The Polaroid project was almost put to an end in Syria. Eve was shooting with the tripod and the big camera in the souks of Damascus. I was holding the Polaroid camera. That was probably too much, too suspect, so that a friendly guy asked us why and what we were taking pictures of… He was probably intrigued [...]

In order to understand this post, you need to know that Guillaume spent his early days in Syria – from his birth until he was 3. As we were travelling through the Middle East, we had no choice but to stop in Damascus for a couple of days in order to look for the house [...]

Is it the highest altitude Polaroid picture ever taken? At 5,416m, it may well be so! Sure, the image is not perfectly sharp… But surely, the Polaroid camera was not engineered for such altitude! Almost frozen (like my hands), with a bit of ice still on it, it is still a decent shot! Sure, the magic camera [...]

4am in a full moon night and we are already hitting the trail up to Thorong La, a pass located high at 5,416m between the Annapurna mountains. ‘La’ means the pass or more appropriately the deity or keeper of the pass who may or may not let the trekker cross over. 6am and the silver circles of [...]

100 rupees (about 1 euro), that’s what it will cost you to be blessed by Lama Teshi. The monk may be 95 years old but at 3,800m, perched on a cliff just above the town of Manang, he is still a welcoming young man and he will bless all the trekkers fearing the famous Thorong pass. Such [...]

Slowed down by an extreme heat, blurred by a heavy dust and drenched in colors during the Holi festival, the Polaroid camera was facing its biggest challenge so far… Located in a crumbling building, the New Delhi post office was a ramshackle of small offices. I managed to buy some stamps and stuck them on the [...]

Of course, we had seen it hundreds of time before on TV. Of course, we knew that there was ‘this’ famous reflection picture. But still we found the Taj Mahal surpassing all this hype and truly living up to its legend. It was much more impressive, much more beautiful than we can ever imagine. A striking beauty! Magical. Almost [...]

At first sight, the Khajuraro temples have a ‘classic’ Indo-Aryan architecture. But if you come closer and look at the sculptures and carvings, well, it is a completely different story! The Khajuraro temples are the Kama Sutra in stone… All the positions imaginable, included the most acrobatic ones and all partners, two, three, four and even some [...]

After 2 months in China and in South-East Asia, we were heading to the fabulous subcontinent. Our first stop in India was Kolkata / Calcutta. The city is bustling with life and charming with its decrepit colonial architecture. But it is also India we feared: chaotic, dirty, poor, squalid. Incredibly poor with its cohort of beggars [...]

After weeks of frugal backpacker diet, cheap beers and dry peanuts, it was time for some trendier party… We headed to the Sirocco rooftop bar in Bangkok during our stopover in the city and enjoyed the amazing views. The mojitos were great, but there was a huge bill shock at the end of the night: it was [...]