Travel & Humanitarian Photos
This is perhaps the time of year when we begin to take stock, to review what we’ve achieved in the preceding months and to begin planning for the year ahead. It’s very convenient that our time should be divided into such tidy blocks. Twelve months, fifty two weeks, three hundred and sixty five days; it’s [...]
By way of a small distraction from the serious business of photographing Bhutan and the autumn tsechus, members of our group would occasionally descend into the kind of eccentric behaviour that can seem wildly amusing – at the time. On this day, we found that adopting the poses of models in clothing catalogues fantastically funny. [...]
One of the highlights of our recent Bhutan Photo Expedition was a day trip to the Ura Valley. The Lonely Planet describes Ura Village as “Forty closely packed houses along cobblestone streets…giving it a medieval atmosphere”. We had left the main Lakhang and were walking through the village, where we met five schoolgirls on their [...]
One of the main aims of my photo workshops and tours is to encourage participants to appreciate the culture of the location that they are visiting. If travel photography, for want of a better term, is about anything, it must surely be about communicating an experience. Travel broadens the mind, anyone who has ever stepped [...]
I’m home in Bangkok, savouring the memories of the last two weeks in Bhutan. I was blessed with the company of a delightful group of photographers who made the trip memorable for all the right reasons. There are naturally some concerns when you start to organise a trip of this nature, it’s two weeks in [...]