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Workshop opportunities with Gavin Gough, Matt Brandon, Karl Grobl and Marco Ryan that will help fund projects with NGOs
Heat, luxury and a land of opportunity – How Egypt offers great workshop potential
At 50c, a Canon 5d Mk2 becomes too hot to handle! Literally and figuratively. The L series lens with their metal fittings burn the hands and the camera body itself is uncomfortably hot. Sweat gets into the eyes and onto the palms making it difficult to see the settings or make any adjustments.
But, despite this, we are striking a rich seem of cultural images.
The clash of culture and tourism in Upper Egypt
The scene is almost biblical. The earthen streets, the half naked child peering out of the mud brick house or the old man resting on a simple wooden bed against a bright blue wall. Right up to the point where the child runs out and says “Hello. One dollar. Baksheesk”. Not even the usual “Welcome [...]
Bangkok Photo School workshop with Gavin Gough
During my trip to Bangkok, I added an extra day so that I could meet up with locally based freelance travel photographer, Gavin Gough for a 1 on 1 workshop. Gavin is a freelance travel, stock and assignment photographer, who has also established the Bangkok Photo school – which he co founded with Jackie Rado [...]
Kumbh Mela workshop – Amazing trip announced
Gavin Gough and Matt Brandon have just formally released the details for an amazing workshop in April 2010 to the Kumbh Mela festival in india. According to Gavin’s own post . they’ve arranged the trip to “coincide with the most auspicious bathing day, on April 14th, when the river Ganges will be the centre of [...]
Edoardo Agresti launches blog
Some key steps on my own photographic journey can be traced back to a couple of seminal moments – the emotional reaction I felt when I first saw Steve McCurry’s Afghan Girl; An exhibition of Dorothea Lange’s work; The reading of David DuChemin’s “Within the Frame” which helped me focus on the “why” and not [...]
Gavin Gough 2010 Photo Workshops announced
Gavin Gough – the intrepid Bangkok based Humanitarian and travel photgrapher – has just announced his 2010 workshops series, that will cover, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bhutan and some other locations still to be announced. If your not familiar with Gavin’s work, it can be viewed at www.gavingough.com. I think his work is similar in approach [...]
Camera Etrusca – photographic workshop in Umbria and Tuscany
I was very fortunate to spend a week with professional photographer, Patrick Nicholas, who runs Camera Etrusca in Orvieto, Italy. Patrick has been a professional photographer for most of his working life and has been based in Italy for the last 25 years or so. Patrick brings an encyclopedic knowledge of Etruscan history, insights and [...]
Italy within the Frame
I have been incredibly lucky to get one of the very few places on a workshop with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman in Italy in April 2010. David’s book – With the Frame (available in the eStore) – is one of the most engaging reads around photography, exploring the “Why” rather than the “How” of [...]
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