Travel Photography – Behind The Lens

Hosted by: Steve Davey

Featuring:

Lou Siroy, Picture Editor, Times Travel

Paul Goldstein, Exodus Travels

Steve Watkins, Vivid Planet

Amy Bellew, Wanderlust Magazine

Date: Saturday 2nd February

Time: 2.00pm

Location: Theatre 2

About the Session:

Is photography your passion? Ever dreamt of combining your love of travel and photography to make a career out of it? Join our expert photographers and commissioning picture editors to get a unique insight into how to take great pics, and how to sell them! Award-winning photographers cum travellers will give you some great tips on making sure you get that all important shot…

About the Speakers:

Steve Davey is a writer and photographer whose work has appeared in publications around the world. He is the author of bestselling Unforgettable Places To See Before You Die and Unforgettable Islands To Escape To Before You Die, both published by BBC Books. He also leads photographic tours for Intrepid Travel and is working on a new book on travel photography.

Paul Goldstein, is a photographer, author and guide and has spent much of the last 20 years guiding photographic safaris and expeditions principally in Africa, Antarctica, Spitsbergen and India. Opinionated, fiercely passionate and protective about the wildernesses he loves, Paul is not afraid of courting controversy, but realising that many of his favourite areas are precarious as well as intoxicating, his approach is sustainable as well as rewarding.

Lou Siroy, is Picture Editor of Times Travel and is responsible for commissioning and selecting the images that appear in the Travel section of the newspaper and to ensure that his images reflect destinations and inspire avid travellers to make the right selection. He has been at The Times since 2000 working on T2, Weekend Review and Travel from 2005. He has an MA in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths University.

Steve Watkins is a professional travel photographer and writer. He is the photographer and author of three BBC books from the international bestselling Unforgettable series, which has taken him to over 60 countries over the past four years for Unforgettable Things To Do Before You Die, Unforgettable Journeys To Take Before You Die and the newly published Unforgettable Walks To Take Before You Die. Steve writes a travel photography column for Traveller magazine and his work has been widely published in magazines, books and newspapers, including Wanderlust, Geographical, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail. He also shoots location images for modern day explorer Benedict Allen and has had several exhibitions, including one on Aboriginal artists at the Barbican Gallery. He tutors on travel photography workshops for Traveller's Tales and markets his images via his own website www.vividplanet.com.

Amy Bellew is Picture Editor of Wanderlust Magazine. After gaining a degree in Photographic Arts from the University of Westminster, Amy worked at the Axiom picture library and then joined the Sunday Times Travel Magazine picture desk. In 2006, she became Picture Editor of Wanderlust, where she commissions freelance photographers, liaises with a wide range of picture agencies, and manages the annual Wanderlust Photo of the Year competition, the UK’s longest-running amateur travel photography awards.