travel photography Nov 2012

Andy Wilson has just returned from a summer-long overland trip that took him from the UK to Tajikistan and home again.

After covering 25,000 kilometers along with a few stories to tell, he's currently shooting in China, Brazil and the USA for international clients.

Andy is well known for his honest, natural images and during 2013 plans to travel overland from London to Iran.

For more information visit Andy's website or give him a call on +44 (0) 7000 740 240.

Doug Bruce was born in Paris and grew up in Africa, France, Italy, Spain and England. He moved to New York in 1999 and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2005.

More comfortable when trekking to remote jungle villages in Central America or photographing the slums of Phnom Penh, Doug's intrepid curiosity has led him to travel extensively on assignment throughout Asia, Australia, Europe and Central America.

Bruce's portraits and travel photography have appeared in Another Magazine, Vanity Fair, W Magazine, The Times, Homme +, Korean Vogue, Dazed Digital, Glass, Harper's Bazaar Online, Tank and Sherman's Travel. His advertising clients include Levi's, Rag and Bone, Earth Train, Citibank and Def Productions.

Douglas Merriam is an award-winning travel and food photographer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Portland, Maine. He travels extensively on assignment both domestically and abroad capturing the essence of place, people and cuisine.

His passion is photographing farmers, farms, and food on the vine, as well as following the journey of food to plate. Clients have described his demeanor as “easy and fun, a consummate professional, an unknown treasure we’d like to keep to ourselves.”

When not on assignment he can be found growing his own food and cooking it with his wife and daughter in their tiny kitchen.

Travel and landscape photography have always been important areas of Jens Goerlich's work. His assignments often take him to remote locations, giving him the opportunity to look into foreign cultures and capture spectacular and emotional moments.

The images featured in this Spotlight were taken in various countries. Most are part of commercial jobs, but some were taken as personal work during private trips.

Jens is based out of Frankfurt and works worldwide in the areas of travel/landscape, transportation and people for agencies, magazines and direct clients.

Klaus Fengler is a specialist in outdoor and climbing photography. His images regularly appear in national and international publications.

For 10 years he has accompanied extreme climber Stefan Glowacz on expeditions to Mexico, Kenya, Patagonia, Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela, Nepal and Baffin Iceland. Klaus was in Greenland in 2004 with professional Swiss climber Urs Odermatt, while in 2006 he crossed Patagonia on horseback accompanied by gauchos.

Klaus has been a freelance photographer since 2003. His areas of speciality include sports, outdoor, skiing, Nordic skiing, climbing, ice climbing, expeditions, travel, running, landscapes and reportage.

Clients include Sport Schuster Munich, Ortovox, Lowa, Stern,View, Geo,
Geo Saison, Alpinist, Klettern, abenteuer & reisen, FIT for FUN, Bergsteiger, Alpin, Mountainbike, Roadbike and Outdoor.

Markus Hintzen is a Frankfurt-based photographer specialised in people, architecture, travel and landscape images. He works worldwide for advertising, magazines and annual reports.

His clients include advertising agencies such as Ogilvy, Saatchi&Saatchi, Publicis, McCann Erickson, J.W. Thompson and many others.

He regularly works for magazines including Stern, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Manager Magazine, Automotive Agenda and Wirtschaftswoche.

Matt Dutile is a New York City-based lifestyle and travel photographer. He grew up in a small New Hampshire farm town before venturing west seeking buried treasure, as most explorers do. He now enjoys the eccentricities of swiftly speeding cab rides and New York nights.

He’s a problem solver and story teller, an experience maker and fun creator. Sometimes he rhymes. Mostly he smiles.

Matt has the absolute pleasure to spend his life doing what he loves; travelling the world, making people laugh and capturing the energy of the moment forever. He believes that great photography is not just about captivating images, but creating an enjoyable experience for both client and crew. He hopes you'll be one of them.

Clients include Islands, Caribbean Travel + Life, AFAR, Easy Living UK, AAA Living, New York Magazine, and more.

Throughout his 20-year career, Philip Lee Harvey has worked in over 120 countries for advertising and editorial commissions.

His travel and lifestyle clients include HSBC, British Airways, Shell, BP, Tchibo, LandRover, Volvo, Abercrombie & Kent, Sony, Intercontinental Hotels, Four Seasons, British, Irish and Egyptian Tourist Boards, Lonely Planet Traveller Magazine, Geo Magazine, Conde Nast Traveller Magazine, Travel and Leisure Magazine and National Geographic Traveller.

Philip has won over 40 awards including '2011 Travel Photographer of the Year' at the British Travel Press Awards.

As a kid, Russ Schleipman spent a good amount of time looking at his back yard through a viewfinder. He still does, but the back yard has no borders now, and he doesn’t always come home for dinner. His curiosity has pulled him to every corner of the planet. The images he brings home are the treasures he is most pleased to find.

With the eye of a designer, his images are bold and graphic, testimony to his  acute sense of composition. Russ feels there is no middle ground: it’s right or it’s not. He strives to ease, delight and surprise the viewer’s eye, and to merit the highest of compliments, which is that an image is painterly.

His work has taken him to all the warm continents. Africa has seduced him on many occasions, as have China and France. The French Government Tourist Board is a favourite client. The cold continents are also high on his list.

Barcelona-based Italian photographer and professional traveller Sergio Cattivelli has been across all five continents, visiting hundreds of countries to capture the essence of people, places and landscapes. He fluently speaks five languages, a great help in getting him closer to the people and understanding their cultures.

Thanks to a passion for lighting and his fine-tuned powers of observation, Sergio creates a perfect balance that gives his compositions an evocative and suggestive three-dimensionality.

His work flows from romantic-idealistic landscapes bathed in magical and ancestral light to urban architecture that splits and reflects itself over and over again.

Sergio is available to travel for assignments worldwide.

Email, visit his website, or call +34 93 412 2116 for further information.

Landscapes and locations become unexpectedly challanging when sketched from multifarious and exciting perspectives.

"Travel photography can be unusual, creative, and fun. When time becomes a multi-sensorial experience and colours play with dimensions and geometries, life is interpreted by movement and the results provide vivid communication. To feel a place, to be overrun with the colours of a landscape… this make the difference."

Thanks to the skills achieved by the Simephoto photographers through years of experience, the company's collection can be considered a true and rich starting point for creating effective meaning through images.

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Germany-based photographer Stefan Schuetz is specialised in people, sports and advertising photography. He works internationally for clients including Adidas, Audi, BMW, Beiersdorf, and many more.

The photos featured in this Spotlight are from the book 'Views of Africa', nominated for the German photo book prize. Travelling over 60,000km, Stefan spent nine months driving his Landcruiser through 21 countries. The resulting photos are simple yet intense, full of dignity and beauty that clearly shows a respectful camera distance despite the closeness of the shot.