Category | India

Where can I find interviews about your career?

September 29, 2009 in Also posted in Africa, F.A.Q., Interviews, Kashmir, Multimedia, Seminar, Websites, conflict, internet, photography, travel, workshops

The talented Steve Casimiro, a photographer and editor for National Geographic's Adventure magazine has created a wonderful blog called the Adventure Life. I was honored that he invited me for this interview.http://www.theadventurelife.org/2009/07/ami-vitales-beautiful-cultures-and-powerful-documentary/ Field Notes from a National Geographic story I did on the ... Read More

Lumen Dei Workshop in Ladakh, India

September 29, 2009 in Also posted in Ladakh, Lumen Dei, Seminar, photography, travel, workshops

Just back from Ladakh, India where I had the privilege of working with David Duchemin, Matt Brandon and 8 extremely talented photographers. We explored the bustling back streets of Old Delhi, the Sufi shrine of Nizamuddin and then headed up to the Khardungla Pass to cross the worlds highest motorable road at 18,380 feet. The road is situated on an ancient trade route from Leh ... Read More

Frontline: Kashmir

September 13, 2009 in Also posted in Kashmir, Multimedia, photography

View Project at PBS online here: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/flash_point/kashmir/ Over the past 60 years, the beauty of Kashmir has been overshadowed by tension and violence. Despite the wishes of Mahatma Gandhi, regarded as the father of Indian independence, the sub-continent was divided along religious lines and two nations were born: the secular but Hindu-dominated India and the Islamic Republic of ... Read More

Kushti Wrestling

September 2, 2009 in Also posted in Kushti, photography, wrestling

Indian men practice the three thousand year old sport known as "Kushti", a form of wrestling, in its traditional form in Kolhapur, India. In this south-eastern Indian city Kushti has a long tradition. Wrestlers continue the rigorous schedule of waking up at 3:30am six times a week and practicing more than 6 hours every day. They live together in one small room above the arena and their only belongings are a blanket, a few items of clothes. They have been compared to holy men because of their ... Read More

Mirages: A Video Shot for Nikon with the D300s

August 29, 2009 in Also posted in D300s, Kashmir, Multimedia, Nikon, travel

This was my first attempt at shooting video with a still camera. I used the Nikon D300s and experimented in different situations from riding on the hood of a taxi in Mumbai, India to the deadly, blowing sands of the Thar desert in Rajasthan.  Or maybe its the other way around.. more deadly is sitting on the top of an Indian taxi just to get a few images. Dai Sugano, an absolute genius and wonderful journalist, helped me with the editing. ... Read More