beijing, which is where local officials described as the worst terrorist attack in China's recent history occurred.

Kashgar is west of the Taklamakan Desert (isn't Taklamakan a wonderful mouthful of a name?), and is where both the northern and southern routes from China around the Taklamakan Desert converge...it's also not far from the legendary historic Silk Route.

The above photograph by Ms Fukada is probably my favorite of the feature. I had to sharpen it as the young boy in the front was very soft in the original...don't miss the child peeking from the staircase!

Viviane Dalles: India

Photograph © Viviane Dalles-All Rights Reserved
Viviane Dalles is a French photographer, who graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (Arles) in 2002. She subsequently traveled to Africa to work for the Festival of African Photography in Bamako (Mali), then worked for the Henri Cartier Bresson Foundation in Paris and with photographers from the Magnum agency, helping to edit and develop their archives.

At the end of 2004, she traveled to India and since then has covered stories in more than ten of its states.

Viviane is currently based in New Delhi. Her clients include LeFigaro Magazine, Le Monde 2, La Tribune, Paris-Match, Internazionale, Le Figaro, Le Monde, The Guardian, among others. She is represented by the REA agency (Paris).

I would highlight her compassionate coverage of the Tibetan communities living in exile in Dharmasala and Mundgod (Karnataka) titled Tibetans In Exile: Suspended Identity.