Ashraf Talat - Travel photography
Out of the different genres of photography, travel photography is the most appealing to many. A travel photographer gets a chance to experience places, people, and cultures while doing photography.
And one tries to bring the viewer to the same experience through the photographs. Travel photography is imagery that makes the viewer want to be there, at that place, at that time, experiencing that feeling. It’s any image that makes us want to be there.
Discussion Topics:
- Preparing for the trip of the equipment
- Studying the place and the nature of the people there before traveling
- How to hack and deal with them
- How to make successful pictures in terms of composition that express the place
- Models for several different trips and how to illustrate stories
Ashraf Talat:
Ashraf Talaat is a renowned photojournalist and documentary photographer, born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1967.
With over three decades of experience in the field, Talaat has produced diverse work, including photo essays for numerous magazines such as National Geographic Arabia, Egypt Today, Business, Le Revue, Travel Today, Carnival, and Creative Images in India. He has also worked on several projects with the United Nations.
Talaat has been awarded several accolades, including the Photographer of the Year award at the Venice International Photo Contest in 2005 and two Maulana Azad Gold Medals for his humanitarian and cultural projects in India in 2008 and 2016. He was also nominated as the Goodwell Ambassador for Photography in Africa in 2018.
Published Books
- Ashraf, Talaat. Moments in Our Life. Cairo, 2022
- Ashraf, Talaat. Point of View. Cairo 2011
- Ashraf, Talaat. People Through the Lens. Cairo 2004
- Ashraf, Talaat. Vision. Cairo, 1999
