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Tattooed-Face Women of Myanmar’s Chin State

August 7, 2018

Tattooed-Face Women of Myanmar’s Chin State by Gilad Fiskus, who was born in Montréal, Canada in 1965 and has been living in Israel since his early childhood. In 1989 he graduated with honours from the Dentistry School at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As a photographer, his artistic work concentrates primarily around unique human cultures. Being an autodidact photographer, he is passionate about capturing cultural ceremonies, people in traditional dress, and rituals. Over the years his photos have been displayed in more than 100 exhibitions around the globe. Gilad travels once or twice a year in search of unexplored and authentic destinations, filling his soul with new experiences and creative photography. [MORE...]

Faces in far away places (Photo Essay)

March 23, 2017

I think the biggest challenge of a travel photographer or travel journalist is to photographically capture the heart of a country – portraits of its people. Over many years I have captured some interesting portraits of many amazing people. Here are a few of my favourite portraits. See more at my NEW BLOG    Wadi Thughra, Petra, JORDAN I was exploring and truly admiring the rock-cut architecture and water conduit systems built during the 5th century BC in the ancient Nabataeans city now known at Petra. As much as I was intrigued but the stone carved city, I was slowly being sucked in [MORE...]