Stewart CohenDirector/DP/Photographer, Stewart Cohen Pictures · Director/DP/Photographer @ Stewart Cohen Pictures | Film Production

This is more than photos. It’s the journey

28 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief segment of the YouTube video, the speaker recounts how an early photograph of the Pushkar camel fair in India sparked a sense of wonder about worlds beyond the United States. The image motivated them to add the fair to their bucket list, travel to Pushkar, and capture the scene themselves. The narrative emphasizes the drive to seek visual experiences that cannot be found at home, linking travel directly to the desire to photograph unique cultural moments.

There was an early, early photograph I saw in Pushkar, India of the camel fair there. Yeah. And to me, I couldn't believe that there was a world like that still. And I put it on my bucket list to do. And I went there because it was just like, you know, I live in the United States now and you just— there are certain scenes that we can't see here. And that's what really drove me to travel and explore. Saw these pictures and I wanted to be there and then I wanted to take the pictures.