Travel & Humanitarian Photos
News of two things to excite and inspire you today. Firstly, Ivana Maglione, a student and participant on our Bhutan Photo Tour last year, has work featured in her first exhibition in a gallery in Dubai. “Colours of the Himalayas” features her images from Bhutan together with those of Lama Kabbani.
The press release reads:
The exhibition is an act of serendipity. The two women had never met until they were introduced through Portfolio Gallery. Ivana has just returned from Bhutan and Lama coincidentally from Tibet where their passion for photography led them. Their images of the rich heritage and indigenous tribesmen of these remote bordering regions inspired a joint exhibition entitled “Colors of the Himalayas” that will be on display from February 4 – 28, 2010.
Ivana took a photo workshop last year with Gavin Gough, a travel photographer based in Bangkok, who works on assignment and creates stock photography for Getty and Lonely Planet Images. He commented, “Travel does indeed broaden the mind and Ivana’s enjoyment of the varied, fascinating cultures that she has explored has undoubtedly fuelled her love of photography. Her other creative motivation must surely be her love of people. The very best travel photographs are made by photographers who establish a genuine connection with their subjects.”
Many of Ivana’s photographs were taken on a tour to capture the life and colour of Bhutan’s autumn tsechus – or festivals – in 2009. She describes that expedition as a “life-changing experience”. In Bhutan she was able to consolidate her knowledge and to turn her keen eye to producing works that neatly capture the energy of a Bhutanese festival.
Meanwhile, the publishing machine that we call David duChemin continues to churn out new material, his latest being “The Inspired Eye 2 – Notes on creativity for photographers”.
I’ll let David introduce it himself.
“This is the second in what, for now, is a two volume series of thoughts and reflections on creativity for photographers. Not creative photography, not even really ideas on how to make your photography more creative, but thoughts about creativity itself. I think it’s important to approach creativity pragmatically, and there’s much to be said for nurturing creativity only as you think it pertains to your craft, but that’s plowing a pretty small field. What you want as you till the ground of your creative soul and mind, and plant seeds that’ll one day bear fruit, is to till the widest patch, and sow the most seed possible. This isn’t stuff you can predict, and we often find the stuff we thought would bring the most return is, in fact, the stuff that bears no fruit at all, while the far corners of our creativity, in the spots we never imagined the seed to have fallen, are the corners where the unexpected, the inspired, grows. So this is, like Volume I, a collection of thoughts about creativity itself.”
This second “Notes” book suggests that you “collaborate”, “learn your craft”, “fill your bucket”, “dig deeper” and “let it flow”. If you want to know what all those things mean – and why wouldn’t you? – then head over to the Craft and Vision web site where you can pick up a copy of this rather lovely e-book for the price of a latte.