travel & documentary photography Dec 2019

Abigail Bobo is a US-based photographer specialising in unrehearsed captures.

Her fresh style is candid and rooted in the present moment, allowing the viewer to also immerse themselves in a new place. She adds heart to brands, companies and tourism boards.

A few of her clients include Airbnb Adventures, National Geographic and Mercedes-Benz.

French photographer Adrien Le Falher attributes the inspiration for his unique landscape photographic style more to traditional art than to photography itself. An avid traveller, Le Falher is a master light manipulator who seems to harness nature’s lightbulbs at will, in order to capture even iconic landscapes under a unique and fresh light.

Armed with virtuous patience, Le Falher has had to wait months, even years in some cases, for the perfect shot (he is currently in a 10-year battle with the elements, trying to immortalise one of his visions).

As a videographer and photographer, he worked for global brands, such as Club Med, Audemars Piguet, Air France, and many others.

Some of his fine art works are also sold in multiple art galleries in Paris, as well as in book shops. He just released his first book, "24 heures à l'Ouest de Denver", about the American West.

A seasoned collaborator and worldwide traveller, Brian Hodges is an Australian-based travel and editorial shooter known for capturing authentic moments and images with a powerful connection to place.

In love with travel and the lure of the road, his camera has taken him to more than 60 countries around the globe. Hodges is fluent in three languages and equally comfortable in the photo studio or far off the beaten track.

The photos featured in this Spotlight are taken from a body of work made in Mongolia for the book Gypset Travel published by Assouline.

Hodges' award-winning work has been recognised in the creative industry’s leading publications including Photo District News, National Geographic Traveller and GEO Magazine, among others.

Bruce has been a professional photographer for more than three decades. Through his published work within the travel industry, he is well known for his photography of adventure travel as well as exotic resorts.

Recent adventures include, Nepal, Tibet and India as well as documenting some of the renowned vineyards of Australia. His mastery of this style of photography has sent him on assignments the world over and within New Zealand.

Claudia loves travelling the world to produce documentary-travel photography for publications including Marmite Magazine, Fooby Magazine, SI Travel Magazine, and more.

Recently, she shot a lead story for the inflight magazine of Swiss Airline in Manchester and a second story for the inflight magazine of Edelweiss Airline in Calgary.

Claudia Link’s work includes photography for cookbooks and new image styles for food and drink. She mainly focuses on travel, portrait and lifestyle photography and has a graphic, clean look to her pictures that is simultaneously enriched and transformed by applying a subtle artistic influence.

Together with an experienced team of professionals, Claudia is well known for her clear vision and clean style of photography.

She is based nearby Basel, in a spacious studio with a fully equipped kitchen for big food productions, where she creates unique visual work alongside internationally renowned food stylists, hair and make-up artists.

Gary Latham is an award-winning photographer based in the UK and working worldwide. 

"I like to take pictures. I'm interested in people, culture, society and a sense of place. I travel a lot. I'm a romantic of sorts. I was once described as having a 19th Century sensibility. I like nostalgia, found things and a touch of fantasy."

Gary specialises in travel photography, landscape, food and people. Recent projects include features for Food and Travel magazine, Lonely Planet magazine and Nat Geo Food magazine amongst others. Gary also shoots life-style and interiors for Tesco, Fairmont Hotels Group, and National Tourist Boards throughout Europe.

Gil Bartz, born in Northern Germany, is a freelance photographer and cinematographer based in Berlin. After completing his studies in 2002, he started working in the television industry as a camera–assistant. In 2007 he quit his job to become a cinematographer.

He studied Cinematography at the University for Film and Television “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam – Babelsberg, and graduated in 2012. He has been working as a freelance photographer since 2015.

For the last two years, he has been travelling through the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Russia working on personal photo projects.

"This portfolio represents my personal work, it’s about the people I’ve met on my travels by chance. When I started my trip I never thought about what I would like to capture. I just let it happen. Drifting like this, I felt lucky about every coincidence and new experience. When I first started my travels, I shot in black and white film, carrying around countless film rolls. Since then, I have switched to a digital camera taking pictures mainly in colour. The fact that it’s taken six years to get where I am now and the fact that I have seen so little does not matter to me. Things take time."

"My passion for taking photographs has been born out of a desire to tell a story with images – to immerse myself in the culture of a country or region, understand its people and their lives, their economic and visual landscapes."

Piers Golden is an award-winning photographer based near London. He shoots both editorial and advertising briefs, specialising in brand development, travel and portraiture. Over the past decade he has contributed to a wide range of publications at home and internationally. From the Cambodian delta to the glaciers of the Dolomites, no challenge is too demanding or ambitious.

Piers has recently exhibited at The Front Room gallery in Canterbury, contributed to all three volumes of Perfect Bound Magazine, and featured in The Sunday Times Travel Magazine’s 100th commemorative special edition.

Clients: Angsana, BBC, Vodafone, Leo Burnett, Exclusive Escapes, Y&R, Radio Times, Harrods, Jerez Tourism, Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, Tunisian Tourist Board, Sunsail Holidays, Echo Brand Design, Nivea, Braun, Hi Design, Serenity Holidays, BAA, BA, Four IV, Vitabiotics, Simpsons Holidays.

Publications: Telegraph Ultratravel, Get Lost Magazine, GQ Travel, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Lonely Planet Magazine, CNN, Sainsbury’s Magazine, Perfect Bound, Eurostar, Ryanair's Let's Go!, EasyJet Traveller, N by Norwegian, Morning Calm Magazine, Oryx Magazine, Saga, Get Lost Magazine.

"That day I just headed out into the streets of New York. I just wanted to wander the streets and feel the buzz of the Big Apple – a feeling no other city has. I was near Central Park when I first saw him. He had the ragged signs of homelessness – torn and dirty clothes, beat up shoes, and he was all alone. But his face was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. His wrinkle-lined face and tooth gapped smile told me he had so many stories to tell. So much life had been seen by the man with the squinted eyes. And I had to capture it."

Josh Kelly is represented by Reload and Co, an Australian based production company, representing a select group of photographers and directors. They specialise in advertising campaign production and offer their expertise across the fields of stills photography and film. 

Katarina Premfors is a UAE based freelance photographer covering the Middle East since 1992.

Premfors works across a multitude of editorial and commercial genres, and has delivered multi-national campaigns for a broad spectrum of world-leading private and public sector enterprises. Her clients include global advertising and branding agencies, major corporations and the governments of the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Jordan, Yemen and Afghanistan.

She is available for assignments worldwide, and regularly exhibits her personal and editorial work.

“The work featured in this Spotlight is from a recent adventure in Iceland.  Up before dawn, chasing sunrises, driving hours to spend sunset at a beautiful spot where no rain was predicted. An amazing trip spent sleeping in our boots in a pop up tent on the roof of a campervan, and eating PB&J sandwiches because we were too busy exploring to stop and eat lamb and langoustines.

If you have a chance to go to Iceland, go.

Go fast.

Go soon.

It already can barely handle the amount of tourists visiting so your clock is ticking.

Get there.

I promise you, when you find yourself alone, laying on the ground, looking up at the Northern lights dancing above, you will connect with the heavens and it will be a life changing experience.”

Client list includes: Merck, Bayer, Claritin, Dr Scholls, Coppertone, Afrin, Happy Family Organics, Atlantic Health System, Donate Life.

Marko is a Belgrade-based commercial photographer with 22 years of experience. He studied photography and graduated from the Academy of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia.

His work spans acorss various fields of photography and his images are published in magazines, books, web sites, commercial print and digital media, calendars, corporate literature and billboards.

Marko focuses on a mix of advertising, food, portrait and documentary photography and also works as a freelance photographer.

Since 2003 he has been travelling around the globe shooting people in documentary style for his private project “The Travel Book” that is planned to be published in 2022, marking 25 years in professional photography.

So far Marko visited: India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cuba, Mexico, USA, Tanzania, Ghana, Morocco, Tunisia, Syria, Thailand, Myanmar, Japan, China, Russia, Nepal, Scotland, Scandinavia, Portugal, Italy, Malta, Turkey and the list goes on.

"Windows down. Music up. The warm sunshine on our skin.  Now, only one question remains, ‘what will we discover next?’"

There’s the viewpoint behind the lens and then there’s the rare perspective of being deep in it, just out of frame. Myles McGuinness gets there because he’s been there. Soaking it up. In awe of nature, and human nature. Focused on delivering the shot you’re looking for, as well as capturing the one you never expected.

Myles is an award winning photographer working across the globe with clients including Adidas, British Airways, Four Seasons Resorts, Aruba Tourism, Tahiti Tourism, Visit California and more.

With his images, Peter Baiamonte tries to tell stories while transmitting a sense of deep meaning and revealing glimpses of unique places or special personalities.

Peter’s work includes many genres. He is passionate about sports, portraiture, travel, and landscapes. Although based in New York City, he works regularly with clients in both New York and Boston, and has easy access to the entirety of New England.

The work featured in this Spotlight is from adventures in Venice, Italy; Antarctica; Montana; and a road trip in the Scottish Highlands. 

Peter's clients include Ernst & Young, Con Edison, Panasonic, Bayer, CNY Group, New York Road Runners, Novartis, Berkshire Magazine, TevaNeuroscience, and Webster Bank.

Born in the Basque Country, of Indian heritage and a dual French/American citizen, Puxan feels just as much at home on the road shooting travel and hospitality features as he does shooting commercial food in studio conditions. 

On the road for much of the year, Puxan enjoys telling stories of the artisans, chefs, artists of the places he visits, taking a deep dive into the daily local routines of these inspiring people. 

Clients include Michelin Guide, Emmanuel Renault (three-star Michelin), Conde Nast Traveler, Princess Cruises, JW Marriott, BETC, Publicis, Hachette Publishing, National Geographic.

Roberto is a landscape and travel photographer based in Guatemala who frequently engages in event and commercial photography, where he has gained experience working with large international crews.

His extensive work with animals and his travels through the Americas and Europe has helped him relate to the cultural sensitivities of his clients, the challenges of locations, and the nature of his subjects. His aim is simple, deliver high-quality results.

His latest collaborations, amongst others, has been with Facebook (US Global Parent), Novartis Pharmaceutical Guatemala, Snapwire, Global Business Screening, Kantar World Panel and National Program of Competitiveness of Guatemala (Pronacom).