Tom Carter

Photographer: What You Think I Do / What I Really Do - Tom Carter

I often receive emails from aspiring authors and photographers inquiring about the creation process or asking for publishing advice. I am hardly any kind of publishing professional or literary expert, but I am always happy to share my experiences as an indie author and impart my accrued knowledge about publishing. - Tom Carter

Orissa is also one of India's most poor regions and in a constant state of political turmoil between local indigenous tribes, represented by the far-left Naxalites, or Maoists, and government and corporate interests out to exploit the resource-rich region. - Tom Carter

Travel photographer Tom Carter is backpacking across all of India to photograph his next book. Here is a preview of some of his incredible imagery from the 35 states of India. - Tom Carter

US-China Institute interviews photographers and photojournalists exploring China's modern transformation. Tom Carter, author of CHINA: Portrait of a People, takes us on a visual journey across China. - Tom Carter

(interview) Chris Thrall exposes Hong Kong "foreign" triads in new book - Tom Carter

In Beijing I often saw “melted” people on the subway. They existed there as a sort of subculture of itinerant beggars. - Tom Carter

Foreign rights and translation publication rights now available for Carter’s book. Book publisher announces open call. - Tom Carter

One can’t help but wonder how these two nomadic warriors can go so long without bathing or brushing their teeth. - Tom Carter

My book might be a critical success, but the fact is that people don’t buy coffee-table books anymore; Flickr killed that genre. - Tom Carter

And while the quality of the pictures is not coffee table standard, the lack of gloss emphasizes the absence of Photoshopped trickery that characterizes other photo books. This is an honest work. - Tom Carter

China - home to 1.3 billion people of 56 different ethnicities with over 400 spoken dialects. Check out these portraits to see if Chinese people really do "look the same." - Tom Carter

Backpacking through every region of China over the course of two years, the photojournalist met and documented everyday people who live and work far from the tourist-traveled trails. Gaining his subjects’ trust, while at times risking arrest, Carter captured the fascinating faces that comprise the People’s Republic of China, creating a stunning document in the process. - Tom Carter

Backpacking through every region of China over the course of two years, the photojournalist met and documented everyday people who live and work far from the tourist-traveled trails. Gaining his subjects’ trust, while at times risking arrest, Carter captured the fascinating faces that comprise the People’s Republic of China, creating a stunning document in the process. - Tom Carter

The American photojournalist spent two years traveling 35,000 miles through every province of China to photograph this 900-photo book. - Tom Carter

Reading and absorbing this book will provide the reader with a true sense of the cultural riches of China: more important, the reader will feel an affinity for these people with whom we share life on the planet. - Tom Carter