Nana Chen
Editor-at-Large

Wandering and photographing in Jaisalmer, India.

Before becoming a freelance photographer and writer, Nana Chen was the Travel Editor of e-Marginalia.com and Editor of ACNielsen Taiwan for over seven years. Her photography and writing have appeared in South China Morning Post (SCMP), topwritecorner.com, Still Moments, e-Marginalia.com and Lexima.gr (translated to Greek).  Nana’s photographs and paintings have been exhibited in Taipei, Montreal and New York City galleries. Her work has been featured and reviewed on International Community Radio Taipei (ICRT), in New York City’s Gallery&Studio, This Month in Taiwan, and other media. She is currently a columnist for WorldBeat in SCMP and contributes to several in-flight magazines. Nana lives in Taipei with her four cameras.

Stories:

Interview: Jen Leo - Jen Leo has kept us chuckling with titles like Sand in My Bra and The Thong Also Rises. Now she will be bringing us What Color Is Your Jockstrap? Having worked in publishing, Jen learned early on what it took to keep it all running. What was maybe not so predictable was her success with her blog Written Road. The blog that started out as a personal project has grown into one of the most addictive websites... [Visit this Feature]

Interview: Hans Kemp - I met with photographer Hans Kemp in Taipei this year... Self-taught, Hans has been taking photographs for over 20 years, focusing on travel photography in Asia. Based in Ho Chi Min City, Hans has collected some breathtaking images of his adopted home... After turning down a book offer with a major photo and art publisher, Kemp founded Visionary World, the publishing house he now runs in Hong Kong... [Visit this Feature]

Interview: Rita Golden Gelman - In 1986, at the age of 48, children’s book author Rita Golden Gelman set off for what she thought was going to be a two-week break from a tattered marriage. The two weeks turned into four weeks, then months, and now years. Traveling has become Rita’s life. She shares her journey with the world in Tales of a Female Nomad, a book that reminds us to live. Rita recently agreed to a phone interview. On the phone, she spoke with the same candor and intimacy as she does in her book. Her openness forces you to be likewise... [Visit this Feature]

Interview: Rolf Potts - At 34, Rolf Potts, the author of Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, has wandered through forty-five states and fifty-five countries. It all started a decade ago when Rolf graduated from university. He and a group of college friends bought a Volkswagen bus and traveled for the next eight months. Rolf was never the same after that adventure. He wanted to integrate travel into his daily life; he was no longer content with the annual two-week sprint to a destination and back. Rolf had a hunch there was more to life than that. And he was right. The Wichita native left the prairies and discovered the love of his life, travel, and the ideal means to support it... [Visit this Feature]

Interview: Doug Lansky - After telling copy machines where to go, Doug Lansky packed his bags and took off saying goodbye to life as an intern at Late Night with David Letterman, "Spy Magazine," and "The New Yorker". That was in 1992. Much has changed since. After traveling around the world and becoming an expert at it, Doug Lansky has now penned and edited numerous award-winning bestselling travel books, including The Last Trout in Venice... [Visit this Feature]

Patagonia, Land of the Big Feet and Fallen Toenails - Arriving in Patagonia, we saw mint blue lakes that made my mouth water. I had never seen such colors in nature. I wanted to wear the glacial lakes. To get to El Chaltén we had to fly to El Calafate first where we’d catch a bus. Hours later, our bus cut through the hills, following teal streams. Herds of choiques and quanucos appeared and disappeared alongside our gravel road... [Visit this Feature]

Interview: Randy Curwen - Randy Curwen is a name on the tip of just about every travel writer’s tongue. A native of Wisconsin, Mr. Curwen has been the travel editor of Chicago Tribune for the past 13 years. With decades of experience in editing and writing, we invited him to an interview. His responses to my questions provided so much travel writing insight that we’ve decided to share them with all of you… [Visit this Feature]

Interview: Alberto del Castillo - In November last year, I finally made it to Argentina for a reunion with friends I had met in Jaisalmer. While staying with them, they introduced me to Patagonia expert mountaineer, Alberto del Castillo. The 43-year-old mountaineer and a father of three is the CEO of Fitz Roy Expediciones & Patagonia Aventura SA… [Visit this Feature]

Tsunami - In an instant hundreds of thousands of lives were swept away by the horrific waves of the tsunami of December 26, 2004. From this day, the word tsunami became a part of our everyday lexicon. Tsunami, comes from Japanese, meaning “harbor wave. ”With waves measuring up to 30 meters and, in the Pacific Ocean, traveling over 700 kilometers per hour, tsunamis are giant waves that can destroy everything in their path… [Visit this Feature]

Jaisalmer - During a recent trip to India my friend and I traveled by bus from Bikaner to Jaisalmer. We had stayed in Jaisalmer for only a few hours before admitting we had reservations about getting our feet trampled by rats, even if they were holy rats from the Karni Mata Temple in Deshnok, 30km away. The bus to Jaisalmer was seven-and-a-half hours, overnight. The rhythmic passage to the desert city took us through the long veins of India in pitch darkness…” [Visit this Feature]

Photography Links:

http://www.msnusers.com/NanaChenPhotography
http://www.art-mine.com (represented by Agora Gallery, SoHo, NYC)

Art Links:

http://www.msnusers.com/NanaChen
http://www.absolutearts.com
http://www.artmajeur.com

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