Portraiture of places

Travel

Travel photography

The discipline

Travel photography, done honestly, is portraiture of places: patient, curious, and suspicious of the postcard. These workshops move slowly through one region rather than quickly through five, because a place shows its face to people who stay through a market day, a rainstorm, a Sunday.

We teach colour restraint, respectful approach, and the discipline of a daily edit — so the trip produces a body of work, not a camera roll.

Departures

Field notes

Stay long enough to be recognised by the tea seller. Then start.

One place, three visits: morning, weather, and night.

Delete nothing in the field; decide everything at the table.

Questions, answered

How much gear should I travel with?

One bag you can run for a bus with. Every workshop publishes a packing list; all of them fit in eight kilograms.

Do you help with photographing people abroad?

It is half the syllabus: how to ask, in gesture or phrase, and how to accept no gracefully. The photographs that follow a yes are better anyway.

Are these workshops physically demanding?

They are walking holidays with homework. Expect eight to twelve slow kilometres a day, mostly flat, always stoppable.

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