Asha’s kitchen – Recipes from our home in Delhi
Ever since we came to live in Delhi in early 2002, we have always lived in Nizamuddin, not far from the wall around one of the most beautiful parks in the world; the World Heritage Site of Humayun’s Tomb and its beautiful gardens. There is a special entrance to the tomb complex for residents of [...]
Jaipur for Luxury Vagabonds
As much as I intended to keep updating this blog on a regular basis, it really has been a while. I’ve been traveling outside of India, visiting family in Israel and waiting for my new visa to India to come through. It took more than a month and we actually didn’t really move much, except [...]
Good vibes, techno beats and body paint in Tel Aviv
I took my daughter to the Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv this afternoon. Good vibes, techno beats and body paint reminded me a bit of ‘Hotel LaChapelle‘. Street parties are always a terrific opportunity for pictures but this time, being responsible for a nine-year-old, I was not so free to shoot. Never the less, [...]
Travel Photography – Vacation in Sinai with ‘The Best Camera’
Travel photography and the search for the best camera to take along on vacation continues. I have been struggling with this issue for years as the idea of going on vacation with my big set of cameras and lenses started being a little too much to handle. Why would I want to have the responsibility [...]
Photography is about WHY not HOW
Photography is not at all about the technique but about the reason. My friend Seshu had just published a blog post about how to make your photos sing. it is a good post but many photographers don’t even know how to make their photos talk. A few days ago I went to the Delhi FCC [...]
Portrait Photography in a Daylight Studio
Setting up a daylight studio for portrait photography is not as difficult as I used to think. My grandfather was a photographer in Poland before the war and I remember stories that my mother used to tell me about how he set up his own daylight studio using the glass on which the light sensitive [...]
Food Photography should make you Hungry
The way i see it, food photography should make you hungry. Anything else is simply not good enough! More than that, food photography is all about the food itself and not about styling. Think about it for a second and you’ll see how photographing food can suddenly become very simple. What I look at when [...]
The ‘Photo Nazi’!
Some of you might call me a Photo Nazi but i think it is important to put the discussion out there. Every now and then I get emails from young photography enthusiasts or aspiring photographers asking for advice or showing me their portfolio seeking opinion. It sometimes takes me a few days but I always [...]
Sephi Bergerson is a documentary photographer based in New Delhi since 2002, with easy access to all locations in south east Asia and the Indian ocean.

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