Laura El-Tantawy was born in Worcestershire, England and grew up between Cairo, Egypt and Dammam, Saudi Arabia. She graduated from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA (USA) with a dual degree in journalism and political science, worked as a staff photographer with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in...
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For the last five days I’ve been leading a photography workshop in Yunnan, China, a favourite area of mine. We’re based in a converted Naxi courtyard farmhouse in the old village of Shuhe, about half an hour from Lijiang. Called The Bivou, it’s the idea of an architect friend of mine with a practice in [...]