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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What I’m doing right now is editing the May shooting, from both China and Myanmar. After the Yunnan Spring workshop in Shuhe, near Lijiang, I drove down to Dali for some days (more writing than shooting), then on to Kunming to catch the flight to Yangon. The reason was to join the team for the [...]