Travel Photography – Behind The Lens

Hosted By: Steve Davey

Featuring:

Paul Goldstein, Exodus Travels

Scott Stickland, Rough Guides

Lou Siroy, Picture Editor, Times Travel

Angela Scott, Photographer

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.

Scott Stickland, Rough Guides' Design Manager Scott Stickland studied photography at Nottingham Trent before embarking on a career in pictures. Scott has spent a total of 10 years working in picture libraries, publishing houses, independent / niche image suppliers and has finally landed at Rough Guides. Scott is currently responsible for a team that commissions around 40 shoots per year around the world and always enjoys looking at new work and meeting prospective photographers, as he strongly values the relationship between commissioning picture editor and photographer. Scott sells his own work privately and enjoys getting a few images in the odd Rough Guide! The rest of his time is spent thrashing about on a mountain bike wherever he can find a hill.

Angela Scott was born in Alexandria, Egypt and spent her childhood in Tanzania, developing an affinity for the sea that has never left her, recalling happy days beachcombing along the Indian Ocean coastline with her brother David at Dar es Salaam. Together, with her husband Jonathan Scott, they have proved to be a prolific partnership, working together on their delicate pen and ink drawings, collecting material for their books and travelling around the world as wildlife photographers.

Given the chance Jonathan and Angie would spend their days in Africa and their nights in Antarctica (but only during the summer!) where the sun takes forever to set before rising again just a few hours later. Their book Antarctica: Journeys to a Fragile Eden (HarperCollins 2007) celebrates this last great wilderness.

Between 1997 and 1999 Jonathan and Angie travelled around the world presenting wildlife stories for Wild Things, an American television series created by Paramount Productions, visiting Australia, Nepal, India, Indonesia, Alaska, Uganda and Tanzania, to film salt-water crocodiles, one-horned rhinos, tigers, komodo dragons, orang utans, coastal brown bears and gorillas. This was a unique opportunity for them to hone their photographic skills 'out of Africa'.

In 2002 a stunning photograph taken by Angie showing an elephant family drinking in the Luangwa River, Zambia (with a grey heron in attendance), was chosen as the overall winner of the British Gas Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award from more than 18,000 images submitted from 60 countries. This made Jonathan and Angie the only couple ever to have won this competition as individuals.

Angie takes the production stills for Big Cat Week as well as being one of the game spotters. In 2000 Jonathan and Angie were commissioned by HarperCollins to write a trilogy of books on the big cats to accompany the television series: Big Cat Diary:Lion (2002), Big Cat Diary:Leopard (2003), and Big Cat Diary:Cheetah (2005). The three titles are now available in softback.

Lou Siroy, is Picture Editor for 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.